Education

New figures show that you could buy your child two crucial years of private education for just £7 a day. Brewin Dolphin calculated that parents who save this amount of money from birth could afford the two crucial years of A-level education for their children at a top school.

As recent figures show that the average cost of raising a child has risen to £148,000 from birth to 18, many parents who would like to educate their children privately might find it difficult to juggle their finances. However parents who are concerned by the costs of private education could give their children...

A prestigious education prize has been awarded to an academic from the University of Exeter for a research paper on literacy practices for children with severe learning difficulties. The United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA), an organisation whose sole object is the advancement of education in literacy, selected Dr Hazel Lawson and her co-authors as winners of the UKLA/Wiley-Blackwell Research in Literacy Education Award 2013. The UKLA Journal of Research in Reading and Literacy editors noted that the paper presented a well-argued and robust challenge to established practices in...

Quality and Partnership are the key themes in speeches from lead organisations at the annual Devon Care Training conference, this year titled What I do Matters.

Care providers and commissioners of care are gathering to share best practice, successes and challenges of working in a constantly changing market place where only those that adapt their businesses to provide tailor-made care will survive.

Care agencies from across the south west are invited to attend the What I Do Matters conference at the University of Exeter on Friday 13 September.

The conference is the...

West Exe Technology College is today celebrating its best ever GCSE results and staff and Governors are looking forward to sharing their pride and delight with students when they collect their individual results tomorrow.

A fantastic 65% of students achieved 5 or more GCSEs at A*- C grade including English and Maths and a staggering 92% achieved 5+ A*- C grades. This is even better than last year’s record results when 56% of students achieved 5 or more GCSEs at A*- C grade including English and Maths and 90% achieved 5+A*- C grades. The results are also well above ambitious targets...