The University supported the local community and the NHS to tackle COVID-19 infection. Our Clinical Skills Team and Nursing and Midwifery Department led a major vaccination training programme for North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group (NCL CCG), training 2,500 people in 2020/21. The Think Ahead initiative will use the funds to recruit and train 480 mental health workers who will study at Middlesex University.
SUPPORTING THE FRONTLINE AND OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY
We have continued to collaborate with partners across the borough of Barnet and the role we play in our local community has become more important than ever.
To help further support national efforts against COVID-19, we worked with Barnet Public Health and Public Health England (PHE) to host a long-term coronavirus testing facility on our campus, which was managed by Barnet Public Health. We also helped London Studio Centre, one of our partner institutions, with their lateral flow testing. After we started to carry out twice-weekly coronavirus testing for students and staff attending our facilities, London Studio Centre asked if we could help them with testing. Because of the number of people who required regular testing, a satellite test centre was set up on their campus and this carried out testing four days per week over a 19-week period until the end of the academic year. More than 4,400 tests were delivered – and eight of our Biomedical Science students gained valuable clinical experience.
Middlesex students training as teachers started their courses as critical workers, quickly adapting with professionalism, resilience and innovation to deliver remote learning during lockdown. This year more than 200 students worked for nurseries, primary and secondary schools at 26 local authorities in Greater London and surrounding areas. Since January 2021, students have been virtually attached to schools, helping to run online lessons, preparing resources and teaching key workers’ and vulnerable children in schools.
The pandemic meant that, unfortunately, we could not host our usual Holocaust Memorial Day event on campus with Barnet Council. This year, we were proud and honoured to be part of a commemorative film produced in collaboration with the Mayor of Barnet to mark one of the most critical, painful moments of our known history. The tribute video commemorates and remembers the victims of the Holocaust and genocides around the world. The special tribute included video clips from notable speakers, survivors and students, candle lighting and musical pieces and poems. There were messages from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nic Beech, and Rachel Laudau, the President of Middlesex University Students’ Union Jewish Society. Other guest speakers included Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich MBE and Robert Rinder, host of the Judge Rinder TV show.
In recognition of our work to support the people of Barnet during the pandemic, the University received a COVID-19 Community Heroes Award from the Council. In May, the
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