Writtle College Sports lecturer helps champion cyclist Alex Dowsett with record attempt
Senior Sports Lecturer Mark Walker is helping Commonwealth time trial champion cyclist Alex Dowsett with his Hour Record bid.
Mark Walker, who is course manager for the Foundation degree in Cycling Performance, has been giving Alex coaching support and is involved in training the Chelmsford-based cyclist for this record attempt.
Unfortunately the record attempt has now been put on hold after Alex broke his collarbone but Mark will be helping him back to fitness so he can go for the record.
Alex helped present the awards at one of Writtle College’s graduation ceremonies earlier this year.
Read more on the Road Cycling UK website on the link below.
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Horticulture student wins national scholarship
BSc (Hons) Horticulture student James Hayley is one of only six students across the country to be given the Student Scholarship from the David Colegrave Foundation.
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Postgraduate wins Landscape Institute award!
MA Landscape Architecture postgraduate Jacqui Jobbins won the student dissertation category in this year’s Landscape Institute awards and was runner up in the President’s Award!
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Postgraduate exhibits at Hayward Gallery!
Work by Liz Sterry (MA by Dissertation in Art and Design) was exhibited at the Hayward Gallery.
Liz Sterry's work, Kay's Blog, featured in End User, an exhibition in the Project Space at the Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
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Botanist and broadcaster James Wong attends Employability Week
Writtle College students gained specialist advice, guidance and information about potential career opportunities.
A wide range of industry experts - including botanist and broadcaster James Wong - attended the College's Employability Day.
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Writtle College lecturer is a contributor to the Professional Florists' Manual
Senior HE Floristry lecturer Julia Ryde was one of four floristry experts to contribute towards The Professional Florists’ Manual, a joint publication with the British Florist Association and the Society of Floristry Training Fund.
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Food and Farming Day at Writtle College receives award
Essex Agricultural Society has won £750 in Chelmsford City Council’s latest Grand Awards and will be putting it towards the running costs of the fantastic annual Food and Farming Day at Writtle College.
The Food and Farming Day sees around 3,000 Essex primary schoolchildren visit the College to find out more about where their food comes from.
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Equine students visit The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery
First year Equine degree students visited The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery at Woolwich and watched a high speed riding lesson, complete with ceremonial swords!
The WW1 guns, which fire the royal salutes, and the 111 new horse barracks also formed part of the trip.
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First year Agriculture students visit Clarksons at Ipswich Docks
Manager Julian Scott, a Writtle College graduate, and Stuart Attridge, from Harlow Agricultural Merchants, showed the students the import and export facilities for agricultural commodities. Stuart also explained the quality requirements of some crop markets.
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Floristry student's success at bridal competition
Second year Foundation Degree Professional Floristry student Ayane Shimazu, from Japan, came fourth in the bridal competition at Fleurex.
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Congratulations to the SU’s Tom Fanger, who completed the Tough Mudder challenge!
The 10 to 12 mile obstacle course – which includes giant ice baths, underwater tunnels, running through fire and getting electrocuted - tests all-round strength, stamina, teamwork, and mental grit. Tom is raising money for BackCare.
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Agriculture students assess potential of cover crops
Second year Agriculture degree students attended a farmer trials open day organised by Kings Seeds and Essex & Suffolk Water looking at the potential of cover crops.
The students are looking at the ecological benefits of cover crops. Working in partnership with a local farm, as well as Essex and Suffolk Water and Kings Seeds, they are working to maintain and protect the quality of drinking water and reduce inputs into crop production, thereby improving enterprise profitability and creating biodiversity.
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College sponsors Active Essex Sports Awards
Sports lecturer Greg Deacon presented automotive supplier Visteon with the Active Workplace of the Year at the Active Essex Sports Awards. Writtle College sponsored the category in this year’s awards.
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Conservation students visit wildlife-rich island
Students on the Conservation scheme visited Havergate Island, off the Suffolk coast, where they were hosted by the RSPB.
