If your school has undertaken an unusual event, achieved something remarkable, or done anything that you deem to be newsworthy, you can submit the story for inclusion in UK Education News.

UK Education News was launched last term and is now being read by a growing number of parents and those looking for a school for their children.  Last term we got about 5000 stories read on the site each day, and we are expecting this to rise.

What’s more, the story will remain on our web site, so this is not just a short term piece of publicity.  Every time someone searches on the internet for a school in your area and uses any of the words contained in your article, that story will come up and you have a further chance of being read.

To submit a story – and I reiterate everything about this service is free – just follow this route…

1.  Please do take a look at www.UkEducationNews.co.uk and click on one or two stories so that you can see how the system works.  At the moment you won’t find many stories submitted by schools because this is the first announcement of the free offer, but we are hoping to run two or three a day from now on.

2.  Write out your story as a press release in Word.  You can have a link to your school web site in the piece, but you must write this link out in full in the text (don’t embed it within the text).   There is no limit to the length, but you cannot include pictures – only text.

3.  Don’t forget to give us a headline as this is what will appear on www.UkEducationNews.co.uk  

4.  Send the announcement to tony@hamilton-house.com as an attached Word file.  On the subject line please write School News.  The article will appear within a couple of days.  We can’t send you a notification of when it appears, but stories stay on the site for two or three days normally.   The story will also appear on www.schoolsare.us where it will stay permanently.

5. All we ask in return is that you arrange to have a link on your web site or learning platform to www.UKEducationNews.co.uk   Many schools have done this already and they are finding it highly valued by teachers, parents, governors, administrators and managers as a continually evolving source of news.  Indeed many parents who have previously never visited the school web site now do so each day, in order to link into UK Education News.

If you have any questions about the service, please email Tony@hamilton-house.com and write UEN Question in the subject line.  Alternatively you can phone 01536 399 013 or write to Hamilton House Mailings Ltd., Earlstrees Ct., Earlstrees Rd., Corby, Northants NN17 4HH.  You can submit stories to the same address.

Tony Attwood