Student Life

Plymouth University has invested in a new state-of-the-art sonar system that will enable students to map the underwater world and visualise in detail features such as shipwrecks.

The Multi-Beam Echo Sounder (MBES) will be used on board the University’s teaching and research vessels and has already been tested off the coast of Devon and Cornwall over wrecks such as HMS Scylla and the SS...

77% achieve five A*-C (including English and Maths) - 11% growth on previous year

• 37% achieve 3 A/A*s or more • 23 students achieve 10 A/A*s or more

Staff and students at Ivybridge Community College are celebrating today, after recording the best GCSE results in the college’s history.

The college saw a huge increase in those attaining five A*-C grades (including...

Another set of record-breaking A-Level results and their equivalents were celebrated by students at Marine Academy Plymouth (MAP) as they collected their exam results today.

MAP has seen a surge of 6th Form students completing A-levels and their equivalents this year. Last year, 31 students completed these exams; this year it’s a whopping 53 students. MAP saw 100 per cent pass rates in...

Your A level results have arrived and they’re not what you had expected, so what do you do now? The first and most important tip - don’t panic. Iola Nelson, Plymouth University Undergraduate Student Recruitment Manager, advises school and college leavers at this time every year. Here, she shares the answers to the most commonly asked questions.

Q. What is Clearing? A. Clearing is the...