Education

The final of Plymouth’s ‘You're Hired!’ will take place today and tomorrow in the Roland Levinsky Building at the University of Plymouth.

The concept of ‘You're Hired!’ is to find Plymouth’s most employable 17-year-old sixth-former. In order to get to these final stages, 11 city sixth forms each staged one of the heats and students competed in two of the challenges provided...

An internationally-recognised performing arts lecturer and a leading figure in the development of technology-enhanced learning are both to be honoured with National Teaching Fellowships.

Adam Benjamin and Professor Neil Witt are two of only 55 winners nationally in the awards scheme by the Higher Education Academy, which aims to raise the status of teaching and learning across the UK...

More than 300 school children have been learning about the marine environment at an event, which is aimed at encouraging young people to become actively engaged with our blue environment.

Some 330 children from 11 schools across the south-west took part in the Ecover Schools Blue Mile and enjoyed hands-on activities linking sport and marine conservation over three days on 17-19 June...

Could this be how we shop in the future? Children taking part in an experiment to see if ‘traffic light’ labelling on packaging made any difference to their purchasing habits said they would like to see the system introduced.

The idea is being advocated by international marine debris expert Professor Richard Thompson of Plymouth University, who believes that youngsters are the key to a...