In response to the dire need for PPE for frontline healthcare staff, a non-profit group has formed called PPE4Exeter with a goal of manufacturing 5000 face-masks in the next four weeks.
What started as a small group of volunteers, making face-shields for GPs surgeries and local health and care teams in Devon and Somerset, has blossomed into a collaboration between individuals, local businesses, and organisations, who have already managed to supply over 600 face-masks to frontline staff in the Exeter region since banding together just under three weeks ago.
A consortium featuring the University of Exeter has been awarded £3.7m in funding to develop a suite of postgraduate conversion courses in AI and data science.
The Institute of Coding (IoC) consortium, which includes 11 Higher Education institutions, has received the significant funding boost from the Office for Students, it was recently announced.
The move is in response to a shortage of skilled graduates and accelerating demand in the area of data science and AI. The Government's Digital Strategy predicted that within 20 years, 90 per cent of all jobs will require...
In a show of support to Devon’s dedicated frontline NHS workers, Devon law firm Stephens Scown LLP is offering a 50% discount on Will-writing services to workers in the county.
To accommodate shift working, legal advisors at Stephens Scown are available to discuss Wills out-of-hours by video call with NHS workers in Devon.
Phil Reed, Partner in the firm’s private client team, says:
“The NHS’s dedicated workers are putting themselves on the frontline every day in the fight against coronavirus. We are so grateful to them and we wanted to show our support by...
Spring is a good time of the year to make some renovation in your house or your companies. However, if you expect to have high-end painting and decorating services, you should think about hiring professionals from London, the United Kingdom who will help you make your dreams come true. This article will tell more about them.
1. Commercial painting and decorating
2. Home painting and decorating
3. How to contact the specialists?
Commercial painting and decorating
The company performs the highest quality services in commercial places, such as...
A new test which could detect whether people who have had COVID-19 are still infectious is under development, thanks to funding from Animal Free Research UK.
The charity is providing funding of £52,000 to Professor Lorna Harries at the University of Exeter, who is developing a test that will aim to detect how much active virus an infected person is harbouring – known as viral load. Unlike current tests, which do not separately measure the inactive (non-infectious) and the active parts of the virus, the team is refining a test that could tell users not only whether they are...
More and more people are working from home in the modern world, but the challenges of getting the most out of your day when working at home are very different from when you’re working in an office.
It means you’ve got to find different ways of structuring your day in order to do your best work. The job of motivating falls squarely on your shoulders, and you’ve got to take responsibility for how you use your time.
Once you get used to working from home, though, many people find they’re actually more productive than they were when they were working in the office.
Moms are our best friends and often remain that one person we can run to when the world turns its back on us. Even though your mom thinks that you're in a bad place and you shouldn't get her anything for her birthday or even Mother's day, which is around the corner, you still want to remind her that she matters. You may also have another great person that's a mother figure, or maybe you're the mom! Every mom deserves a present , and this list should give you ideas that will help you make her day:
A tea subscription box
All moms love their warm beverages, most especially...
Sports societies from universities around the UK are going the distance in a new fitness challenge to raise £10,000 for essential Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for carers.
With most teams having planned to head out to Porec, Croatia for ‘tour’ during the Easter holidays, Leeds University Union Swimming and Water Polo Society (LUUSWP) decided to bring the competition back to home turf.
Starting on Sunday 26 April, members of each sports team will be running and walking as many miles as possible within a 10-day period. The aim is to be the first team to get to 970...
Exeter-based Data and Software specialists Software Solved is delighted to announce that it has launched its Data Maturity Assessment to the market, with the solution spanning a variety of sectors, including: Insurance, Food and Drink Manufacturing and Telcos.
Identifying and understanding your organisations data maturity can be overwhelming. Software Solved’s Access, Analyse, Learn, Predict model (AALPs) has been designed to help businesses to establish where their data is and how to move it forward to ensure the value is unlocked every step of the way
NSPCC fundraising colleagues in the South West of England will be taking on their own challenge as part of the 2.6 Challenge that’s being launched this Sunday to help charities raise money at a time when funding has dropped significantly.
The NSPCC, which relies on public support for 90% of its income, would have had 500 supporters taking on the 40th London Marathon this Sunday, pushing themselves around the 26.2-mile course to raise money for #TeamNSPCC.
Supporter Fundraising Manager for the region, Caroline Morgan said: “The London Marathon raises around £1.2million...
