Education

Experts at Plymouth University will be giving advice on how best to prepare for employment or advance your career at a Postgraduate and Professional Open Evening in March.

From chemistry to construction and marketing to management, visitors will be able to put their questions about courses direct to the academics.

With representation from Arts and Humanities, Business, Science...

The number of young people being accepted into their first choice of secondary school has increased this year, as thousands of primary pupils in Plymouth will today find out which school they will be going to this September.

Plymouth City Council confirmed that 94.86 per cent of young people received their first choice of school, 3.78 per cent their second and 1.09 per cent their third...

Labour have today launched plans to improve primary schools in Plymouth by capping class sizes, this follows a new report which shows that the number of infant pupils in large classes in Plymouth has jumped by 600% since the Conservatives took government.

In 2010 the Conservatives scrapped Labour’s policy to cap infant class sizes at 30 pupils. The proportion of class sizes bigger...

Teaching young people the “4 Rs” from an early age is the ultimate way to enable the information technology innovators of the future to flourish, a leading academic has said.

Kevin Jones, Professor of Computing Science and Executive Dean of Science and Environment at Plymouth University, believes an upcoming overhaul of the computing curriculum will provide children with a more rounded...