EXETER'S University Partnership Programme, which specialises in funding, developing and operating student accommodation, has teamed up with youth charity The Prince's Trust to offer a new course to help unemployed young people into work.

For the past two weeks, UPP and the University of Exeter have hosted 12 unemployed 16 to 25-year-olds on The Prince's Trust's Get Into Facilities Management course.

One of those involved, Mark Ware, said: "I took part in the programme to gain experience and develop my skills, to enable me to get a job. I found the course insightful and refreshing."