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      <title>Three Birmingham Schools Granted School-Based Nursery Capital Grant to Invest in Early Years Education</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council is delighted to announce that three local schools have been granted the School-Based Nursery Capital Grant for the 2024-2025 academic year. </description>
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      <title>Birmingham City Council and local college unite to tackle regional construction skills shortage and boost employment </title>
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      <title>Back to school - message to parents and carers</title>
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      <description>Leader of the city council Cllr Ian Ward, and Cllrs Jayne Francis and Kate Booth, have written to parents and carers ahead of the wider return to school.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Letter from Birmingham City Council to Secretary of State for Education</title>
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      <description>The leader of Birmingham City Council has written to the Secretary of State for Education regarding the opening of schools in Tier 4.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2021 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Donations sought as schools IT appeal is launched</title>
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      <description>An appeal has been launched for IT donations to help city school pupils whose education has been affected by the coronavirus lockdown.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Statement on re-opening of Birmingham schools</title>
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      <description>A letter has been sent to parents and school staff about the re-opening of Birmingham's schools.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 11:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Secondary Transfer September 2019 intake - offers as at 1st March 2019</title>
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      <description>Pupils will today find out which secondary school they will attend in September.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Secondary school transfer - offers at 1 March 2018</title>
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      <description>Pupils will today find out which secondary school they will attend in September</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>School closures - Tuesday 12 December 2017</title>
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      <description>The following is a statement on the decision to allow schools to make their own decision on any closures tomorrow (Tuesday 12 December 2017).</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>School closures - Monday 11 December</title>
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      <description>As a result of the current snow and freezing weather, all city council-run schools and related transport services will not operate on Monday 11 December.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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