Exeter School pupils, parents, staff and governors are pleased to announce an excellent set of A Level results, with a 100% pass rate. Thirty-four pupils scored three or more A* or A grades, with almost a quarter - 20% - of all results at A*. 53% of all grades were A* or A, with four out of every five grades - 81% - coming in at A*, A or B. Head Girl Beth Pittman scored two A* and one A grades and plans on having a gap year before studying Economics at Durham University. 1st XI hockey player and a keen singer, Beth was a soloist in the school's Choral Society concert, held at Exeter...
Students from Colyton Grammar School (CGS) have again achieved excellent A-level results, far outstripping the national average for A and A* grades.
Some 66% of students achieved A and A* grades, compared with the national average of 25.5%. Overall, 87.1% achieved grades from A* to B, with the school outperforming its results from last year and bucking the national trend.
Fourteen CGS students obtained an astonishing four A* grades. Nine students are holding offers from Oxbridge and a further five have places on medical and veterinarian courses. In all, some 105 CGS...
QE students achieved above National average for top grades.
Rupert Poole Principal at the Queen Elizabeth’s School in Crediton, said “We are very pleased with the results this year. We have students following the full range of subjects at A level here at QE and 72% of our students achieved A* - C grades and 50% at A* - B. We are delighted that 27% of students received the very top grades at A* - A, an incredible achievement and testament to their hard work and commitment. We have had a number of notable subject successes, from the many subjects I do want to highlight the excellent...
After a year full of highlights, students from South Devon University Technical College (UTC) are celebrating today after receiving impressive A Level and Diploma results.
Newton Abbot’s pioneering technical college opened its doors from 8:30am this morning for the scientists and engineers of the future to collect their exam results.
There is much to celebrate with 71% of Engineering students achieving at least one distinction star, with over two thirds of those achieving either two or three distinction stars, the highest grade in these qualifications. 100% of Scientists...
Exeter College is celebrating another year of exceptional academic results, following the best International Baccalaureate results in the college’s history earlier this summer. Today’s A Level results are also setting new records, with students achieving an overall pass rate of 99.7%, well above the national average of 97.6%.
The success is particularly notable as this is the first year that all A Level results have rested solely on a final exam at the end of two years of academic study, rather than a combination of results achieved over two years.
Two Emergency Medicine doctors at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust are swapping their scrubs for the sea as they attempt to row 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, in aid of Devon Air Ambulance.
Charlie Fleury and Rosie Alterman, who make up the ‘EmergenSea Girls’, are planning to take part in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in December 2020. The pair are both hoping to break the female pair world record for the race, as well as using the row as an opportunity to study the physiology and psychology behind women participating in ultra-endurance sports....
Pupils at a pioneering specialist mathematics school which provides “life-changing” opportunities have achieved some of the best A-level results in the country.
Exeter Mathematics School, which opened in 2014, is one of only two specialist state sixth forms for enthusiastic young mathematicians and scientists in the UK.
A total of 91 per cent of pupils got either an A*, A or B in maths, further maths, physics and computer science A-level this year, with 70 per cent of exams taken at the school graded as A* or A. Almost all – 93 per cent – of pupils got an A* or A in their...
Indie restaurant Rusty Pig has been awarded gold in the latest round of the Taste of the West Awards.
The popular eaterie in Yonder Street received the accolade in the Restaurant category of the awards.
Rusty Pig founder, chef Robin Rea said: “We were quite a late entry into this year’s awards schedule, and the whole team is thrilled that we have been judged worthy of a gold.
“When the news came through, I was at the Folk Festival in Sidmouth where Rusty Pig was the main caterer on the Ham for the first time. I just had to enjoy a glass of Rusty Pig fizz to...
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Stagecoach South West has announced it is continuing the trial of the Exeter plus boundary extension until the end of August.
Extending the Exeter plus boundary, beyond the city, offers a reduction to the cost of bus journeys for passengers travelling to/from Newton Poppleford, Sidmouth and Sidford.
A trial of the extension started on Sunday 14 July and was due to finish on Sunday 11 August, however, in order to give members of the public more opportunity to use the service, the trial has been extended for an additional three weeks, until Saturday 31 August.
