Education

A team of Exeter Junior School pupils has beaten off strong competition from pupils much older than themselves in a mind boggling competition. Team Omega, made up of Tom Harris-Deans, Bertie Hawkins and James Waddington, took part in the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition aimed at secondary school children up to year 11. Now in its third year, the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition is organised by the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester and celebrates the life of acclaimed mathematician Alan Turing, perhaps best known for his work breaking German codes during World...

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery are to be part of a national programme of pioneering collaborations between artists, museums and audiences.

Thanks to major funding support from Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme, New Expressions 3 (NE3) will bring together 15 museums from across England in partnership with the National Trust and the Contemporary Visual Arts Network.

As part of the programme each museum or heritage site will commission and work with an artist who will produce new work in response to the...

Students at Bicton College this week welcomed a renowned expert in his field, Hugh Angus, to give a talk on ‘How to set up an Arboretum’.

Mr Angus, former Curator and Head of Collections at the Forestry Commission National Arboretum (Westonbirt), now consults for the Sidmouth Arboretum which was launched in 2012. The civic arboretum at Sidmouth is a collection of trees and plants within private and public land in the jurisdiction of Sidmouth Town Council. Its overall aim is to protect woodland heritage, encourage new planting, and provide a visually stunning welcome to the area....

Local community projects are to be recognised as model sustainable development initiatives in a new course offered by Bicton College at Dartington.

This all-new NCFE Level 1 Award in Sustainable Development from Bicton College is scheduled to start on Tuesday 22nd April. It will be a 10 week course, 4 hours per session, every Tuesday with a break for half-term. It is free to anyone over 19 and looking for work, and available to anyone else for a course fee of £250.

As well as the Level 1 qualification, students will learn from a host of pioneering local initiatives, and...