The South, West and Wales Consortium, in which the University of Exeter is joined with seven other universities – Aberystwyth, Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol, Cardiff, Reading and Southampton – has been awarded £14.2 million funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) over the next five years to deliver postgraduate supervision, training and skills development from 2014.
The consortium is one of 11 new Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) and seven Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) to have been awarded a total of £164m funding from the AHRC.
Exeter-based leadership and business development consultants Sampson Hall, have unveiled expansion plans including the opening of a new South West office, a bigger team and the launch of an internship scheme in collaboration with the University of Exeter.
Sampson Hall teach leadership and business strategy with a difference - they are ex-Royal Marines who bring the hard won lessons from the battlefield to the boardroom. The company, which also has offices in Newcastle, has expanded its South West arm by moving into new premises at Odhams Wharf in Ebford near Exeter, to accommodate...
Local voluntary support agency Exeter CVS are teaming up with Exeter City FC and the British Council to offer free Active Citizens training to the city’s young people, with an unusual twist.
The 5-day course in November will show learners aged 18-25 how they can engage in social action: making a difference through volunteering, campaigning, or engaging with authorities to improve services and make change. The course provides support to develop and conduct projects on a local, national and international level; following the programme’s premise –“Globally connected, locally engaged...
Solicitors in Devon are being given the opportunity to undertake two hours free accredited CPD training in central Exeter this October.
The event is made up of two sessions - one on Personal Branding for Solicitors and one which gives an introduction to PATLIB, the Patent Library based in Plymouth - and is aimed at an introductory level,
The course is jointly hosted and presented by Social:haus Limited and Plymouth PATLIB with support from the Intellectual Property Office.
Full time solicitors are required to have taken 16 hours CPD by the 31 October each year of...
No matter where you are based throughout the country there is a wealth of talent just waiting to be tapped into and it has never been as readily accessible as it is now!
Just in the last couple of weeks we have attended exhibitions, business gatherings and breakfast meetings highlighting the resources available to businesses, many of which are free to the employer and could serve as a valuable extra pair of hands to growing businesses watching their cash flow that would benefit enormously from some extra assistance at this time.
Exeter Chiefs have been getting stuck into their pre-season programme for a couple of weeks now, but today they headed to the seaside for a different sort of work-out with the club’s conditioning staff.
Whereas much of the initial work has been centered around the club’s Sandy Park, this time the Chiefs playing squad popped along to nearby Exmouth Beach for a series of testing drills.
From sand dune shuttles to grappling, heavyweight lifting to ball work, it seems no pebble was left unturned as Rob Baxter’s team geared themselves up for the new 2013/14 season.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the new headquarters of training charity St Loye’s Foundation was performed on Friday 14 June by the new Leader of Devon County Council, Councillor Bernard Hughes OBE.
The charity acquired its new Exeter city centre premises at Beaufort House on New North Road in January, enabling it to relocate its administrative and training headquarters from its previous, rented accommodation across the road at Brittany House.
Councillor and Mrs Hughes were welcomed by the charity’s Chair, Susan Hobbs and Chief Executive Christopher Knee who...
As the summer approaches, people of all ages have the chance to find out what Exeter College offers them.
The Higher Education and Adult Learning Fair, at Hele Road 4 July, 5-8pm, is the ideal opportunity for people 19 and over to find out about learning new skills, meeting new people and gaining new qualifications, as well as finding out about the university-level courses at the college. Visitors can also find out about the new 24+ loans to help with the cost of some courses.
The college's automotive, aerospace, engineering and construction centres for under 19s are on...
