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A consortium featuring the University of Exeter has been awarded £3.7m in funding to develop a suite of postgraduate conversion courses in AI and data science.

The Institute of Coding (IoC)​ consortium, which includes 11 Higher Education institutions, has received the significant funding boost from the Office for Students, it was recently announced.

The move is in response to a shortage of skilled graduates and accelerating demand in the area of data science and AI. The Government's Digital Strategy predicted that within 20 years, 90 per cent of all jobs will require...

A new test which could detect whether people who have had COVID-19 are still infectious is under development, thanks to funding from Animal Free Research UK.

The charity is providing funding of £52,000 to Professor Lorna Harries at the University of Exeter, who is developing a test that will aim to detect how much active virus an infected person is harbouring – known as viral load. Unlike current tests, which do not separately measure the inactive (non-infectious) and the active parts of the virus, the team is refining a test that could tell users not only whether they are...

NSPCC fundraising colleagues in the South West of England will be taking on their own challenge as part of the 2.6 Challenge that’s being launched this Sunday to help charities raise money at a time when funding has dropped significantly.

The NSPCC, which relies on public support for 90% of its income, would have had 500 supporters taking on the 40th London Marathon this Sunday, pushing themselves around the 26.2-mile course to raise money for #TeamNSPCC.

Supporter Fundraising Manager for the region, Caroline Morgan said: “The London Marathon raises around £1.2million...

As an Air Ambulance charity whose mission is to relieve sickness and injury in and around the county of Devon, you wouldn’t have thought that Devon Air Ambulance would have much cause to deal with a company specialising in theatrical special effects. But that is exactly what happened just a few weeks ago when they were approached by Luminous Show Technology based in Devon.

Luminous had found a way to completely diversify from their usual business and realised that some of the ingredients they used on a day to day basis would enable them to join the challenge in supplying the...