Since its launch in 2000, the Birmingham Grid for Learning website (www.bgfl.org) has strived to provide a range of high quality information and resources to support learning across the city. The development of the site was a requirement of the...

There'll be no App of the week and video of the week during the Summer break. Happy holidays, everyone!

What happens when you invest in your talent? The inspiring Sir Ken Robinson explores gymnast Bart Conner's story at the London Business Forum.

BGfL will be featuring a video each week which can expand the teaching and learning...

In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world,...

In a world preoccupied by success, these two young people talk openly about embracing failure, and see it as a useful stage for learning and progressing.





BGfL will be featuring a video each week which can expand the teaching and learning...

Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he...

Tavi Gevinson is editor-in-chief and founder of RookieMag.com and writes thestylerookie.com. Rookie, a site for teenage girls, broke one million page views within five days of launching in September of 2011. Here she talks about her experiences...

App of the week and video of the week will both return after the half term break (w/c 20 February 2012). In the meantime, enjoy the school holiday!

How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.



BGfL will be featuring a video each week which can expand the teaching...

Harry Moseley was a schoolboy from Birmingham, who became well known for his amazing fund-raising for charity (Cancer Research UK).

Birmingham's Free Radio station (previously BRMB), is campaigning for Harry to be remembered by having a star...