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FA Cup Winners Portsmouth have teamed up with educational publisher Ransom and Childline to launch a specially prepared series of football-themed books designed to motivate children who are either reluctant to read or find reading difficult.

Burnley Football Club has teamed up with innovative children’s fitness specialist Gymkids to help young children within the local Lancashire community get the fitness bug.

Schools in Bedfordshire are to be the first in the UK to pilot a new fitness system as part of their PE curriculum that will enable them to row, run or cycle in virtual races against pupils in other schools.

As open source content management hits the mainstream, Squiz announces keynote presentation by Oxford University Library Services on the value of an open source strategy.

The Institue of Risk Management has launced a new qualification, an introduction to the theory and practice of risk management. It reflects current risk management thinking, regulations and practices and how they effect businesses today.

A call to make apprenticeships more ‘demand led’ was announced by Stephen Gardner of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) at the Apprenticeship summit 2008 in London yesterday.

HE Kamalesh Sharma, Commwealth Secretary-General-elect, will provide the opening keynote for the Commonwealth of Learning's 5th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF5) to be held at the University of London 13-17 July 2008.