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What Makes the School Leavers Experience So Important for Students Today

Leaving school is strange. One day you're sitting in a classroom that's been part of your daily routine for years, and then fairly suddenly, it isn't. No dramatic ending, no clean break, just a gradual realisation that something significant is coming to a close. For young people in the UK today, that transition has become one of the most emotionally loaded periods of their lives, and the way they mark it says a lot about what this generation values.

More Than Just the End of Term

It would be easy to dismiss the school leavers period as simply the end of compulsory education. Tick...

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Exeter student celebrates ‘I would for a grand’ competition win

Following an exciting competition run by new social media app Yubl, Nishad Rai, from Exeter University won the top prize of £1,000 after saying he would “get a bikini wax” for a grand.

Nish received the most votes on Yubl for his mad idea. He has already spent his winnings on a blow out with friends at the Hotel Du Vin, thanks to Yubl. It has become the ‘hot app’ of the last few months and continues to grow in numbers exponentially each day.

Yubl breaks the mould of current social apps to make your interaction more like a real conversation – it’s great for groups of...

Student rent prices soar in Exeter

Students at the University of Exeter are facing increased rent payments as on-campus accommodation prices soar ahead for the 2016/17 academic year.

The cheapest accommodation, Moberly House, is set to close in the summer for a new self-catered residence. Students fear this could be the end of affordable accommodation halls.

Phil Attwell, Director of Campus Services at the university said: “The building is in need of some investment… we would like to enhance the facilities on offer by providing high quality accommodation.”

Moberly House is located in Lower Argyll...

How to Find Your Perfect Career after Uni: 5 Ways to the Top

Graduating can be a scary business, leaving university with a mountain of debt and joining the 9 to 5 grind is something not many students look forward to. But if you find the right job earning a proper salary and becoming an adult, functioning member of society after university can be the best time of your life. So here is how you find your perfect career?

#1 Play to Your Interests

Did you enjoy your taking your degree? Not the partying but the lectures, seminars and coursework? If you loved your degree and still find the subject interesting after 3 years of study than it...

Exeter student to represent UK at Global Student Entrepreneur Awards

Tom Charman, a final year student at the University of Exeter, has been given the opportunity to represent the United Kingdom at the World Finals of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in Bangkok, hosted by the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (EO) on 10th May 2016, with his business KOMPAS.

The Annual Competition is open to students who have created and run their own business for at least six months alongside their studies, with the finals hosting 50 finalists from 50 countries around the world.Tom decided to enter the competition after co-founding KOMPAS, an innovative tech-travel...

Pret A Manger celebrates University of Exeter opening

Pret A Manger’s first campus shop was officially opened this week by the company’s Chief Executive, Clive Schlee, and University of Exeter’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Steve Smith. The shop, located in The Forum, opened to customers on Friday 22nd April but held an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday. Guests enjoyed glasses of Champagne and Pret’s signature Green Goodness juices, as well as introductions to the shop’s team members (seven of whom are University of Exeter students). Alicja Hendzel, Manager of the new Pret, said, “Our first two weeks on campus have been phenomenal...

Exeter students debate divorce and social issues

Students from Exeter College honed their debating skills and awareness of legal issues with a debate on divorce and the role of women in modern society organised by young lawyers from a leading local firm. Organised by Exeter-based Stephens Scown LLP’s young marketing group, the debate, which took place on 20 April, centred on divorce and separation and the challenges facing working women who are increasingly important breadwinners in the family as well as mothers. Students debated the topic from both the home maker and breadwinner point of view. Young lawyers from Stephens Scown devised...

Exeter College through to national debating final

Exeter College beat schools from across the West of England and South Wales to win place in final of national schools debating competition for second year running

Last Wednesday, sixth-form students from six schools from across the West of England and South Wales fought it out for a place at the Debating Matters national final to be held at the Museum of London in July. Ultimately, Exeter College, were victorious, having impressed judges with their sharp ideas and broad approach to the topics.

The 16-18 year olds will took part in a series of debates on topics such as...

Composer watches Exeter School perform his piece at Exeter Cathedral

The Exeter School Junior Choir, Middle School Choir and Senior Choir joined together with friends of Exeter School for a wonderful Choral Society concert in Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 March. The concert began with Paul Patterson’s Magnificat, conducted by Director of Music Mr Tamblyn. This was a challenging and exciting piece for the choir to learn; everybody enjoyed perfecting the rhythmic and harmonic complexities, and thrilled by the eight-piece brass band and two percussionists, who added real drive and verve to the music. We were honoured to have Mr Patterson, an internationally...

Chancellor to call for longer school days

Chancellor George Osborne is expected to use his Budget speech to call for an extension to school days.

Schools will be able to bid for funding for extra activities like sport and art.

Mr Osborne's will also pledge that every school in England will be removed from local authority control.

Schools will either have to have converted by 2020 or have an academy order in place by then.

For any school that fails to have a plan in place, the government will take on radical new powers to intervene and ensure academy conversion takes place.

Academy status,...

Exeter School team accelerate into National F1 final

Exeter School's F1 in Schools team, Burning Rubber, has won a place in the National Final of the STEM competition.

The team of six Year 10 pupils took four prizes at the F1 in Schools South West Regional Final held at Exeter University on Tuesday 1 March.

Burning Rubber began preparing for the F1 in Schools competition back in July and eight months later the team, accompanied by Dr Rowland and Miss Offord, have made it into the Final.

The competition was an all-day event, held in the Great Hall at the Streatham campus of the University of Exeter. In the morning, the...

Student Life

What Makes the School Leavers Experience So Important for Students Today

Exeter student celebrates ‘I would for a grand’ competition win

Student rent prices soar in Exeter

How to Find Your Perfect Career after Uni: 5 Ways to the Top

Exeter student to represent UK at Global Student Entrepreneur Awards

Pret A Manger celebrates University of Exeter opening

Exeter students debate divorce and social issues

Exeter College through to national debating final

Composer watches Exeter School perform his piece at Exeter Cathedral

Chancellor to call for longer school days

Exeter School team accelerate into National F1 final

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