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Exeter College’s Advanced Professional Diploma in Counselling Theory and Therapeutic Practice has been accredited by the National Counselling Society (NCS), providing professional backing to the Level 4 qualification being offered by the College for adult learners.

The accreditation means that the NCS, one of the country’s leading professional bodies in this area, has signed off on the teaching and learning on the qualification and believe that the course develops students who are safe, competent and ethical to practice counselling professionally.

As part of the...

Commenting on the 2020 Budget Mark Simic, partner at Exeter-based Simpkins Edwards LLP, said: “In what was billed as a budget to vaccinate the economy, the Chancellor announced a series of measures to cope with the predicted fallout from COVID-19, which Chancellor Rishi Sunak described as a serious but temporary disruption.

“Alongside an ambitious program of long-term capital investment, a £30bn stimulus package was unveiled. Business owners concerned about staff being off sick and in self-isolation will have welcomed the £2bn set aside to cover the cost of sick pay for up to 14...

If you have started a business, then there's a good chance you have a product or service you know people want. You know there's an audience for it and you have tested it to make sure it does what it is supposed to. But how do you get it in front of those people? That's where marketing comes in and there is no shortage of ways to do this effectively.

There are two main elements to marketing – the ongoing strategies that you create and fine-tune as time passes and data comes in. And the one time elements that you set up and allow to work quietly in the...

Analysts and digital experts have been predicting a sharp rise in remote working and now the rapid spread of Covid-19 is a catalyst for this change as it pushes remote working up the agenda. 

Internet service provider, Airband specialises in rural and hard-to-reach areas and many of its customers already successfully work from home (WFH). 

Airband customer Rebecca Pearse works remotely from her home in Dartmoor National Park for an American software firm. 

“I really enjoy the flexibility of remote working and I think I deliver more as a result of working in this way...