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Devon’s first Women’s Cricket Academy in a state college setting launches

Exeter College has launched Devon’s first Women’s Cricket Academy based at a non‑fee‑paying college, offering an exceptional new opportunity for young female cricketers to develop their cricketing potential alongside their academic studies.

Ahead of a busy summer season the side is actively recruiting new players. This will begin with trials on Thursday 30 April at Buzz About Cricket’s indoor facility in Cullompton, and aspiring players joining the College this September are now being encouraged to register their interest.

Until now, high‑level cricket academies for...

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Banquet marks Academy's second year

Food producers and sponsors joined proud families to mark the end of the second cohort of Michael Caines Academy students at Exeter College with a celebratory banquet reflecting the standard of the many prestigious establishments the students have experienced during their two year programme in the Academy.

And for the first time the talented chefs and front of house students were on the receiving end of world class hospitality as the younger first year Academy students were put through their paces in the training kitchen during the day with the Academy's founder and mentor –...

MP welcomes fairer funding for local schools

Neil Parish has welcomed the Government’s announcement that schools in some of the least fairly funded local areas in the country will benefit from a £390 million cash boost in the biggest step towards fairer schools funding in a decade. The schools budget in Devon will increase by £16.7 million making a real difference to children in Tiverton and Honiton.

Schools in Tiverton and Honiton will see their per pupil funding increase by 4.7% or £194.

Neil Parish MP, who has long campaigned for fairer funding for Devon’s schools, commented: "Children in Devon deserve the very...

Fairer funding for schools in the South West

Schools in the least fairly funded local areas across the South West will benefit from a £390 million cash boost in the biggest step towards fairer schools funding in a decade, Schools Minister David Laws has announced.

In March, the Government announced that it would take action to tackle the unfair and complicated system of allocating local school funding, and launched a consultation on how to deliver an additional £350 million to schools in the least fairly funded areas by setting minimum funding levels.

The Government has published details of how an extra £390 million...

Exeter's Ted Wragg Trust backed to run new Cranbrook school

An Exeter educational trust is being recommended to run Cranbrook’s new two to 16 all-through school.

The trust already numbers Isca, St James and Whipton Barton infants and junior schools among its members.

Named after distinguished Exeter educationist Ted Wragg, the trust is led by Exeter University, Exeter College, Flybe and EDF.

New schools cannot be set up by local authorities but have to be run by sponsors.

Following a comprehensive public consultation, Devon County Council will now recommend Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to appoint the trust to run...

Tougher tests will help eradicate illiteracy and innumeracy

New tougher primary school tests in maths and English will further the government’s objective of ensuring nobody leaves school without being able to read or write and with a solid grounding in maths, Education Minister Elizabeth Truss said yesterday (Monday 14 July).

Sample questions for the tests taken by seven-year-olds and 11-year-olds - in maths, reading, and grammar, punctuation and spelling - reveal the higher standards expected of children in the 3Rs.

The new tests will come in from 2016, reflecting the greater demands of the rigorous new curriculum, which will be...

Schools plan to work more closely together to enhance pupils' education

Three East Devon schools are launching an exciting educational partnership to enhance their pupils’ learning. The governors of Farway Primary School have decided to join the successful Jubilee Federation which currently consists of Broadhembury and Branscombe primary schools, which have been working together since 2011. The three schools say the partnership will help to maintain high standards in teaching and learning and enhance pupils’ overall educational experience as well as strengthening their financial position. It will be a unique and specialist partnership as all three schools are...

Success for Rokk Media at Big Bang South West 2014

The South West’s leading scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians were recently brought together for the Big Bang South West 2014 Fair, held at the University of Exeter on Thursday the 26th June 2014.

Designed to provide an innovative careers event, the fair aimed to introduce young students to the wide variety of careers available across Scientific, Engineering and Mathematical disciplines. The young technologists and scientists of the future were treated to an enjoyable day featuring elements of theatre blended with immersive learning experiences.

The fair...

Exeter schools make noise at The Big Bang

Exeter’s next generation of scientists, creators and technologists were rewarded for their ingenuity with a string of prizes at The Big Bang South West awards ceremony last week.

The annual fair, which showcases STEM projects from schools and colleges across the west country and offers winners the chance to compete for major national awards, was held for the fourth year running at University of Exeter on Thursday 26 June.

And, following a day of intense competition, with 130 projects from 450 students being judged by a panel of 85 experts, schools and colleges from the...

Sixth formers launch camera into space

Exeter School sixth formers have successfully launched a camera into space where it took hundreds of photos of earth from 82,000ft.

The camera was carried by helium balloon into the stratosphere in a joint project between the School's Physics Department, Electronics Department and Crossing Club on Monday 30 June.

Funded by the Exeter School Parents' Association, the aim of the Exeter School Space Photo Project was, quite simply to take photos from the edge of space.

Dr Houghton, Head of Electronics, explained: "Planning started last September when pupils researched...

Okehampton College wins national green energy competition

Okehampton College has won a national competition which recognises the school’s cutting edge Green initiatives.

The prize is a £150,000 energy makeover from British Gas.

Okehampton was chosen from six finalists nationally in the secondary school category.

It will donate £25,000 of the prize money to the runners-up – Fulham Cross in London – to help support their own energy projects.

The school is planning to use the prize to install a second biomass heater to warm the older buildings on site.

The college’s community energy manager, Keith Webber, said...

Education

Devon’s first Women’s Cricket Academy in a state college setting launches

Banquet marks Academy's second year

MP welcomes fairer funding for local schools

Fairer funding for schools in the South West

Exeter's Ted Wragg Trust backed to run new Cranbrook school

Tougher tests will help eradicate illiteracy and innumeracy

Schools plan to work more closely together to enhance pupils' education

Success for Rokk Media at Big Bang South West 2014

Exeter schools make noise at The Big Bang

Sixth formers launch camera into space

Okehampton College wins national green energy competition

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