Student Life

School’s from across the south west gathered at Newton Abbot’s pioneering secondary school, South Devon University Technical College (UTC), to go head-to-head in a special Formula One challenge.

Students from The Crypt School, Exeter School, Colyton Grammar School, Churchdown School Academy, The Castle School and North Somerset Engineering and Technology College, came together at South Devon University Technical College (UTC) to take part in the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge.

Raising awareness of STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and Formula One amongst...

Exeter College today announced that a record breaking 24 students are holding offers to study at Oxford and Cambridge starting in 2018. A total of 17 students have been offered places at Oxford and seven at Cambridge in a diverse range of subjects from Medicine to Law. An outstanding five students were offered places to study Medicine at either Oxford or Cambridge, two of the most sought after medical programmes in the country. The successful students are from all corners of Devon and beyond, from a variety of schools. A remarkable 71% of students from Exeter College who were invited to...

New research is shining a light on the changing face of graduate jobs, revealing that 41% of students studying in the South West leave their studies wanting a purpose-led career that lets them give something back to the world. The job market is also looking more competitive, with 74% of students in the South West believing that they’ll face more competition than their parents’ generation when it comes to getting graduate jobs.

The research, which was commissioned by Shell Ideas360, a programme fostering innovation, spoke to more than 1,100 UK university students. The results for...

Every class at Stoke Hill Junior School worked hard and had fun learning about road safety during this year’s Road Safety Week campaign (November 20-26, 2017).

Their challenge was to think about how to make the roads around their school safer, and to create a poster promoting road safety.

The national awareness week is the flagship event of Brake, the road safety charity, and has been running for 20 years. The theme, Speed Down Save Lives, was chosen because speeding remains a huge problem in the UK; the risk of injury increases massively with impact speed, and speeding is...