Education

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...

Students and staff at Isca College are celebrating their best ever GCSE results with 57% of students achieving 5A*-C grades, a 11% increase on last year’s scores.

Results in English and Maths rose, with 66% of students picking up A*-C grades in these subjects.

A significant number of students collecting their results today joined Isca College having made below average levels of progress at their Primary schools. For most, their progress accelerated when they joined Isca College. Their dedication and hard work throughout their time at the school means they leave Isca with...