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Gold standard skills – interview with Aircraft Maintenance champion Haydn Jakes

    Engineering student Haydn Jakes became a gold medal winner over Summer, competing for Team UK in the WorldSkills 2019 competition held in Kazan, Russia. Designed by industry experts, the WorldSkills UK competitions equip apprentices and students with the world-class skills needed to help UK businesses better compete globally. The WorldSkills competition originated after …

Gold Medal at Chelsea

Nottingham academics have won a Gold Medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Researchers from the School of Biosciences – exhibiting for the first time at the Royal Horticultural Society event – won the ‘Best RHS Environment Exhibit’ Award. The University’s exhibit, Food for the Future, showcases the latest plant and crop research. Nottingham …

Elite student athletes set to follow in footsteps of Olympic star

After seeing five of its graduates pick up Olympic medals at London 2012, The University of Nottingham has its sights set on helping to produce the next generation of UK sporting heroes. To help them on their way, a bursary scheme has been set up to provide some of the country’s brightest sporting talent with …