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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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Hostile takeover research wins ethical Hutton Prize

A University of Exeter Law postgraduate student has been awarded the Hutton Prize for Excellence, which encourages the next generation of young professionals to put ethical conduct at the forefront of business, government and the professions.

Hadrien Chautard has been studying the LLM International Commercial Law programme and is the second postgraduate Law student in a row to win the Hutton Prize. As this year’s winner of the best dissertation demonstrating a commitment to ethical conduct and practice, Chautard won the prize which is a medal containing one troy ounce of solid gold...

How can young people get into the modelling industry?

The modelling industry can be very tough to break into as well as competitive, with young people often asking questions such as: how do I get started? Who do I approach? Do I have what it takes? Lack of confidence and reluctance to venture away from your comfort zone commonly puts people off the fashion industry. But it shouldn’t.

Harriet Isobel is a part time model based North Devon.

After being in the industry for seven months, she has already been published ten times across nine different magazines, as well as modelling for a number of clothing companies such as ‘Hidden...

Youngsters get an insight into Medical School

School children from Devon and Cornwall were given a hands-on insight into life as a medical student as part of a programme designed to encourage Westcountry youngsters to consider a career in medicine. It comes as a report by the Medical Schools Council highlights the need for Medical Schools to engage with schools to address the fact that most Medicine applicants come from a small minority of schools.

The University of Exeter Medical School hosted 27 children from Helston Community College and Torpoint Community College (Cornwall), Petroc College and Ilfracombe Academy (North...

University of Exeter students visit ARRC

Twenty two students and staff from the University of Exeter made the journey to RAF St Mawgan to observe the Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) deployed on Exercise ARRCADE FUSION, 14 November 2014.

The post-graduate students are studying a range of political, civil, military, and diplomatic relations topics at Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute.

One aim of their visit was to see how policy at the strategic level begins to take shape in an operational headquarters in order to be implemented at a tactical level. Walking the ground and seeing how planning...

Student excellence recognised in Exeter

Student excellence at the University of Exeter Medical School has been recognised in an awards ceremony.

The event featured the presentation of two inaugural prizes sponsored by Quintiles, the world’s leading biopharmaceutical service organisation. The celebration, at Reed Hall, Streatham Campus, included the winners of the Quintiles Women in Science Prize and the Quintiles Academic Achievement Prize.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne presented the Quintiles Women in Science Prize to winner Eleanor White during his recent visit to Exeter, as part of his tour on the...

Exeter scoops award for best international student satisfaction

The University of Exeter has been named the best university in the UK for international student satisfaction. The StudyPortals International Student Satisfaction Awards 2014 are based on 16,427 comments made by 6,923 international students in Europe. These reviews provide rare insights into universities’ performance from an international student perspective. The universities included in the award had to have received more than 20 reviews during the last academic year. Institutions were given an Outstanding Student Satisfaction Award if their average rating was 9.5 or higher out of 10. The...

Diwali celebrations to light up the sky

Diwali or Deepavali is the most important festival of the year for Hindus, which is also known at the Festival of Light and is being celebrated at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus on Sunday 26 October. The University of Exeter’s Student Guild Asian Society will be hosting the Hindu New Year festival which is free and open to everyone from the University and the city of Exeter, as a way of providing a cultural experience and an opportunity to connect with the culture and heritage of India. It is also an opportunity to explain the role of the Diwali in which prayers and special...

Students design T-shirt range to support YMCA Exeter

A group of sixth form students from South Dartmoor Community College have helped design a range of t-shirts, all of the proceeds of which will go to supporting the work of YMCA Exeter’s housing projects.

The project is called Good Material and was initiated by Exeter locals Oly Harrison and Charlie Martin. As well as working in their day job for a local marketing firm, Oly and Charlie have created the initiative in order to work with and inspire a generation of young designers, and introduce them to the world of graphic design. The young designers are currently students at South...

Interview experience for Exeter School sixth formers

Exeter School Sixth Formers got a taste of the real world last Saturday when they experienced the first in a series of practice interviews.

The Upper Sixth Formers were interviewed by local and national professionals and Exeter School alumni at Gilbert Stephens LLP Solicitors in Exeter.

Every year, during late September and early October, Exeter School’s Upper Sixth pupils are given the chance to experience a general interview away from school.

Every effort is made to match the pupil to an interviewer with similar interests, for example potential medical students...

Princesshay’s Student Lock In a huge success

Over 5,000 students descended on Princesshay, Exeter between 6.30pm – 9pm on Wednesday 1st October for its annual Student Lock In event. Over 35 retailers and restaurants opened their doors after hours to offer discounts of up to 25% to students for ‘one night only’.

The event has been hailed the busiest and most successful Student Lock In to date for the city.

Wayne Pearce, Princesshay Centre Director said: “It was great to see so many students at this year’s event. We’ve received some really positive feedback from our retailers and restaurants and we’re looking forward to...

Student Life

What Makes the School Leavers Experience So Important for Students Today

Hostile takeover research wins ethical Hutton Prize

How can young people get into the modelling industry?

Youngsters get an insight into Medical School

University of Exeter students visit ARRC

Student excellence recognised in Exeter

Exeter scoops award for best international student satisfaction

Diwali celebrations to light up the sky

Students design T-shirt range to support YMCA Exeter

Interview experience for Exeter School sixth formers

Princesshay’s Student Lock In a huge success

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