Education

Even more employment opportunities have been made available to Newton Abbot’s young engineers as a pioneering technical college has announced a new partnership with Babcock International.

South Devon University Technical College (UTC) has announced Babcock as its latest employer partner. The Aerospace and Defence company, which serves highly regulated markets such as defence, emergency services and civil nuclear, will now help shape the curriculum, provide Challenge Projects and offer work experience to ensure South Devon UTC students are ready for work when they finish Year 13....

Exeter School features as number 103 in a list of the top 400 independent secondary schools in the 2020 edition of The Sunday Times Parent Power.

The co-educational independent school for 7-18-year-olds maintains its ranking as the top independent school in Devon.

Read Exeter School’s profile in the Parent Power table online .

The league table of top 400 independent secondary schools can be read on the Sunday Times website .

Head Louise Simpson said: “There is no doubt that this term has been like no other, and it is right that our brilliant Exeter...

Exeter College has today announced the launch of a new Student Covid Charter, created in collaboration with students, to ensure the continued safety of students, staff and the wider community.

The Student Covid Charter provides an eight-point plan, which has been created and agreed with students from across the College, that lays out clearly the expectations of learners when conducting themselves at College and when interacting with the wider community.

The Charter builds on the College’s stringent COVID safety measures it has had in place since the start of the pandemic...

Pupils from all four schools in Devon’s Cornerstone Academy Trust took part in the sixth annual Microsoft Global Learning Connection on 10-11 November. The event brought together students from all over the world in a variety of online activities designed to build as many global links, and accumulate as many virtual miles, as possible in just 48 hours.

Renowned for their use of digital technologies in teaching and learning, Broadclyst, Westclyst, and Monkerton Community Primary Schools in Exeter, and Yeo Valley Primary School in Barnstaple, involved their students from Reception to...