Education

Study Smarter at Home: Practical Tips for Online Lessons

Home can be a calm, effective classroom with a few simple tweaks. This guide shares practical tips that parents and students can use with confidence. We’ll cover space, routines, and study habits that make learning stick. It’s written with busy families in mind. Keep it simple, keep it steady,...

College pledges to help Plymouth become a sustainable fish city

The Sustainable Fish Cities campaign aims to change the way consumers buy and eat fish, and to encourage local businesses and caterers to serve environmentally sustainable fish. With a long and proud connection with fisheries and as home to the largest fish market in England, Plymouth is one of only 27 Marine Protected Areas in England and home to around one thousand native species. The...

Want to start an apprenticeship in electrical or plumbing?

We are offering a Traineeship covering both the Electrical and Plumbing industry, which is running for 4 weeks starting from Tuesday 30th June 2015! This 4 week programme is designed to further your knowledge about both industries and increase your chance of starting an Apprenticeship and gaining employment.

The Traineeship offers candidates the opportunity to gain both theoretical...

iPhone project wins presentation competition

Teams of budding business leaders have been put through their paces in a competition created by the Plymouth Business School and Futures Entrepreneurship Centre at Plymouth University.

Pupils from secondary schools across Devon were challenged to prepare a business presentation, with six teams then taking part in a workshop at the University and talking about their project in front of...

Children learn vital life saving and safety skills

Just before the start of summer holidays and their move up from primary school into secondary education, more than two thousand ten and eleven year olds from across Plymouth are learning vital life skills that will help keep them safe and potentially save lives.

The event is organised by Plymouth City Learning and Communities Department, hosted by the Royal Navy is run over a three...

Schools vying to become maths champions

Pupils at 12 schools across England are busy making the final preparations for a competition that could see them crowned as the country’s top young mathematicians and statisticians.

Schools from Devon to Lincolnshire and Kent to Merseyside are in the running to be named the champions of WinAtSchool 2015.

The online competition is organised by the International Centre for...

University recognised for social enterprise

The Plymouth-based University of St Mark & St John has become one of only four universities in the UK to have been awarded the Social Enterprise Mark, indicating that it is a social enterprise supporting the community, the environment and with good social purpose.

The Social Enterprise Mark CIC is the UK and international certification authority that safeguards social enterprise...

Council committed to helping children improve their reading and writing

Plymouth City Council will now be working more closely with schools to help more 11 year olds to reach the standard of literacy they’ll need to be successful learners.

In May 2014 the Council's Cabinet set out 50 new pledges all aimed at making Plymouth a better place to live. One of those pledges was to increase the number of children leaving school with the ability to read and write...

Do parents lack faith in the British education system?

Nearly a quarter of state school pupils in England and Wales, aged 11 – 16, have regular private tuition. Further findings from the Sutton Trust show there is almost a 20% increase on the figures from 2005.

So, is it just good parenting to get your child a tutor? Or does it represent a lack of faith in the British education system?

Many would claim the rise of the private...

Don't miss the biggest first aid lesson ever

Almost 100 schools in the South West – including 16 in Devon – have signed up to St John Ambulance's Big First Aid Lesson, with less than a month to go until it is broadcast.

The free, one-hour, online first aid session ( www.sja.org.uk/bigfirstaidlesson ) hosted by television presenter Claudia Winkleman will be streamed into classrooms on Friday 12 June.

And St John...

Ivybridge mum praises exchange programme

THE MOTHER who sent her children to France and Spain for six months respectively aged 13 and 12 said it was much harder for her to let them go and praised the benefits to their education and confidence.

Anna West from Ivybridge, Devon, sent her son Paddy to Vannes in France to live with a French family and their children and daughter India to Pamplona in Spain to do the same.

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