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Jan 2010
Bristol researchers have called on schools to act to make the switch from primary to secondary education less "scary" for children.
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Jan 2010
Vulnerable young people's happiness and prospects are being undermined because too little is done to ease one of the major transitions of their lives - that from primary to secondary school.
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Jan 2010
Society of Merchant Venturers has stepped out of the shadows to try to help revive Bristols education reputation.
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Dec 2009
The opening of Katherine House, the history of Cote and the Robinson family.
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Dec 2009
The Merchants provide 2 million pounds funding for Withywood Academy
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Dec 2009
Members of The Society of Merchant Venturers join with the Prince's Trust to host new mentoring scheme for entrepreneurs
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Nov 2009
The Society of Merchant Venturers is due to hold its special Charter Day Service at Bristol Cathedral on 10 November at 11am.
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Nov 2009
The Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers, Trevor Smallwood, will be attending a plaque unveiling ceremony in Canada tomorrow (Tuesday, 3 November) to mark the 400th anniversary of the country’s first English settlement established by a Bristol Merchant.
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Apr 2009
Businessman and entrepreneur, Louis Sherwood, who died on 26 March aged 67, was a past Master of Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers and had a career that spanned financial services, retailing in the UK and US, and commercial television at the highest level.
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Nov 2008
Trevor Smallwood OBE, has been named the Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers.
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Nov 2008
Bristol Old Vic theatre has presented a replica of a historic silver token to the Merchant Venturers.
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Oct 2008
The Society of Merchant Venturers has presented funding to the St Pauls-based Somali charitable trust, Amana.
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Sep 2008
The Merchant Venturers have handed over the keys to the Merchants’ Academy
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Aug 2008
Business and education form a new partnership
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Jun 2008
Merchant Venturers look to the future
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May 2008
Take a look inside Bristol's newest school
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May 2008
Signing of Colston's Girl's School Academy Funding Agreement. Offer Letters Sent To Pupils
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Nov 1999
Bristol researchers have called on schools to act to make the switch from primary to secondary education less "scary" for children.
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