The latest Wolverhampton school to be transformed by a £270m investment programme has been given the seal of approval by education chiefs. Councillor Claire Darke, the City of Wolverhampton Council's Cabinet Member for Education, toured the new St Matthias School, on Deans Road, recently and saw for herself the stunning new facilities being enjoyed by pupils and teachers.

A plan setting out the priorities for the city’s youth justice service and reviewing the previous year’s performance is to be presented to cabinet. Birmingham has the lowest re-offending rate of all core cities, with an average of 0.92 re-offences, and is below the national average of 1.14. The Birmingham Youth Justice Plan 2015/16 shows that the city is maintaining good performance against the three national youth justice indicators: reducing first time entrants; reducing re-offending; reducing the use of custody.

City of Wolverhampton Council’s James Foster has been shortlisted for the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Apprentice of the Year award in the Midland Area. The Private Sector Housing Customer Services Apprentice from Bilston will discover if he has won at the regional event, at the National Motorcycle Museum on Thursday.

Award-winning education charity Achievement for All has teamed up with Peters Books & Furniture to launch the One Million Minutes reading challenge across the West Midlands, with one triumphant class winning a brand new reading corner for their school worth over £1,000. Primary school classes are being asked to read for as many minutes as they can in just one week, between Wednesday 11^th November – Wednesday 18^th November 2015.

Top employers have been teaming up with Year 11 students from the Stockland Green School as part of the academy’s annual Practice Interview Day.  Community spirited employers visited the school this week to support students in developing their interviewing skills and help build their aspirations for the future.  

Aston University will become the first university to offer its undergraduate students training in how climate change impacts businesses and society, when it hosts Carbon Week 2015 in the first week of November. In a pioneering move, the University will dedicate a week of teaching for all second year undergraduates, across all its schools, to the importance of understanding the challenge of climate change and the requirements of a low carbon economy.