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 welcomes guest from Uganda

On Friday 26 September, City College Plymouth will be celebrating the twinning of the College with the Human Technical Development Training Centre in Lira, a town in the North of Uganda.

The Principal of the Training Centre, Kalisto Agea Ogwang, is visiting City College for the first time, as part of a week-long visit, funded by the British Council. During the week, Kalisto will meet...

It’s not too late to join City College Plymouth

City College Plymouth is ensuring that the young people of Plymouth still have the opportunity to pursue the career of their choice by extending its course enrolment window until the end of October.

Due to popular demand, courses across a wide variety of vocational areas are accepting late enrolments to give people the opportunity to make the right decision for their future.

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Poetry in Motion

Thirteen schools across Tavistock are holding a poetry festival to show young people that poetry is great fun and something everyone can do.

Tavistock Cooperative Learning Trust has created a week-long poetry event which will take place between 29 September and 3 October to encourage people to look at poetry and poets in a new light.

Each school will be visited by a...

School recruiting talent of the future

Tomorrow’s scientists and engineers can now apply for places at the county’s newest school, the South Devon University Technical College in Engineering, Water and the Environment, which opens its doors to the first intake of students this time next year.

The innovative UTC has been established by the University of Exeter and South Devon College alongside key local and regional...

Free business course for South West residents

A new initiative, due to launch in September, will allow anyone in the South West or anywhere in the world to study business for free at the top ten ranked University of Exeter Business School, thanks to a collaboration between global accountancy body ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and online learning platform FutureLearn.

Together, they are launching a...

More Plymouth two year olds to get free early education

The number of Plymouth children now entitled to free early education has more than doubled.

Since 1 September 2013, local authorities have had a duty to provide free early education for eligible two-year-olds. From September 2014 that duty has extended to include even more two year olds with wider eligibility. That means that around 1400 city children will now be able to access free...

Parents worry school starters won’t make friends

Over a third of parents in the South West (36 per cent) worry that their children won’t make friends when they start school, according to an Action for Children poll of more than 2,200 British parents.

Brigitte Gater, director of children’s services at Action for Children, which runs 38 children’s centres in Devon said: “The first day at school is an anxious time, sometimes more so for...

New adult learning accounting qualification available

Plymouth Adult and Community Learning Service (PACLS) have now been approved by the UK’s leading qualification and membership body for accounting staff. The AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) Accounting Qualification is universally respected and internationally recognised.

Councillor Sue McDonald, Cabinet Member for Children, Young people and Public health says: “For many...

University to make confirmation process easier

Prospective students will get the chance to speak directly with their future lecturers as part of efforts by Plymouth University to make the confirmation process less stressful.

Thousands of applicants will receive their A-level results on Thursday 14 August and call the University’s specially established hotline to confirm they will be coming to Plymouth in September.

They...

Student wins International Day of Peace award

Ivybridge Community College student Sarah Wills has won a top award in a national creative writing competition that aims to educate people about peace and inclusiveness.

The high-profile competition, run by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), was open to students aged seven years old to 13 years old from throughout the UK, and 15-year-old Sarah received her award at an awards...

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