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Lecturer visits US to learn more about large scale dairy farms
A Writtle College lecturer has visited the US to learn more about their large scale dairy farms.
Dr Nicola Blackie, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science (Livestock Production and Welfare), is researching the influence of lameness on the feeding and lying behaviour of Holstein dairy cows. As part of this, she visited Kentucky to see how farmers are developing their facilities and managing their herds to tackle the challenge of growth, while maximising cow welfare and production.
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Horticulture students gain recognition from the Worshipful Company of Gardeners
A mother-of-two who was struck down with a potentially deadly lung condition while running her own garden maintenance business has been honoured with an award from the Worshipful Company of Gardeners.
Karen Hook, who was also studying for a horticulture degree at Writtle College at the time, was exposed to the potentially deadly Aspergillus fungal spores in 2008 while working with bark chip on clients’ gardens.
Writtle College Horticulture student Jocelyn Rose was also honoured with a Worshipful Company of Gardeners Prize after gaining First Class Honours in her degree.
Television presenter Julia Bradbury presented the pair with their prizes.
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Joint Essex Farming Conference - Food Production and Greening: Compatible or conflict?
How farming can respond to the challenges of food production and sustainability was the focus of this year's Joint Essex Farming Conference.
The event, organised by Essex Agricultural Society in association with Writtle College, examined the key issues surrounding the dilemma of how to feed the world’s expanding population – estimated to reach 9bn by 2050 - in an environmentally sensitive way.
Read the report of the conference by clicking on the link below.
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Writtle College part of innovative new network
Writtle College is part of a new network to help more young people across Essex go into Higher Education thanks to funding from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills worth nearly £500,000 over the next two years.
The Essex Collaborative Outreach Network - which is part of a £22 million national scheme - will cover Essex, Southend and Thurrock. It will be developing innovative and exciting ways to link-up with schools and colleges across the county to showcase how Higher Education can change people’s lives by offering a transformational educational experience.
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Animal Science graduate's dissertation study published by horse feed company
Lily Crockett, who graduated with a BSc (Hons) Animal Science in 2014, has had her dissertation findings written up by the horse feed company Dengie.
Her dissertation, completed at Lordships Stud, questioned hay net benefits.
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Environmental artwork at Writtle College
As part of their studies, students from the BSc Landscape and Garden Design course have made two environmental artworks in the beautiful grounds of Writtle College, allowing them to explore a range of issues, including their response to place.
The first work enabled students to make individual reposes to areas within the gardens and landscape; pictured here is a student creating circles from autumnal leaves. The students then considered potential community involvement and issues of place, before creating an environmental artwork using natural materials, which was lit with paper lanterns for one night.
The students reflected upon the process of making, the environmental and aesthetic impact of the work and the comments and interactions of the wider College community.
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Art and design lecturer curates exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy
Writtle College art and design lecturer Pryle Behrman was selected to curate an exhibition of experimental film and video art at the Royal Scottish Academy.
After a call for exhibition proposals organised by the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA), Pryle was selected to curate the exhibition in Edinburgh from 5 to 20 December as part of the SSA's 117th Annual Exhibition.
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WSD students visit Kings Cross new development
First year BSc Landscape and Garden Design students visited the new development at Kings Cross as part of a day visit to London exploring the design, use and care of hidden green spaces, large historic parks and reinventions.
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Urban drawing workshop
MA Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students enjoyed the Urban Drawing workshop led by the artist Alex Blum along the Thames at Rotherhithe London.
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Come to our next Open Day!
The next Open Day at Writtle College will be held on Wednesday 18 February.
Our Open Days are aimed at people who are looking to study at either degree (undergraduate) or Masters (postgraduate) levels.
The Day runs from 11am to 3pm and gives prospective students and guests the perfect opportunity to find out more about what's on offer at Writtle College.
Throughout the day you will have the opportunity to learn all about the College, meet course tutors, tour the campus with current students, discover student life here, and learn about the support available to students.
Pre-registration is essential for all of our Open Days. Please book using the link below.
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