The Strategic Employer Engagement in Devon (SEED) project is funded by the European Social Fund and is being facilitated by the Shaping Futures Project team at Petroc, Barnstaple. Strategic Employer Engagement in Devon works with SME’s to strengthen higher level vocational education and training. These opportunities are fully funded. The definition of SME’s that the […]
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STEM engagement at Holywell C of E Primary School, Tawstock Squirrels Class really enjoyed a visit from our STEM ambassador, Paul Mullen, from the North Devon Manufacturers Association. We carried out an engineering challenge to build the tallest/strongest tower possible from just 12 marshmallows and a packet of spaghetti! The results were interesting…and very sticky!
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North Devon Sinfonia is seeking support to realise exciting plans for the inaugural NDS Music Festival in 2019. This is a pioneering venture which will bring world class professional musicians to North Devon to work with and inspire both young musicians from schools across the region, and local adult amateur musicians. North Devon Sinfonia will
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Petroc is delighted to announce that it has secured funding from the European Regional Development Fund towards a £1.2 million project to create a Centre of Technology and Innovation Excellence at its North Devon Campus. Work is due to commence in summer 2019, to create a technology-based research and innovation hub for local SMEs and
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Paul Mullen, Lean Engineer at ANGLO-American Vulcanized Fibre Ltd and Vice Chair to NDMA has been nominated in the national STEM inspiration awards Paul’s involvement in STEM activities throughout North Devon are widely recognised in the region as being ‘above and beyond’. His work with schools in the area and as a co-ordinator and judge
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Four budding engineers from a South Molton primary school have made it through to the finals of a national competition. Pupils from South Molton United Church of England Primary School have been taking part in the Jaguar Primary School Challenge – a STEM competition that involves designing and manufacturing model cars. After finishing second in
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Higher Education staff at Petroc in Barnstaple have been recognised for the ‘excellent’ outcomes of students. Petroc has received a silver award for Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) after students achieved ‘excellent’ outcomes. The award from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) saw a panel reviewing the college against its criteria. In its statement
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Barnstaple’s Petroc College is part of a consortium of educational establishments bidding for a South West Institute of Technology, reports Devon Live: “A £25million bid for a South West Institute of Technology is taking a major step forward. Plans to create state-of-the-art centres in Exeter, Truro, Plymouth, Barnstaple and Bridgwater area have reached the final
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STEM ambassadors from EATON aerospace engaged with Great Torrington School on a very special project During the Spring term two STEM ambassadors from the South Molton plant attended Great Torrington School (GTS) to help a class of pupils with a very ambitious project that the school has been struggling to resource technically for the last
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A new initiative that will bring together business and industry with expertise and equipment at a cutting edge electron microscopy centre has formally launched at the University of Plymouth. The Plymouth Materials Characterisation Project (PMCP) will enable companies in Devon to work with academics and technical specialists using a new Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron
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