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Find World Book Day costumes for free in Devon libraries

Libraries Unlimited is partnering with Recycle Devon to bring World Book Day costume swap rails to 15 libraries in Devon. World Book Day 2026 is Thursday, 5th March and library swap rails are running from 16th February to 8th March. Customers are invited to donate outgrown, unwanted children’s costumes in good, wearable condition. Costumes will be available to take home for free!

The World Book Day costume swap rails follow on the back of the hugely successful Halloween costume swap which ran last year. The costume rails are easy to use, simply visit the library to pick up a...

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Royal approval for Exeter School pupils

Three Economics A Level pupils from Exeter School have been highly commended in the prestigious Royal Economics Society Essay competition.

Max Brewer, Matthew Hills and Charlie Holmes wrote essays on one of six different topics, competing against over 1,600 entrants.

Upper Sixth Former Max was placed on the shortlist of final entrants, putting him in the top ten for his essay entitled: ‘Promoting growth and fighting poverty should be the priority in the developing world, not reducing greenhouse gases’.

Matthew Hills wrote an essay on the same topic for which he was...

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Open weekend at Devon's newest school

Authored by BelindaD
Posted: Thu, 09/11/2014 - 4:33pm

Teens with an interest in high-flying careers as architects, interior designers and structural engineers can meet the team behind a new specialist school opening next year in Ashburton at the town’s Food Festival this weekend.

Called Atrium Studio, the new government-funded school will offer students aged 13-18 an education focusing on the professions within the Built Environment, and will be the first offering this specialism in the South West. Construction of the £3.7m state-of-the-art complex – designed by the award-winning Satellite Architects – will begin in January 2015 on a...

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Exeter pupils to design dream rugby shirts

A group of pupils from Isca School and St James School will be taking part in a workshop where they will design their school team’s rugby shirt, to be produced and donated by Canterbury, the official kit supplier to England Rugby and the Official Partner to All Schools.

The Canterbury kit design workshops are part of the All Schools programme which was launched in 2012 by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) in partnership with the Rugby Football Foundation.

All Schools is a programme to help more state secondary school children play rugby and to encourage new players to join...

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New school recruiting brains of the future

Tomorrow’s scientists and engineers can now apply for places at the county’s newest school, the South Devon University Technical College in Engineering, Water and the Environment, which opens its doors to the first intake of students this time next year.

The innovative UTC has been established by the University of Exeter and South Devon College alongside key local and regional employers, to provide a specialist secondary education for young people with a flair for science and engineering. It aims to help the region’s top students become as ‘work-ready’ as possible.

The UTC...

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New School Begins Recruiting Scientists and Engineers of the Future

Tomorrow’s scientists and engineers can now apply for places at the county’s newest school, the South Devon University Technical College in Engineering, Water and the Environment, which opens its doors to the first intake of students this time next year.

The innovative UTC has been established by the University of Exeter and South Devon College alongside key local and regional employers, to provide a specialist secondary education for young people with a flair for science and engineering. It aims to help the region’s top students become as ‘work-ready’ as possible.

The UTC...

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Pupils get a taste of life at the RD&E

Thirty-six pupils from schools across Exeter visited the RD&E for their Work Observation Week to make a first step towards their future career.

The annual programme gives young people in Year 10 and above the chance to find out how the RD&E works and to consider the many different jobs the NHS has to offer.

A highlight of the programme was the ‘mock ward’ exercise in the RILD Clinical Skills rooms, which gave pupils the opportunity to experience how a real-life ward is run. By acting out the roles of doctors, physios, OT, nurses and housekeepers alongside RD&E...

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Exeter University offers free business course

A new initiative, due to launch in September, will allow anyone in the South West or anywhere in the world to study business for free at the top ten ranked University of Exeter Business School, thanks to a collaboration between global accountancy body ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and online learning platform FutureLearn.

Together, they are launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Discovering Business in Society – which is free to study and open to anyone in the world with access to the internet. The aim of the eight week course is to give anyone...

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All time high GCSE results for Exeter School

Exeter School pupils, parents and staff are celebrating another round of consistently good GCSE results which have set two new records in excellence.

51.3% of all grades were A*, beating the School's record of 47.1%, and a record 82.5% were A* or A grades, compared to last year's 80.3%.

99.3% of grades were A* - C.

There were many high achievers across the range of 19 subjects with 71 pupils achieving eight or more A* or A grades.

Thirty-nine pupils scored 10 A*/A grades.

12 pupils scored ten A*s. These highest individual achievers included Pinhoe...

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Outstanding A Level results for Devon's outstanding college

A Level students and staff at Exeter College, have continued a year of outstanding news with today's announcement of a 99.5% pass rate.

Over 780 students from across Exeter, Devon and Torbay received their A2 results today at the college and half have achieved the high grades A*, A and B grades, enabling them to progress to top universities in the future.

With these results Exeter will continue to rank amongst the country's top Sixth Form Colleges, as illustrated by an impressive 114 A* grades at A Level.

Students taking the very popular traditional subjects of...

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Record breaking results for Exeter School

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 08/14/2014 - 12:00pm

Exeter School pupils, parents and staff are celebrating a record year for A Level results with an overall pass rate of 100% for the eleventh year in a row.

24% of all grades were A*, a record 66% of grades were either A* or A and a record 89% of all grades were A*, A or B.

41 pupils - almost half of Exeter School's Upper Sixth - achieved more than three A*/A grades this summer.

Among the high achievers, there were five who secured four A* grades each.

These top scorers are Jonty Bradley-Thrush (Maths at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge), Gwyneth Everson...

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