Education

A brand-new, purpose-built nursery and pre-school will open in Cranbrook, on the outskirts of Exeter, in September.

The Little Pioneers Cranbrook nursery, located on Elm Drive, will open following an £1 million investment by owners, OurCoop, the UK’s largest independent co-operative Society, and offers 100 spaces for children aged from three months to five years.

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Access Creative College has achieved Ofsted's ‘Expected Standard’, recognising that the College is meeting the national benchmark for education quality across the vast majority of its provision. The outcome reflects the quality of education delivered across Access Further Education's creative, sport and apprenticeship programmes, while identifying a single area for continued improvement...

The first phase of a new partnership between IMP Software and ISBL , the central hub within the Centre for Education Operational Excellence , is set to give finance teams a single place to see how each school in their trust is performing against the industry-standard metrics used in ISBL’s Advanced Strategic Optimisation Tool (ASOT) .

ASOT is an independent benchmarking framework...

Author and former Branscombe C of E Primary School teacher KJ Akay (known professionally as Jennifer Akay), 81 is celebrating a breakthrough year in 2026, after her childhood memoir The Fruits of Victory eventually soared to #1 in Amazon’s Regional UK Biographies chart. Recounting her upbringing in post-war Barnsley, the book struck a powerful chord with readers nostalgic for a simpler time -...