"Although national guidance may be helpful to some colleges, it is more important that each institution develops its own policies that reflect their individual circumstances. A college that has a large number of night classes, for example, will need to take into consideration the particular safety concerns of staff and students staying on site after nightfall.

‘The Lunchbox Challenge' has been created by Cambridgeshire County Council's Personal, Social & Health Education (PSHE) Service with the support of Cambridgeshire Dietetic Business Unit. A key component of the resource is the Top Grub card game developed by Health Enterprise East, the region's NHS Innovation Hub based at Papworth Hospital.

Tarasafe's dense construction and deep inlay of carborundum particles provides permanent slip resistance, making it HSE compliant and ensuring a group T (K5) wear rating with suitability for heavy traffic commercial use. Sanosol® anti-bacterial and fungicidal treatment is incorporated in all products and some have the added benefit of SparClean® surface treatment for extreme resistance to soiling and staining.

When there are students/pupils in a building there is a mess and anyone living with children, especially teenagers will confirm this. You can never get a building spotless during term time but with good time management and work scheduling you can achieve a high standard most of the time. We clean a many schools and colleges, state and independent, for all age groups. No two are the same but all have one common problem - pupils.

This is the belief of Jonathan Hindle, Group Managing Director at KI. "Furniture is a crucial component in creating a quality learning environment," he says. "Seating should be comfortable and durable and work surfaces ought to be able to accommodate specific tasks including note-taking, laptop computer use and conducting experiments. Beyond these functional aspects, the image portrayed correlates to student perception of teachers' performance expectations - an attractive, highly functional, quality environment tells them you expect excellence."

Hamonds is a 750-pupil mixed high school and had been suffering malicious fire alarm activations on an increasingly regular basis, including three in a single day. It was a major issue which needed addressing as quickly and as effectively as possible. Leigh Sharpe, School Support Manager at Hamonds, was given the task of sourcing a solution, one which would provide a long term method of combating the extensive disruption to classes, staff and pupils that the false alarms were inevitably causing through persistent evacuations of the building.

Although we have become used to booking our holidays or doing our banking online - the thought of using the internet to get closer to our children's education is a new one. Most students are familiar with working in cyberspace already - as the majority of schools now have a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) - sometimes called a Flexible Learning Environment - meaning they can access their timetables, homework and lesson notes online.