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Emma Sutton, Gemma Storey and Fatmata Bangura at the Edge Hotel School
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Go ahead for new building
Building work is due to start in the New Year to develop the £21m new home for Essex Business School.
Scholarships at hotel school
Scholarships backed by leading businesses and educational trusts are helping attract talented students to the Edge Hotel School.
The new BaxterStorey scholarship worth £3,000 is available for a student enrolling in January 2013, thanks to the support of the UK’s largest independent food service provider.
Meanwhile, three students from Essex and Cambridgeshire have received scholarships
worth £3,000 each from the Savoy Educational Trust as they begin their studies.
Gemma Storey, 18, and Fatmata Bangura, 36, from Colchester, are both working towards a Foundation degree in Hotel Management, while Emma Sutton, 19, from Burwell in Cambridgeshire, is working towards a BA Hotel Management.
The Edge Hotel School at Wivenhoe House is the UK’s first hotel school based entirely in a fully operational commercial hotel.
More investment for spin-out UltraSoC
Groundbreaking technology company UltraSoC Technologies has received investment worth £1 million from Octopus Investments to help roll out its new debug technology throughout the world.
Pioneering
Spun-out from the universities of Essex and Kent in 2008, UltraSoC was founded by Cambridge entrepreneur Dr Karl Heeks and Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier, Research Director at Essex’s School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.
UltraSoC’s pioneering debugging technology has a huge variety of applications from laptops, smart phones and data processing systems to car engines.
The investment from Octopus will enable initial commercial activity by UltraSoC to help take its technology to the market.
Professor David Sanders, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University, said: “I am really excited to see the University’s spin- out company becoming so successful, providing vital technology to the industry and demonstrating the impact of our research.”
The new building will go ahead on the originally proposed site adjoining North Towers Road on the Colchester Campus. The decision follows a short pause in development while the University reviewed the options to ensure the building would be sited in the best possible location.
The review of the site came about following changes to the way the University’s Knowledge Gateway development is being taken forward, which presented the option of developing Essex Business School as the flagship building on the Knowledge Gateway.
The review concluded that the funding options for carrying out the development during 2013 were more favourable than any options available should there be a delay in order to develop plans for a new location.
Development options for the Knowledge Gateway will be reviewed as part of developing the University’s new Estates Strategy for the period 2013-18.
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