Uni takes student drive to beach

A Devon university has come up with a novel way to reach out to potential new students over the summer holidays.
The University of Plymouth will be touring beaches in Cornwall with a customised beach buggy.

The roadshows, which started on Wednesday, will visit a number of Cornish beaches until 16 August.

The university’s Andrea Walters said: “We wanted to find a fun way to reach potential students that captured the essence of what the area has to offer.”

The buggy, manned by student ambassadors, will visit travel around the county visiting locations including St Mawes, St Ives and Sennen until 16 August, the day before A-level results are published.

The university has about 30,000 students and is consistently ranked as one of the top five modern universities in the UK.

Graduate Opportunity

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Graduate Opportunity for ‘Milk Production Economist’ Plymouth, Devon. An exciting opportunity involving a partnership between a major southwest dairy company and the University of Plymouth with funded development opportunities (supported by a £3.5k training budget) and excellent long term career prospects. See www.graduate-opps.org.uk/vacancies.html

“Milk Production Economist”

Plymouth, Devon

Salary: £19k plus pa

(dependent upon qualifications and experience)

An exciting opportunity involving a partnership between a major southwest dairy company and a leading university with funded development opportunities (supported by a £3.5k training budget) and excellent long term career prospectsThis 2-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) presents an exciting opportunity to make a significant difference in an operational environment. You will play a leading part in developing an in-house forecasting process providing Milk Link, as well as member farmers, with valuable information to aid decision making. These new forecasting techniques will enable Milk Link to enhance predictions of milk supply, improve planning and augment support to farmer members. The project will also develop new farm level tools to aid farmer input into this process and a member-centred professional development programme.

Milk Link Ltd is a farmer owned dairy co-operative with 2,000 members and is one of the UK”s leading integrated dairy businesses. With a major processing capacity of around 1.5 billion litres of milk, Milk Link is a leading force in the dairy industry and manufactures a wide range of dairy products.

You will have graduated within the last 3 years with a BSc 2:1 or above or a higher degree in Agricultural Economics, Economics or similar. You must be a highly motivated individual with an excellent understanding of quantitative analysis techniques and ideally experience of forecasting techniques and developing models.

An ability to communicate well with farmers is vital for this role, therefore a good understanding of farming and farm management issues is essential and experience of the dairy industry would be advantageous. A full UK driving licence is essential.

Employed by the University of Plymouth on a 2 year fixed term contract, but working full-time at Milk Link, you will work under the supervision of experts from the University of Plymouth”s School of Geography in the Faculty of Social Science and Business.

New online gallery compelloart.com to focus on assisting students and emerging artists

Maximum Technology International (MTI) is launching an online art gallery, Compello Art “Gallery of Galleries”. The Launch will take place in early Spring 2007 in London.  

Students will be invited to add their works to the site pre launch to help gain exposure as soon as humanly possible. The invitation will be extended to them through their course tutors this August 

The Gallery sponsored by The Saatchi Gallery London aims to provide an international medium for up and coming artists and photographers including students, to exhibit their work and provide them with the facility to sell to a worldwide customer base.

 

Compello Art will be launched to run alongside www.thestudentzone.com an established international student community site also run by MTI. The Saatchi Gallery (London), are supporting the Compello Art project in their quest to assist young artists and to further art education.  

The gallery is designed as a forum for artists across social, international and artistic boundaries enabling them to display their work, which they would otherwise not have had the confidence or finance to exhibit. Students will have direct access to Compello Art through their University or College portal and will be able to exhibit their work in a uniquely competitive way, not only assisting with their student debt but also selling at a market rate rather than a student rate. Enabling entry into a very competitive market on a level playing field. This may also lead to commissions.   

Compello Art has been developed by MTI who are an Internet and web development company with their own family of websites providing an established international audience of both buyers and sellers.  

The exhibiters will be able to post their images together with a detailed profile. Buyers will be able to purchase on line through various processes including download and the more traditional secure postal delivery.  

The Saatchi Gallery will make recommendations each month from the displayed images by artists and photographers. Those selected will be displayed in a recommendations page for the following month. This selection process we hope will be expanded to include other noted members of the art community. These will also be displayed on the Saatchi Gallery site www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk  

To register your interest & your support for the project please visit www.compelloart.com  

Summary

 

• Compello Art in association with The Student Zone, sponsored by The Saatchi Gallery, is launching in Spring 2007 worldwide.

 

• Students will receive an invite to add their work pre launch though their course tutors

 

• Compello Art to focus on assisting emerging artists & student artists

 

• Compello Art to be included in worldwide student network and cross social, international & artistic boundaries.

 

• Each month The Saatchi Gallery will make recommendations and select artists to be featured on both www.compelloart.com & Saatchi Gallery London’s website

 

 

For more information or if you have any questions please email marketing@thestudentzone.com