Education

While most young people have been thinking of Easter eggs and Easter bunnies, students at the Centre for the Creative Industries at Exeter College have been welcoming their special Easter gift – that of a life-sized Gorilla sculpture.

The Easter arrival is Exeter College’s support for Paignton Zoo’s celebration of 90 years of conservation, aimed at engaging communities with a mass exhibition of public art to raise awareness and funds to help the Cross River Gorillas of Nigeria –t he world’s most threatened species of gorilla and in danger of extinction, and marks the culmination of...

Teachers in schools across the globe are turning to a new philosophy to help improve the behaviour and well-being of students. Mindfulness, a form of meditation, has been shown to help with a wide range of mental health conditions and improve well-being in adults. However, few trials have evaluated its effectiveness in children.

Professor Willem Kuyken from the Mood Disorders Centre at the University of Exeter is presenting new research findings from a feasibility trial which show how the mindfulness technique is also effective in improving well-being in young people. Speaking at...

Pupils at an Exeter primary are helped to learn by the collaborative ‘can do’ atmosphere throughout the school, according to education inspectors.

And they rate Pinhoe Church of England Primary as a good school on all five key aspects of school life.

They say Pinhoe’s overall effectiveness is good and so is the achievement of pupils, the quality of teaching, the leadership and management and the behaviour and safety of the pupils.

The rating is much improved from the satisfactory grade the school received less than three years ago and since then the school standards...

Bicton College recently announced the launch of the Trefusis Academy, to support students applying to University and managerial roles.

The programme will provide students with the cultural, employability and study skills needed to make the leap from further education into higher level study and employment.

The College has seen a four-fold rise in students applying for much sought after university places in the last academic year – this belies the national trend which has shown a decline in university applications for the second year in a row.

Jenny Tyrrell, Careers...