Keele apprentice is one of the best

Third year electrical apprentice, Ashley Mollart, Commercial and Facilities Management (Estates) at Keele University, has been named as one of the top apprentices in the country.
Ashley has won a prestigious award for being assessed as 2nd place winner of the JTL West Midlands Apprentice of the Year.
The JTL West Midland Regional Awards, honour the best [...]

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The Staffordshire Oatcake: A History

The famous Staffordshire oatcake is nothing less than a local food hero. Throughout the Potteries, and even beyond, it has achieved iconic status, with more than forty traditional oatcakemakers still in business today.
True, it has come a long way from its origins as humble, cheap and filling sustenance for the poor. All manner of exotic [...]

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Glittering and glinting, the world’s biggest diamond structure heads to the West End

The largest representation ever created of the atomic structure of diamond will be brought to the West End on Tuesday, 21 July for public exhibition.
The sculpture is one of three works of science art portraying carbon made in recent weeks by Keele University and called collectively Carbon Rapture.
Carbon Rapture will be located in the courtyard of [...]

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Mark remembers father with fundraising challenge

Mark Warren, of Audio Visual Services at Keele University, is putting his best foot forward to raise money for the hospice which cared for his father in his last days.
Mark, who lives in Crewe, will take part in the Bupa Great North 10K in Sunderland this week (JULY 12) to raise money for St Luke’s [...]

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National Teaching Fellowship for Keele Lecturer

A Keele lecturer has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.
Dr Jonathan Parker is one of just fifty lecturers and learning support staff to be chosen from 203 nominations submitted by further and higher education institutions across England and Northern Ireland. He will receive an award of £10,000, which may [...]

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