Education

Pupils at St Michael's Church of England Primary Academy in Exeter will be welcomed back to school by a large mythical dragon when they return after the summer break.

The colourful dragon is designed to slow traffic and encourage people driving to be more aware of people who are walking and cycling, to make the space outside the school safer for school children and other road users. The dragon spans the road outside the school and is the first of its kind in Devon.

Sustrans and Devon County Council have been working on this road safety project with the school and local...

QE A-Level students received their results, at the school’s Western Road campus, this morning.

Rupert Poole, Principal at QE said; “QE staff are all very proud of the achievements of our young people today. Our students have faced a difficult six months and they have shown tremendous resilience, a core QE value. Those values will stand them in good stead, and now that the long wait for the results is over, they can concentrate on their future.

Overall we are very pleased with the outcomes for our young people, the vast majority of our students got their university of choice...

After a year full of challenges, students from South Devon University Technical College (UTC) are celebrating today after receiving impressive A Level and Diploma results.

Newton Abbot’s pioneering technical college opened its doors from 8:30am this morning for the scientists and engineers of the future to collect their exam results. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, A Level exams were cancelled this year, so exam boards have instead given out grades based on assessments and rankings supplied by the teachers at South Devon UTC.

There is much to celebrate with 50% of...

Our lives are constantly being transformed by advances in technology and one area where this is noticeable is in education. The way we learn is changing all the time with traditional classrooms, chalkboards, and books being replaced with multimedia syllabuses, remote lessons, and online resource libraries. One of the forerunners in education’s technological revolution was DVD courses which provided teachers and students with diverse, interactive learning options. For years, educational DVDs were at the absolute cutting edge of digital learning, until the phenomenal rise of the internet....