Education

A Maynard School six former, Lucie Rising (17), has gone all out to improve her career prospects in the cut-throat fashion industry with an almost sell-out charity fashion show on Thursday, 8 October 2015.

A keen designer and with a family history of fashion, Lucie has organised every element from its initial concept around the kitchen table to a show that has captured the imagination of so many of her peers at the school.

“I’m thrilled by the reaction from everyone and the whole of the Senior School is right behind me to make this a success for my chosen Charity, Plan UK...

Young people are taking part in a unique outreach project in which they are leading and participating in a scientific research project on chemicals in plastic food packaging.

Teenagers in Devon are being mentored by experts at the University of Exeter, and gaining first-hand experience of all aspects of scientific research, from project planning to public engagement.

Funded by the Wellcome Trust and supported by the NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility, the citizen science project will see the Year 12s design a study to assess the effects of reducing consumed levels of a...

To celebrate Exeter’s Host City status in the Rugby World Cup, Princesshay has invited eight local schools from across Exeter and surrounding villages to take part in its Rugby Team Scarecrow competition.

Each school has been designated a team which is playing at Sandy Park in the Rugby World Cup, plus England, South Africa and Wales. Pupils have been set a challenge to use that team’s colours to fashion a bright and colourful decorative scarecrow to represent their chosen team.

Andy Littlejohns, operations manager at Princesshay said: “We wanted to become involved with the...

Bath Spa University and University of Exeter have joined forces to revive public interest in the natural history of the Devonshire coast.

‘Science at the Seaside: Pleasure Hunts in North Devon’ is a collaborative public engagement project between the two universities.

It seeks to increase public awareness of the rich history of nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing about the North Devon coast, and the role that figures such as George Eliot and Philip Gosse, among others, played in the growth of popular interest in science and natural history in the period....