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year (outside term time) and offers 1,000 bedrooms in Halls of Residence with en suite bathrooms, and 200 Standard Halls of Residence bedrooms using shared facilities.
Additionally, Keele offers nine fixed lecture theatres able to hold from 30 – 400 delegates, 37 seminar rooms able to hold from eight – 100 delegates and a sports centre with over 1000 square metres of flexible hall space and meeting rooms, as well as a 260-seat restaurant, café bar and shops. Delegates also have ability to park on site. There are not many hotels who can compete with these numbers.
There is a new economy emerging around this growing opportunity as professional services are recognized and affiliated to drive value. For example, The University of Warwick, which also has sizeable facilities, now offers a production house as part of its service offer to customers, delivering experience, imagination and technical expertise across a range of expert event and video production services.
This includes event theming and bespoke staging, audio visual technicians, live event recording and streaming as well as onsite technical support. Everything a multi-
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national would expect to ensure a seamless and high professional event.
For facilities managers on university sites, the role is increasingly demanding and complex – it is no mean feat to keep pace with commercial need and the constant evolution of facilities, ensuring the environment and services remain ‘fit for purpose’.
As University Minister, Chris Skidmore MP said: “The UK higher education system already has a global reputation for quality.” According to the QS World University Rankings, UK institutions are globally recognized with four providers in the top 10, and 18 in the top 100 worldwide.
It is a natural extension that campuses can provide a backdrop for world class conference and events facilities which not only benefit businesses and organisations across the UK (and internationally), but are increasingly providing a valuable revenue stream for universities helping them to support, and build, on frontline education services.
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