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Exeter MP supports biodiversity improvements in schools

Exeter MP, Steve Race, visited Bowhill Primary School on Friday 27th March 2026 to show his support for Little Green Change's Biodiversity in Schools Project, which provides free environmental education and biodiversity improvements to state-funded primary and secondary schools in Devon, Dorset...

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Devon schools make national finals of the Big Bang Competition

Students from two schools in Devon are among those named as national finalists of the popular Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition .

This year’s finalists include:

West Exe School with the project ‘Project mAVES’ - a sustainable urban air mobility system - from Tobias Frost, Laila-Rose Hutt, Tom Ryder, Stanley Thomas, Teniola Rojugbokan, William

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Celebrating the arrival of spring with Outdoor Classroom Day

Friday May 18 is Outdoor Classroom Day, and lots of schools across Devon will be taking part.

Outdoor Classroom Day is a global initiative which aims to encourage teachers, parents, guardians and youth groups to get children spending more time learning and playing outdoors.

There is growing evidence that outdoor learning is beneficial – it can support creating a meaningful...

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A school trip 65 million years in the making

One local school has won a school trip of Jurassic proportions, giving all 114 pupils the opportunity to visit an immersive dinosaur experience coming to Central Park this May half term.

Marlborough Primary Academy School, based in Plymouth, entered the competition to win tickets to Dinosaurs in the Park after receiving an email about the giveaway. Their headteacher, Mrs Green,...

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Optometry taster day for clear-sighted pupils

Plymouth University hosted a special taster day for 50 South West pupils to inspire them to be tomorrow’s opticians.

The event was organised by Lecturer in Optometry Alice Cottle and sponsored by Specsavers.

The pupils, all in Years 10 to 13, met academic staff from the University’s Optometry programme, attended mini lectures on eye anatomy and visual processing, and had the...

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Devon Dazzlers; small college team with big football dreams!

South Devon College’s Pro:Direct Academy 1st team has made it through to the final of the English College FA (ECFA) National Premier Cup.

After winning last year, the team hopes to be victorious once more.

“Up until 2019 the college had no real facilities for football. But thanks to investments from the Premier League and FA, we now have a state of the art sports centre and a 3G pitch...

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Cost of living crisis: more students to stay at home

For many young people going away to university is a rite of passage but with the cost of living crisis some are choosing to stay local.

South Devon College student Charlie Groves says he was shocked when he realised the cost of accommodation. The 19 year old from Torquay has decided to stay living with his parents when he progresses from school next year to university. He’s planning on...

Devon College unveils a trio of green qualifications this Earth Day

This Earth Day, South Devon College introduces three cutting-edge sustainability qualifications with a backdrop of Dartmoor National Park and Devon coastline

South Devon College is making a splash with the introduction of three cutting-edge sustainability qualifications: Access to Higher Education: Global Studies and Sustainability Diploma, a Foundation Degree (FdSc) in Global Change, Social...

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Judith Noble appointed as Professor of Film and the Occult

Arts University Plymouth celebrates conferment of professorship

Arts University Plymouth has appointed Head of Academic Research Judith Noble as Professor of Film and the Occult, recognising her significant contribution to academic scholarship, teaching and research, particularly her outstanding and sustained international contribution to the scholarship of surrealism, film and the occult....

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Devon families successful in primary school applications

Almost 99 per cent of Devon families have won a place in one of their preferred primary schools this September.

Figures published today (Monday 17 April) reveal that 7,065 applications were made across the county.

And 6,979 families have been offered a place at one of their four preferred schools - that's 98.8 per cent.

The new figures show that 96.7 per cent of the...

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Primary School Pupils Visit Tungsten West Hemerdon Mine

Pupils from Sparkwell Primary School were given the unique opportunity to visit Tungsten West’s 100 per cent owned Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine in Plymouth (“Hemerdon”) as part of the Building Plymouth Open Sites week. A group of 30 Year 6 students from neighbouring Sparkwell Primary School were invited to visit Hemerdon, the second largest tungsten deposit in the world, and discover more...

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