Celebrate cycling during Bike Week!
Bike Week (8-16 June) aims to get people back in the saddle and enjoying the benefits of cycling for everyday journeys, fitness and fun - and everyone is invited! Love to Ride Devon are supporting Bike Week with a month-long cycle challenge during June with amazing...
St Austell boasts one of top UK catering colleges
Cornwall College St Austell is celebrating cementing its status as one of the top catering colleges in the UK, with a Highly Commended AA College Rosette. The Cornwall College Group retained its three Centres of Excellence, one of only a few colleges in the UK to hold...
Money for a good claws
Foundation Learning Students from St Austell completed the end of a ‘purrfect’ fundraiser with a visit from four-week-old kittens. Two student groups worked on a number of enterprise projects since September, making items and selling their products on campus; from...
WBD launches new service for scale-ups and partners with Yena to support innovation
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has announced a new service for fast growing businesses, WBD Accelerate, alongside a formal partnership with Yena, a virtual acceleration community that supports entrepreneurs and the growth of start-ups across the UK. WBD...
South West ‘Space Tech’ Entrepreneurial Programme
The ‘Space Tech’ programme currently offers South West innovative start-ups and entrepreneurs outstanding business support for Space-related ideas, to enable greater funding opportunities and help drive regional growth. Ideas include using satellite data,...
Exeter College Celebrates National ‘Love Our Colleges’ Week
Exeter College is celebrating national ‘Love Our Colleges’ Week – a national celebration of Further Education colleges across the nation. The nationwide ‘Love Our Colleges’ week, 13-17 May 2019, coordinated by the Association of Colleges (AoC) seeks to highlight the...
Working to close skills gap in West; The power of a positive role model
This article first appeared in the Western Morning News. We can all think of someone who has particularly shaped or influenced our lives in a positive way. For me, it was a team leader during my gap year, my mentor whose enthusiasm and passion influenced my decision...
Report abuse against shop workers
Shopworkers across England and Wales are being encouraged to report every incident of abuse when it occurs as part of a new campaign being launched today by the Home Office, retail businesses and retail membership organisations. The campaign aims to challenge the...
GA Solicitors to partner Race for Life events in Plymouth
PLYMOUTH law firm GA Solicitors is to partner Cancer Research UK for its two Race for Life events in Plymouth. The three-year partnership will see the firm support both the 5k event at The Hoe on Sunday 16th June, and the Pretty Muddy event at Central Park on Sunday...
High stakes study tour hits the spot
The home of thoroughbred horseracing, Newmarket, was just one of the iconic equine institutions that played host to an informative and intriguing study tour for the next generation of the industry. FdSc Equitation Behaviour and Training Year 1 students at Duchy...
Devon businesses celebrate initiative to make Exeter a global leader in low vehicle emissions
Image by Matt Round. Business leaders from across Devon have celebrated the launch of a major new initiative to improve air pollution in Exeter and across the county. With the aim of removing the equivalent of 1,000 cars’ worth of emissions from the city’s air by the...
Agriculture students evaluate higher options
Agriculture students from across Cornwall and Devon descended on Duchy College, Stoke Climsland to investigate the Higher Education (HE) options available to them locally. The day began looking at soil, identifying the soil type and structure, presence of worms, roots...
