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Making the grade! Adult learners collect their GCSE results from Learn Devon

Adult learners at Learn Devon were among those who endured the nerve-racking moment of collecting their GCSE results yesterday.

Learn Devon, Devon County Council’s adult education service, offers free GCSE English and maths qualifications, with courses that start in September and in January.

In Exmouth, Andrew Morgan achieved a grade 5 in his English GCSE. He said: “I’m delighted, it's has been a long year and I have had to work really hard and I'm now feeling really relieved. Thanks to Learn Devon, especially to the learning support team for their help.”

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Exceptional Exeter College once again awarded “Outstanding” by Ofsted 

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 01/26/2023 - 11:15pm

Exeter College is celebrating after a full Ofsted Inspection, which has resulted in the College retaining the impressive accolade ofOutstanding.

Eight years since its last inspection Ofsted again confirmed that Exeter College is an Outstanding College. The College also scored the top assessment of ‘strong’ for its approach to meeting the skills needs of the area. This makes Exeter College the first college in the country to achieve the highest judgement in both elements of Ofsted’s new enhanced inspections.

The 21-strong Ofsted inspection team visited every College site...

University of Exeter Ranks Second in New Top UK Universities List

  • Upcoming students have until 25th January 2023 to complete their UCAS application

  • A new data index reveals the top UK universities based on a range of factors including student satisfaction, graduate prospects, accommodation costs and more

  • The index reveals University of Exeter to be second in the UK

With the UCAS deadline of 25 January drawing near and Google searches for ‘how to choose a university’ increasing by 69% in the last month, a big decision looms for young people across the country.

To help steer students...

Exeter School voted the best independent school in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset

Exeter School features as number 98 in a list of the top 400 independent secondary schools in the 2022 edition of The Sunday Times Parent Power.

This means that the co-educational day school for 7-18 year-olds maintains its ranking as the top independent school in Devon.

Exeter School Head, Ms Louise Simpson, said: “The Parent Power table is about so much more than exam results; it also reflects how well a school supports pupil mental health and how well-rounded the offering is. Whilst our phenomenal exam results are testament to our hard-working pupils and...

The Best Ways to Help Students Who Struggle Academically

Authored by Val Watson
Posted: Fri, 12/16/2022 - 5:54am

Life has brought many struggles at one time or another. You understand that it sometimes gets hard, and you must push yourselves to survive. Learning this lesson for the student is essential. To succeed in school, struggling students must learn perseverance and overcome problems. It is often easier for a teacher to help a struggling student to get through it instead of teaching strategies to help them succeed.

It is often difficult to resist the urge to tell the student what to do since you might have several other students who also need your help. Yet it would help if you kept...

Moira Marder is chief executive of the Ted Wragg Trust

Ted Wragg Trust welcomes praise from Ofsted Inspectors

A Devon educational trust is realising its vision to ‘to transform lives and strengthen communities to make the world a better place’ – something which has been recognised in a recent Ofsted inspection.

The Ted Wragg Trust (TWT), which comprises 13 schools located in Exeter, Plymouth, Crediton and East Devon has been recognised for its strong values, leadership, behaviour standards and emphasis on ensuring that the needs of disadvantaged pupils are met well, after being selected as one of only five Trusts in the country and just one of two in the south west to undergo an ‘Ofsted...

What are Good Maths Activities for Year 4 Children?

Authored by Liv Butler
Posted: Mon, 12/12/2022 - 6:12am

If you have a Year 4 child, you probably want to help them better grasp maths concepts and enjoy the different topics. If they can do this, they will soon perform well in the subject and get better results. To do this, you should consider getting them some maths learning resources. The beauty of well-designed resources is that they offer different, engaging activities to help Year 4 children learn Maths in fun and exciting ways. Effective resources play a crucial role in both classroom and home learning. The materials have been fully tested and proven to help in learning mathematics, even...

An English language teacher and EU Erasmus expert in the spotlight

Authored by erasmusuk
Posted: Sun, 12/04/2022 - 9:11pm

Enrique Ruiz Cano is an English language teaching specialist who currently works for a state Primary school in Spain (CEIP Nuestra Senora de la Fuensanta from Beniajan in the Murcia region of south eastern Spain). He has also taught in a wide range of summer school in the UK up and down the country. What’s more, he has family links in Norfolk and Kent which he considers his second homes.

He set up a pioneering network of Primary schools in Devon both in Exeter and near Exeter which were successful when it came to gaining Erasmus+ funding from the European Union. This EU programme...

No Label No Limit for young women in Devon schools

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 11/30/2022 - 5:24pm

A Heart of the South West (HotSW) Careers Hub * programme has been launched across 14 schools in Devon to help raise the confidence and aspirations of 500 young women.

The No Label No Limit programme is a personal development programme, inspiring and empowering young women in year nine and 10 to reach their potential.

Funded by The Careers & Enterprise Company , No Label No Limit will explore whether tailored personal development and careers support significantly improves self-belief, social and emotional capabilities, attendance, application to learning, behaviour...

Children in uniform working with digital devices in the Year 6 lecture theatre

Broadclyst Community Primary School retains its Ofsted Outstanding status

Broadclyst Community Primary School (BCPS) has been awarded Outstanding status in all areas.

The school has held the status since 2008, under previous inspection regimes, and has now retained the award, in spite of a more rigorous, new Ofsted framework, in which approximately only 3% of schools nationally achieve the outstanding judgement. Moreover, the news follows the announcement that only 20% of previously outstanding schools have been able to retain the award since the current approach began.

The founding school of the Cornerstone Academy Trust, BCPS has a national and...

University of Exeter Business School wins Business School of the Year in industry “Oscars”

The University of Exeter Business School has been named Business School of the Year in the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards, known as the “Oscars” of higher education.

Awarded last night (Thursday Nov 17), the accolade is among the most prestigious in the industry, in recognition of the University of Exeter Business School’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis. The School has made sustainability a major focus of its strategy and mission through research, education and partnerships, in line with its strong belief that business has a crucial role to play in tackling the...

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