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Pupils at Cranbrook Education Campus have been putting their problem-solving skills to the test in the international Bebras Challenge.

Scores of pupils from years 5–10 took part, gaining a real taste of computational thinking in action.

The Bebras Challenge introduces...

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Plymouth student wins European computer security award

A Plymouth University student has beaten competition from across Europe to win a major prize at a continental computing conference.

Dusan Repel won the Best Paper accolade at the European round of Kaspersky Lab’s annual Cybersecurity for the Next Generation conference, which was held in Aachen, Germany.

His paper, titled Obfuscation and Formal Grammars Revisited, discusses the...

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University Technical College reaches for the sky

A state-of-the-art college that will work with local employers to provide students with technical skills to help build their careers in industry will complete the first phase of its own construction programme this week.

Main contractor BAM Construction will host a ‘Topping Out’ ceremony at University Technical College (UTC) Plymouth on Thursday (18th April) to celebrate attaining the...

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Plymouth school and local business link provides donation to Ghanaian school

Plymouth High School for Girls is a long standing customer of Scomis, an Exeter based ICT Service Unit of Devon County Council who have hosted the head teacher of a Ghanaian school at a special event.

Following a recent re-brand, Scomis, who provide bespoke ICT services to schools and education services throughout the South West and beyond have donated their old branded uniform and...

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Plymouth University to host global coastal research conference

The largest worldwide gathering of coastal science researchers will convene at Plymouth University next week for an international conference on how climate change is affecting our coastal zones.

The 12th International Coastal Symposium will bring together 500 of the world’s leading experts from 38 different nationalities for a week-long event to discuss the latest developments in...

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Meditation technique enhances children’s mental health

Teachers in schools across the globe are turning to a new philosophy to help improve the behaviour and well-being of students.

Mindfulness, a form of meditation, has been shown to help with a wide range of mental health conditions and improve well-being in adults. However, few trials have evaluated its effectiveness in children.

Professor Willem Kuyken from the Mood Disorders...

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Art and science combine to explore workings of the human brain

Researchers from the arts and sciences are joining forces in a bid to explore one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time – the workings of the human brain.

Plymouth University’s new Cognition Institute draws together experts in topics as varied as experimental psychology and the creative arts, cognitive robotics and biomedicine.

It aims to bridge the gaps between the...

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