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Parents in Exeter rally against the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Defending alternative education and parental rights

Parents rally against the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Defending alternative education and parental rights #ChildrensWellbeingBill Parents are set to gather on 8th March 2025 in Bedford Street, Exeter (and major cities across England, including London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham). This coordinated rally aims to protest the proposed bill. This deeply concerning piece of legislation threatens educational freedoms and prioritises data collection over children's actual well-being.

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (CWSB) is being presented as a...

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Student part-time jobs online

Student years are remembered for an entire life. One of the main memories is a constant lack of money. Although you are already 18 years old, time does not allow you to combine work and study properly. Sitting at the university desk takes the biggest part of the time. However, nowadays, students have new opportunities. You are allowed to work remotely in your free time. This kind of job is a popular option among students.

The money received will allow you to start an independent life, remove the burden from the parental budget, eat, relax and dress better, and partially gain...

5 tips for candidates of JEE mains 2020 paper

Joint entrance examination or JEE examination is a critical examination for candidates wanting to make a career in engineering. However, all students want to get admission in good colleges and to do this they have to score good marks in the exam. A candidate wanting to come out of the exam hall with flying colours has to keep many things in their mind during the examinations. The following are some of the essential tips for a candidate that wants to score good marks in the examination hall:

Read all questions carefully

It is critical for the candidate to read every...

Exeter Primary School celebrates active travel success

Children and staff from St Sidwell’s C of E Primary School celebrated their Leg it to Lapland win with a visit from mountain bike trials legend Andrei Burton and his team.

Four times British Champion trials bike rider Owen Gawthorpe entertained and inspired the children with his amazing display of bike skills.

During the two week Leg it to Lapland active travel challenge, which took place in November and December 2019, children, staff and parents, earned ‘leg miles’ for every journey they made to school by foot, bike or scooter and by taking part in extra activities during...

Master your English college paper writing skills with these top 5 tips

Writing is hard. Putting together an English college paper can be dreadfully difficult, particularly if you have no idea what you are doing. Thankfully, we have this selection of writing tips for you. Follow these five tips, and we are sure that the quality of your English college paper will go through the roof. These tips really will put you on the way towards scoring the best grade possible.

Plan your college paper

There are a lot of people out there who will just jump into their college paper writing without having a clue what they are writing about. The result? A...

Two West Exe teams in finals of £25,000 tech prize for young people

An app that simplifies text for students with dyslexia and learning difficulties and a robot friend for those with anxiety and autism are just two of the final ideas in the running to win the £25,000 Longitude Explorer Prize.

The prize calls on the UK’s young people to put their ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit to the test and use technology – such as artificial intelligence (AI) – for social good. They have been challenged to create and develop solutions to some of the world’s biggest issues, including climate change, living healthier lives, and an ageing population.

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How to save your time studying

Do you want to manage your studies efficiently being not only an achiever but having fun with friends as well? Then this article is for you.

Sometimes you want to stretch 24 hours a day up to 36 hours so that you can do all the necessary things, but this is beyond control. Life is short and we are all busy with a number of things. We do one thing perfectly by compromising on a number of other things. We study hard and compromise on our family time, we party hard and lose good grades.

Yet, there are many exemplary individuals who know how to save time from studies. They...

National accreditation for Exeter College counselling qualification

Exeter College’s Advanced Professional Diploma in Counselling Theory and Therapeutic Practice has been accredited by the National Counselling Society (NCS), providing professional backing to the Level 4 qualification being offered by the College for adult learners.

The accreditation means that the NCS, one of the country’s leading professional bodies in this area, has signed off on the teaching and learning on the qualification and believe that the course develops students who are safe, competent and ethical to practice counselling professionally.

As part of the...

Financial stress keeping UK students up at night, as one in five get less than 5 hours of sleep

New research released today has found that that over half (51%) of UK university students claim stress or anxiety to be the cause of sleep disturbance, with financial stress a leading cause (44%) - and 1 in 5 students getting fewer than 5 hours sleep each night.

The research, released by student accommodation search engine Mystudenthalls.com , has looked into the quality of student sleep for UK university students and found that the mental health epidemic is seriously affecting students' ability to sleep- with worrying consequences.

With the average annual tuition costs...

Charlie McNamara will be going to study with Harvard in September 2021.

Exeter College Student Accepted at Prestigious American University

An Exeter College student is set to jet across the Atlantic to study with Harvard University after being offered a place with the world-renowned Ivy League university.

Charlie McNamara, 18, is currently in the second year of her International Baccalaureate with Exeter College and, after a lengthy application process, has been one of around just 5% of applicants to be accepted to study with Harvard.

“I was so happy when I found out that I just burst in to tears,” said Charlie, who will be studying for a Liberal Arts degree.

“I logged in to the system to find out and...

Ladysmith Junior School voted as Community Fund winner

Exeter’s Ladysmith Junior School has been voted as the latest winner of RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Community Fund and now has £1,000 to spend on tools and building materials at RGB Exeter.

The school received the most votes following a public poll where it was up against Sidmouth Amateur Radio Society and the UK Wild Otter Trust in Umberleigh.

Ladysmith Junior School has been gifted a Plymouth City Bus, which it’s planning to transform into a useable area for children to sit and have quite reading time during breaks, and for teachers to use with smaller groups...

Student Life

Defending alternative education and parental rights

Student part-time jobs online

5 tips for candidates of JEE mains 2020 paper

Exeter Primary School celebrates active travel success

Master your English college paper writing skills with these top 5 tips

Two West Exe teams in finals of £25,000 tech prize for young people

How to save your time studying

National accreditation for Exeter College counselling qualification

Financial stress keeping UK students up at night, as one in five get less than 5 hours of sleep

Exeter College Student Accepted at Prestigious American University

Ladysmith Junior School voted as Community Fund winner

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