Education

What do you do when your A level results don’t make the grade and you want a career in medicine?

This is the situation Conor Goldsmith found himself in a couple of years ago, but instead of giving up on his on his dream job, Conor started volunteering.

“When my A levels didn’t go as well as I’d expected I had to re-think everything, so I signed up to do BTEC Applied Science at Exeter College. Around the same time I also started volunteering for WestBank. I befriended a lady who had dementia and paid regular visits to offer companionship and alleviate her feelings of...

The thousands of trees at the University of Exeter remove pollution equivalent to emissions from 798 family cars from the atmosphere every year, research shows.

New calculations show the 5,000 trees surveyed, from 328 species and six continents, capture 36 tonnes of carbon annually. They also stop 4,217 m³ a year of water – two Olympic swimming pools – from flooding local rivers and remove two tonnes of pollutants from the air.

The trees provide more than £20,422 of environmental benefits each year and take away from the environment the equivalent of nitrogen dioxide caused...

Blundell's School is delighted to announce another set of excellent GCSE results, which once again exceed the national average despite the recent climate of changing educational pressures. Once again 50% of all grades were at A and A* level, and this year we saw our pass rate rise to a terrific 98%.

Almost a quarter of the year group gained 8 or more A* and A grades and the following have excelled in gaining more than 9 A*/A grades: Victor Mills, Sebastian Albery, Jack Klinkenberg, Marcus Lloyd, Cara Read, Grace Francis, Greg Kitson, Emily Squibb, Will Spencer, Ben Dawson, Joshua...

Staff from Exminster Pre-school recently travelled over 7,000 miles to spend a week visiting Nayamba School in Zambia.

Leah Barnes, Exminster Pre-school Manager, and Michaela Petherick, Pre-school’s Play Leader, were part of a team of 10 local people who went on a self-funded visit to support and develop teaching and learning at Nayamba School, a Community primary school for children in rural Chisamba, Zambia.

Established because there was no primary school close enough or affordable, this free school now has over 290 children attending from the surrounding area. The pre-...