Education

Jobless young people in Exeter and East Devon are being offered free training that could lead to a guaranteed work experience position.

PGL Training of Exeter is preparing to run two-week employment skills courses to anyone aged between 16 and 23 who is currently not in work, education or training. And if they complete the course satisfactorily they will be offered a guaranteed work experience placement in the local area. The courses are due to start on Monday, February 3.

PGL Training director Andy White said: “Nationwide, there are more than one million youngsters who are...

Pupils from three church Primary Schools in Devon have been busy this christmas due to taking part in The Big Crib Project.

The Big Crib Project, organised by the education department of the Exeter Diocese, aims to strengthen links between church primary schools and parish churches.

To strengthen this link schools Lady Seaward's C of E Primary School, Offwell C of E Primary School and Brixton St Mary's C of E Primary School are enlivening their parish churches by creating life size models of the nativity scene.

As well as creating life size models of the navity...

On Thursday 12 December, Exeter School’s Sixth Form girls played a charity football match to raise money for the school’s charities with the Lower Sixth beating the Upper Sixth 2-0. Since mid-November, pupils, parents and teachers have raised an astonishing £4,700 through cake sales, mufti days, Movember and collections at the schools’ Advent service and carol concert. Every year, Exeter School pupils from both the Junior and Senior school help select a number of local and internationalcharities for whom they raise funds and awareness. This year’s charities are Children In Need, Shelterbox...

Students from Exeter Deaf Academy shared their aspirations, from living independently in their own home and attending university to being the first deaf Prime Minister, when attending at a national conference on Tuesday, National Day for Disabled People. The conference aimed to gather views from students of different specialist colleges about why specialist colleges are important and appropriate to them and how they might promote this to potential students in the future.

Exeter Deaf Academy, along with five other specialist colleges, told Natspec how they loved their specialist...