There are now 200 organisations working with the University of Exeter on degree apprenticeship programmes, which combine work with part-time study – allowing for on-the-job experience while students work towards a degree qualification.
NHS employees enrolled on newly launched degree apprenticeship programmes in Diagnostic Radiography, Clinical Associate in Psychology and Senior Leader Healthcare during 2020, raising the total number of NHS apprentices to 203 – up from 29 this time last year.
The success comes amid challenging circumstances, with the Covid-19 pandemic...
Devon’s Guides, Rangers, Brownies and Rainbows now have the chance to be recognised for helping to protect the environment with the launch of the new Recycle Devon badge.
The new badge aims to encourage groups across Devon to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. It follows the successful launch of the same badge for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts in 2019.
There are 3768 girls and young women between the ages of five and 18 who are members of Girlguiding groups in Devon.
Guides, Rangers, Brownies and Rainbows will work through a variety of activities and challenges to achieve...
Lord Myners of Truro will retire as Chancellor of the University of Exeter after five years in the role.
Paul Myners CBE, who will be 73 in April and a former Government Minister who has led some of the UK’s best known businesses, will relinquish the role at the end of 2021.
Cornishman Lord Myners, who was brought up in Truro by his adoptive parents, took over the mantle of Chancellor from Baroness Floella Benjamin in July 2016.
Speaking of his retirement from the position, Lord Myners said: “It has been a pleasure and an honour to have served as Chancellor and...
Members of staff at a leading South West strategic marketing agency are celebrating after winning several prestigious clients.
Over the course of the past year, Chalk + Ward, which has offices in Exeter and in London, has acquired a total of 23 new clients, including in recent weeks, Exeter Cathedral, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
The Managing Director of Chalk + Ward, Robert Chalk, says: “We are delighted to be working with two of Exeter’s most iconic institutions and are heartened that during the toughest year imaginable, businesses and public organisations are...
Award winning, chart topping podcast and online TV channel History Hit has announced a new 10 date live tour for Autumn 2021.
The tour, which comes to Exeter's Great Hall on 16 October, will see one of the world’s most celebrated history broadcasters Dan Snow taking his accessible interview style to the stage in 10 cities across England, Scotland and Wales. He will talk to some of our best historians about the biggest stories from the past as well as hear the history of the towns and cities that he visits.
Interviews and show content will also be broadcast on the UK's...
Award winning, chart topping podcast and online TV channel History Hit has announced a new 10 date live tour for Autumn 2021.
The tour, which comes to Exeter's Great Hall on 16 October, will see one of the world’s most celebrated history broadcasters Dan Snow taking his accessible interview style to the stage in 10 cities across England, Scotland and Wales. He will talk to some of our best historians about the biggest stories from the past as well as hear the history of the towns and cities that he visits.
Interviews and show content will also be broadcast on the UK's...
Quay Words is delighted to welcome newly-announced Costa Book of the Year winner Monique Roffey to Exeter as our writer-in-residence during April. Monique’s residency will close the Quay Words Spring ‘Exploration’ season at Exeter Custom House.
Monique Roffey is an award- winning, Trinidadian born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir. Her most recent novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, (Peepal Tree Press) won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2020 and was shortlisted for both the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 and the Rathbones/Folio Award 2021. Her other...
A new cycle camera trial is being carried out by Devon County Council to help improve safety for cyclists.
The County Council has enlisted the help of Ride On, the bike recycling charity in Exeter, as well the Exeter Cycle Campaign, Met Office, RD&E Hospital and Exeter Science Park to try out the helmet-mounted video cameras to capture footage of dangerous driving.
Footage of vehicles passing too close to the cyclists will be uploaded to the Devon and Cornwall Police Operation Snap dashcam portal. Since August last year Operation Snap has received 195 submissions...
Takeaway spending surged by more than 50% a few weeks after the first lockdown. The average Brit used to spend around £12 a month on takeaway, but this jumped to more than £20 a month as more people used takeaways to treat themselves while staying in . One in ten Brits order a takeaway at least once a weekend and more than half of us know exactly which restaurant we fancy before going online to order. With this in mind Fresh Student Living have deep dived into the Takeaway habits of Brits over the past 12 months.
The trend is still growing. In January 2021, Google searches for ‘...
The Government-backed Help to Buy scheme has helped over 270,000 new home buyers since it was introduced in 2013. However, from 1st April this year, the scheme is changing. Emma Cotterill, regional sales and marketing director for Kier Living Western, explains what local buyers need to know.
Help to Buy was introduced to help new home purchasers with deposit funds. Initially open to anyone buying a new home up to the value of £600,000, it enabled purchasers to buy with just a 5% deposit and a 75 % mortgage. The remaining 20% of the purchase price was covered by an equity loan from...
