Student Life

Exeter College students are celebrating after achieving the best International Baccalaureate (IB) results in the college’s history.

This year the prestigious IB saw a 100% pass rate, with almost a third of students (32%) achieving 40+ points. This is the equivalent of five A Levels at A/A*, putting them in the top five to ten per cent of students in the entire world. Two candidates achieved an incredible 43 out of 45 possible points.

Further to this, more than 50% of the students achieved 38 points or higher which is the tariff requested for a place at the University of...

Exeter School Lower Sixth Former Eddy Lister featured on BBC Radio One's podcasts, Life Hacks, talking about his Young Enterprise (YE) team's Mindfulness card game. The YE team devised the game as a way of tackling anxiety and entrepreneurial Eddy contacted the radio station as a way of promoting his product. Lower Sixth Formers James Broderick and James Heard joined YE Advisor Ian McGregor on the trip to BBC Broadcasting House, London, where Eddy was interviewed by broadcaster Katie Thistleton. The YE team - FireDragons - came up with the mindfulness card game to help fellow pupils deal...

Year 12 students from South Dartmoor Community College and Atrium Studio School, part of South Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust, rubbed shoulders with professional artists and crafts people during the weekend of the prestigious Craft Festival held in Bovey Tracey.

Year 12 students from the Art & Design department worked with professional screen printer, Phil Summerscale, during a project which challenged them to run their own commercial stand selling their T-shirt designs. Students also hosted workshops for children interested in learning more about the screen-printing process,...

Homesickness is not a condition you can avoid without causing some irreversible negative effects now or soon in the future. As a simple definition, homesickness is emotional distress that manifests when you feel disconnected from the familiar. This includes people, places, smells, and personal routine.

When you miss somebody, someone, or something bad, your emotional stability is fragile. When you suffer and experience emotional pain, every single aspect of your life will change.

The problem is…college time isn’t really the best moment in life to feel disconnected , lonely...