Education

Dartington is delighted to announce a dynamic new partnership with Hospital Rooms to offer residencies for students on its MA Arts & Place to explore their arts practice in professional mental health settings.

Hospital Rooms, whose mission is “to bring world class art and creative programming to mental health hospitals,” will host and mentor selected postgraduate students later this year for artist residencies in Cornwall.

Students will be invited to create new work in response to a project that Hospital Rooms is currently undertaking in collaboration with Cornwall...

Exeter University is providing a free online teaching resource on climate change and sustainability for Key Stage 2 pupils across the county, recorded by the university’s neurodivergent geographers, aiming to raise awareness of neurodiversity.

Neurodiversity refers to diversity in the human brain and cognition, and recognises that we all think, move, process information and communicate differently. It is estimated that around 1 in 10 people across the UK are neurodivergent , however, all humans vary in terms of our neurocognitive ability. Neurodivergent can be used as a term to...

The University of Exeter has been twinned with a counterpart in Ukraine through a national programme that is striving to safeguard higher education in the European country.

Joint research projects, academic exchanges and the provision of English language courses are some of the opportunities that will now be explored through the collaboration with King Danylo University.

Orchestrated by Universities UK and the Cormack Consultancy Group, the twinning initiative pairs together universities with complementary profiles from the two countries, helping to restore the Ukrainian...

A new report commissioned by Exeter-based IMP Software has highlighted “very opposing views” among Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) leaders around centralising functions, GAG pooling and top slice mechanisms as trusts are directed to step up their efforts to expand.

The 2030 MAT Growth Challenge: Effective Strategies and Systems offers expert insight on how trusts can grow effectively to at least 10 schools or 7,500 pupils. It includes the perspectives of those who have already hit that target set out in the Schools White Paper and smaller MATs who are starting their growth journey. It...