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Exeter College Big Band

Event Date: 
22/06/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Exeter College Big Band

Musical Directors: Iorwerth Pugh and Sarah Dean

The Exeter College Big Band returns to its traditional date for their end of year concert. We will be performing a wide range of music from well-established big band charts to soul and popular music. We have, as usual, some wonderful soloists and singers and this year we expect our Music Academy choir to join us in all the fun! The band is full of some of the best young musicians in Devon. We are delighted to be performing at the Barnfield Theatre once more and know that you’ll leave the show with a...

Exeter’s tennis venues have been huge for me, says East Devon tennis ace

By Rob Jennings-May

Young tennis star Jake Harrison has spoken of the city’s recent surge in courts and facilities playing a massive part in the early stages of his career.

The 17 year old – who reached the last eight of last year’s Senior National Student Finals – remarks upon the benefits to both College and University students, as well as the general public in the county’s capital:

“It is huge, I play with people all the way from Ilfracombe, Seaton, and myself from Sidmouth. That’s a large radius and mileage – so having such good courts and academies in Exeter is...

City artists create art from waste

Authored by CALMARE
Posted: Wed, 04/01/2015 - 11:59pm

Picture yourself on a spaceship, hundreds of miles above the Earth. Your journey into the cosmos will last some time - but, you only have a limited number of resources on board for yourself and your fellow space travellers, which, given their scarcity, you need to manage wisely.

As far back as 1966, economist Kenneth E. Boulding envisioned the need for a movement away from what he termed a "cowboy economy“, based on the assumption of apparently boundless resources, to a "spaceman economy". In his essay “The Coming of a Spaceship Earth,” he made the analogy that...

Ofsted hat-trick for Deaf Academy

Students and staff will be bouncing back into the second half of the spring term at Exeter Deaf Academy as the specialist education provider is elated to announce it has been rated as ‘Good’ across the board in its recent Ofsted inspections.

In just over an 8-month period, the Deaf Academy’s School, College and Care provision has been inspected and rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. The third and final inspection to complete Exeter Deaf Academy’s trio of success was conducted in January. Giving only a morning’s notice, a team of two Ofsted inspectors visited the Deaf Academy’s Care...

Green energy career advice for students

National Careers Week event at Exeter College will show the huge opportunities in renewable energy While students all over the UK will be getting advice on their future careers during the ‘LifeSkills National Careers Week’, Exeter teenagers who are interested in a career in renewable energy will be getting the best possible information, thanks to a visit from the UK’s number one solar company. Kevin Ciolino, who has been a solar installer, operations manager and technical support specialist at SunGift Energy, is meeting students from Exeter College on Friday 6 March at Falcon House...

Record number of students graduate

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 10/24/2014 - 10:40am

Around 130 Exeter College Higher Education students will don their caps and gowns on today (Friday 24 October and take to the streets to process through the city for their Graduation Ceremony, which is being held at Exeter Cathedral at 3.00pm.

With the Cathedral providing the stunning backdrop to the formal ceremony, the College’s largest cohort of graduates to date will be joined by over 500 guests to celebrate their achievements at this spectacular event, including the Lord Mayor, representatives of Exeter College and its Board of Governors, VIPs from Devon’s schools, colleges,...

Digital event will inspire next generation

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 10/09/2014 - 11:10am

Exeter College is part of a collaborative group staging Connected Exeter - a digital design weekend - across the city on 18 and 19 October.

Working with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter, along with the Phoenix, the Met Office and the Fab Lab at Exeter Library, the college will stage a number of design-based challenges in its Centre for Creative Industries (CCI) building situated off Queen Street, across the weekend.

The event is open to the public and aimed at young people of secondary school age up to college age...

Exeter Mathematics School officially opens

A prestigious new specialist school, designed to act as a regional centre of excellence for gifted young mathematicians, has been officially opened.

The Exeter Mathematics School, a sixth form school jointly sponsored by the University of Exeter and Exeter College, has been created to meet the needs of Maths students throughout the South West region.

It was officially launched on Friday19 September, when around 50 delegates gathered at the school, located near Rougemont Castle in the heart of Exeter city centre.

Guests at the launch included representatives from the...

Steffan wins prestigious Apprentice Award

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 09/19/2014 - 3:37pm

Steffan Davies has beaten off competition from hundreds of entrants to win the South West Learndirect Intermediate Level Apprentice of the year of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2014.

Steffan has been working at the prestigious Gidleigh Park Hotel for nearly two years. He started by doing an apprenticeship at Exeter College and has now progressed to a Commis Chef.

Steffan, originally from Wales, competed in many competitions including Springboard's Future Chef and through this competition made contact with Michael Caines.

Gidleigh Park is home to the much loved...

Outstanding A Level results for Devon's outstanding college

A Level students and staff at Exeter College, have continued a year of outstanding news with today's announcement of a 99.5% pass rate.

Over 780 students from across Exeter, Devon and Torbay received their A2 results today at the college and half have achieved the high grades A*, A and B grades, enabling them to progress to top universities in the future.

With these results Exeter will continue to rank amongst the country's top Sixth Form Colleges, as illustrated by an impressive 114 A* grades at A Level.

Students taking the very popular traditional subjects of...

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