A recent fine art graduate from Plymouth University will benefit from a potential springboard to promote their work this summer at Plymouth Arts Centre.
Plymouth Arts Centre has invited Hand in Glove to stage its annual PLATFORM exhibition at the centre in Looe Street, offering a fantastic opportunity for a promising local graduate.
Four students have been crowned the first winners of a competition designed to spark increased enthusiasm in mathematics and statistics.
Teenagers from The Ecclesbourne School in Derbyshire won £2,500 after triumphing in WinAtSchool 2013, with St John’s Marlborough second and the Kendrick School in Berkshire third.
They were among hundreds of schools to take part in the...
Plymouth University’s Cognition Institute is taking the lead in a four million euro project to explore how creative thinking underpins cognitive processes.
Funded by the European Union Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) programme and Plymouth University, ‘CogNovo’ will involve a consortium of 23 academic and industrial partners from around the world studying the role of novelty...
Health Organisations should be doing more on social media according to new research from Plymouth University.
The research, conducted by Maged N. Kamel Boulos as part of a World Health Organisation report into global health literacy, suggests that health organisations do more to make health advice available online.
The research finds that the use of engaging social media could...
Plymouth University has been awarded more than £500,000 to enhance the use of renewable energy in buildings on its campus.
The grant, from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), will see a range of new technologies installed in the Charles Seale-Hayne Library and the Students’ Union building.
It will complement the University’s existing green initiatives,...
A Plymouth University student has become one of only six worldwide to receive a prestigious engineering scholarship.
Alina Colling has received the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Techology (IMarEST) undergraduate scholarship of £1,000 sponsored by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
In addition, the firm has also taken an unprecedented step and offered Alina a...
A new course for teachers and teaching assistants has been created in Plymouth to improve understanding and advance the techniques used to teach children with autism in mainstream schools.
Five talented teachers will be receiving their Post Graduate Certificate (PG Cert): Autism Spectrum Condition at a ceremony on Wednesday 17 July at Plymouth University’s Roland Levinsky Building....
Businesses in Plymouth and the west country peninsula will benefit from £4 million funding awarded to the Plymouth City Deal partnership.
A Regional Growth Fund bid from Plymouth University, backed by other Plymouth City Deal partners including Plymouth City Council, the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP and the Plymouth...
Broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Dimbleby is to launch an innovative new smartphone app that enables people to capture and comment upon landscapes in and around the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Rate my View has been developed by the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in partnership with Plymouth University as part of the European cross-...
