Education

An international expert in marine debris says that school children will be a driving force in bringing about a sea change in attitude towards marine pollution, which has reached crisis proportions across the globe in the past decade.

Plymouth University professor, Richard Thompson, who is working on UN and EU projects to find solutions to ocean debris, believes children have a major...

Students studying medicine and dentistry at Plymouth University are experiencing the best courses of their kind in the west, according to a national university league table published this week.

The Guardian University League Table 2014 ranks the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry degrees fourth in England (sixth and eighth respectively in the UK).

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A renowned composer has been invited to perform one of his innovative pieces at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Dr Alexis Kirke, a member of Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, will perform his acclaimed Cloud Chamber at the 26th Lepton-Photon Conference, the world’s premiere conference for the field of elementary particle...

Children from Woodlands School in Plymouth became ship captains for the day when they visited Plymouth University’s Marine Building.

Three children from the school visited the University earlier this month to experience its state-of-the-art ship simulator – and within two hours they’d helmed a speed boat and cargo ship in Plymouth Sound, Sydney Harbour and New York.

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