Education

Thousands of parents and children in Plymouth learned day whether they have been successful in receiving their first choice of infant and primary schools.

Plymouth City Council has confirmed that 89.42 per cent of city children received their first choice of school this year, a marginal decrease of 0.35 per cent on last year's figures.

Altogether, 5.98 per cent of children...

Thousands of schoolchildren are to benefit from one of the biggest Teach on the Beach projects in the UK, being launched by the Ecover Blue Mile and Plymouth University based Natural Connections.

The programme will provide training in blue spaces for teachers across the South West of England. Among the organisations providing the training are the Eden Project in Cornwall and the Marine...

A group of dental students at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have been working with pupils from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Devonport to make them aware of the dangers of hidden sugar in what they eat and drink .

For many years, fat has been recognised as the ‘bogeyman’ in our diets. But recently sugar has been identified as the real...

Huge building blocks are being craned into place next week that will form the external walls of a new nursery in Barne Barton.

Councillor Nicky Williams, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People and ward councillors for St Budeaux, will watch the pieces of the nursery come together in a giant 3-D jigsaw puzzle on Monday (24 March).

The new £517,000 nursery at Kit Hill Park...