Student Life

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...

Exeter School Choral Society Concert 2016

Exeter School is looking forward to performing three contrasting pieces for the annual Choral Society concert held at Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 March. Made up of current and past pupils, parents and staff, Choral Society will perform Fauré’s Requiem, a favourite within the choral repertoire, featuring a solo from music scholar Rebecca German who will sing the famous In Paradisum. New to many performers and audiences will be contemporary composer Paul Patterson’s Magnificat. The piece is a real showcase for the glorious combination of choir and brass, and will provide a stunning...

Blog: Student Life #10

One place arguably essential to student life, wherever you’re at university, is a good pub. I’m not a heavy drinker, I’m probably the lightest drinker possible to still be classes as a “drinker” so I don’t mean students need a good pub to get drunk, just to have a relaxed environment for socialising with friends.

The Victoria Inn, aka The Vic, can be found on Victoria Street; that’s not too hard to remember. With reasonably priced food and drinks, a friendly atmosphere and a location close to most student housing, it’s the ideal pub for students. The Ram on campus is okay but if...

Student Life #9

You arrive at the University of Exeter and there’s one trip everyone wants to make as soon as possible – a day out in Exmouth. However, trust me when I say that there’s a better beach to visit.

Yes, okay, one of the main reasons I chose Exeter was so I would be in closer proximity to the sea. I’d lived eighteen long years of my life in landlocked Birmingham and had been teased by family holidays and my time spent in Bangor, Northern Ireland, to live closer to the waves. They’re just so peaceful and pretty and… You get the idea.

Whether your find the sea as magical as I do,...

Student Life #8

In a recent article by Razz Magazine, the University of Exeter’s Arts, Culture and Lifestyle mag, Devon Coffee was crowned the favourite coffee shop in Exeter and so, obviously, I had to go and see what all the fuss was about.

On first impression the café looks very narrow, almost claustrophobic. However, once I’d ordered a coffee and taken a seat I realised I’d mistaken claustrophobia for a charming setting. It’s unlike any other coffee place – it’s a warm, cosy, gently lit space in comparison to the bright commercial chains most of us fall into the habit of visiting.

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Exeter student secures placement at world renowned pharmaceutical company

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 11/19/2015 - 10:56pm

A budding student researcher is among the first from Exeter to secure a prestigious undergraduate placement at the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company.

Adam Harris, a BSc Medical Sciences student from the University of Exeter Medical School, has obtained a one year industrial placement at Eli Lilly’s UK base in Surrey.

Medical Sciences is a full-time undergraduate programme that incorporates an optional research placement year for students to get practical experience within a professional working environment. The programme is developed in consultation with industry...

Exeter Provost joins high-level taskforce to tackle harassment on university campuses

Professor Janice Kay, Provost of the University of Exeter, has accepted an invitation to join a high level taskforce designed to address all forms of harassment on University campuses.

The influential taskforce, set up by Universities UK, will explore what more can be done by universities across the country to prevent students from becoming victims of harassment and hate crimes on campus.

The taskforce has been established following a request from Jo Johnson MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, in September 2015.

Professor Janice Kay commented: “I am...

Exeter project to monitor space weather events

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 11/16/2015 - 10:04pm

University of Exeter students are leading a project with the Met Office, British Geological Survey and Lancaster University to better understand space weather events and the prediction of their impacts.

Space Weather is caused by large eruptions on the Sun which can have a dramatic impact on technology including communications, energy supply and satellite operations as well as affecting radiation levels and exposure.

Based at the historic Normal Lockyer Observatory in Sidmouth, the third year students of Natural Sciences are working with Dr Suzy Bingham from the Met Office...

Blog: Student Life #7

If you’re not a football fan, that doesn’t matter. Keep reading.

Exeter City faced Crawley Town on Saturday in a tense game that Exeter looked to be winning 2 – 1 until the final minutes of play when Crawley managed to squeeze in an extra goal, leaving players and fans devastated at the 2 – 2 draw. Theoretically, Exeter should have won. However, from the perspective of the live crowd it was clear that Crawley deserved their equaliser; it was a miracle they hadn’t scored their second goal earlier.

Football fan or not, a trip to St James’ Park is essential for any student...

Top author visits Exeter School

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 11/12/2015 - 5:15pm

Carnegie Medal winning author, Tim Bowler, visited Exeter School on Wednesday 4 November to deliver creative writing workshops to all Lower Fifth classes.

Tim is renowned for his psychological thrillers for young adults and he challenged pupils to consider an imaginary place in which something reasonably believable, yet strange or unexpected, happens.

Using this method, which he sometimes employs in his own work, some amazing and wonderful stories were rapidly emerging. Pupils volunteered to read out their work, which proved to be imaginative and often enticing, and were...

Student Life #6

Flashback to a month ago when my boyfriend Patrick convinced me to head down to the Exeter fan zone and immerse myself in the Rugby World Cup. Now, four weeks on, I’ve watched Ireland beat France and lose to Argentina, seen Wales lose to South Africa and Argentina lose to Australia and, finally, New Zealand win the world cup.

Brought up a Birmingham City FC supporter with no knowledge of rugby, I’ve seen my whole outlook on the sport change under 2015’s world cup – for the better I must add.

That’s why Patrick and I headed down to Sandy Park to watch the Exeter Chiefs play...

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