Student Life

The sale of red roses for Valentine's Day at Blundell's School has raised more than £390 for the Devon Air Ambulance Trust. In what has become a tradition, Year 12 girls in North Close House at the school organise an initiative where, for a small fee, pupils write a message on labels which the girls then tie onto the roses.

They then deliver the blooms to the lucky recipients, thus guaranteeing the anonymity of the givers. DATT is the North Close girls' charity for the year and they will be raising more funds at other events.

Last year, pupils at Blundell's raised more than...

The Right Hon Lord Neuberger, President of the UK Supreme Court, has visited the University of Exeter to meet staff and students.

Lord Neuberger’s informal visit came following an invitation from student Ammar Khan, who spent time shadowing him earlier this year. He asked to meet students during his time at the Streatham campus and spent an hour answering their questions on a wide variety of topics, including how to create a more diverse group of judges, the pressures faced by the judiciary and media coverage of court cases.

He met separately with undergraduates and...

Pioneering work by a University of Exeter researcher will see the principles behind video games used to expand what visitors to the city’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) can learn and see.

Work has started on a three year project to build upon the features which make video games so engaging, such as challenges and working towards goals, to help enhance the popular exhibits at the RAMM.

Sofia Romualdo, a PhD student at the University of Exeter, will bring “gameful design” to the work of the museum. Sofia’s University of Exeter supervisor is Professor...

In the first half of 2015, £3.8 billion was invested in student property in the UK and it’s predicted that this will rise to £5.7 billion by the end of the year - nearly equal to the last three years combined.

As the market goes from strength to strength, the demand for growth continues to increase. There are rising numbers of UK students, and figures are predicted to double in the next decade. A huge number of international students are also attracted to our educational system; 18 percent of the UK student population are international and a 50 percent growth has been seen over the...