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Swindon archive

2008

June

• Free GCSE Physical Education summer school offered to local pupils
• Talented school pupils to design and build rockets at Uni

May

• New home for Syntacta translation services

April

• Get creative at a free arts and advice week in Swindon

March

• Young people to get creative at University this Easter

February

• New programme of free public lectures for Swindon

January

• Public lectures: new lunchtime programme for Swindon

2007

December

• New short courses for local business people
• New part-time courses for spring

November

• University decision on the Oakfield Campus
• Set sail at a lunchtime lecture
• University to consider future of the Oakfield Campus
• Public lecture: the birth of photography and the art of making photograms
• Public lecture: The future of hospice care in the UK
• Porter to present first copy of his book to colleague
• Public lecture: Bristol’s music and musicians in the region, nation and empire
• Teenagers have film selected for festival final

October

• Region’s top businesswomen to share success stories
• Public lecture: The history of death and dying
• University offers free business courses for Enterprise Week
• Public lecture: Thomas Stephens, the forgotten Wiltshireman and his mission to the East
• Enterprising school students enter Dragon’s Den
• Families invited to get drawing

September

• Porter meets author at University that inspired him to write
• Staff discounts for part-time evening and day courses
• Free public lecture: the climate change debate
• Seminar promises to grow business fast
• Translation firm launches language news online
• New short courses for local business people
• Wiltshire’s inspirational landscape: lunchtime lecture
• New business courses for women
• Local schools invited to find out about foundation degrees

August

• Workshop to teach self-coaching skills
• Young people create green art
• Retail work opportunities to be showcased at careers event
• Young people create time travel puppets
• New part-time courses for autumn
• Enterprise course cooks up Indian cuisine
• New networking group for local businesswomen

July

• Innovation success for Swindon
• Coaching workshop gives a sporting perspective
• Eggs laid in the UK by the world’s largest flying bird mark huge conservation success, says scientist
• Young people get creative at University
• Women invited to enterprise open day
• Pioneering youth coach gives workshop
• Swindon schools gain new teachers
• Women invited to experience motorsport

June

• Business award for artistic entrepreneur
• Swindon school students give university a go
• Eggs encourage school students into engineering
• New Starters in May 2007
• Extra tuition helps pupils to consider university

May

• Business seminar to kick-start sales
• Phil Merrick elected to Chamber of Commerce
• Epic seminar offers adventurous route to success
• Primary pupils to find out about university
• New courses to tackle region’s engineering skills shortage
• E-Mentoring inspires Swindon school students
• Are you interested in hosting a visiting French student this summer?
• George Alagiah speaks at Oakfield
• New Starters in April 2007

April

• Finance seminar simplifies the figures
• Free seminar asks why supervision?
• George Alagiah on A Home from Home
• Writers and place: a lunchtime lecture
• Technology and enterprise greet the Duke of Kent at Oakfield
• The Duke of Kent to visit Oakfield
• New Starters in March 2007
• Dragster fun for school students

March

• School students give their own Wallace & Gromit a go
• Senior DTI officials meet Swindon success story
• Free public lecture: Avebury’s early excavators
• Business people invited to breakfast with an expert in entrepreneurship
• Literature Festival director gives public lecture
• Oakfield director invited to House of Commons
• New businesses join Swindon Innovation Centre
• Creative arts and advice to inspire carers
• Enjoy a Neolithic lunch
• Free public lecture: The Irish in 19th century Britain
• University of Bath withdraws from Gateway project
• Council approves withdrawal from the Gateway project

February

• Free public lecture: the Silk Road retraced
• University inspires school students in science
• Free public lecture: 21st century cave dwellers
• Staff meeting regarding the Swindon Gateway project
• School students invited to four days of fun and film-making
• Free public lecture: The successful reign of Mary Tudor
• University of Bath reconsiders proposed new campus at Gateway, Swindon
• Senate recommendation to withdraw from the Gateway project at Swindon
• Senate to discuss developments regarding proposed new campus in Swindon
• Free public lecture: religion and conflict in Northern Ireland
• New Starters in January 2007

January

• Small businesses to get expert help at breakfast seminar
• Story of Aston Martin racing car to be revealed at public lecture
• Swindon Innovation Centre hosts conference
• New seminar series in coaching and mentoring
• Local business people invited to free motivation event
• University gives school students an insight into science
• Networking event for women in business

2006

December

• University challenges staff in Swindon to save energy
• Local business people invited to free marketing seminar
• Local business people invited to free leadership and marketing seminar
• Swindon figures to receive honorary degrees at the University of Bath
• New Starters in November 2006
• Chippenham student wins prestigious scholarship

November

• New part-time courses: enrolment starts for next spring
• Local people invited to shape theatre in Swindon and Wiltshire
• Lunchtime GULPS taste success
• Bishop of Swindon visits Oakfield
• World without wires: opportunities in personal wireless technology
• Free public lecture reveals prehistory of the Vale of Pewsey
• Climate change action plan
• University of Bath in Swindon newsletter
• New Starters in October 2006
• Free public lecture gives the facts on science fiction
• Enterprise Fair supports local business people
• Free public lecture: Jesus and the Earth

October

• Free lecture makes science accessible
• Free public lecture: the beauty of Islamic art
• Free public lecture: The mystery of the Minoans
• Local company enters high stakes ‘Dragon’s Den’
• Swindon Film Festival 2006
• Conference at University of Bath in Swindon focuses on domestic violence
• New Starters in September 2006
• Free lecture: Linda & Ada - what is the Lovelace connection?
• Last minute places for part-time courses in Swindon

September

• Eminent local peer visits Oakfield
• ICIA’s co-commission of Walker Dance Park Music’s 5 2 10 previews at Royal Opera House, London
• Innovation Centre puts electronics company on road to global success
• University signs 'green energy' contracts
• MA in Education for Swindon teachers
• New Starters in August 2006
• Open evenings to launch new part-time courses at the University of Bath in Swindon
• Intel director visits Oakfield

August

• Works of genius: Brunel's engineering achievements and their legacy
• New Starters in July 2006
• Young people get creative in educational arts weeks
• Funding secured for summer schools
• Learning for life and leisure: enrol for new autumn courses

July

• New staff at Oakfield
• New business award for female entrepreneur
• Free training: become a coach or mentor

June

• Free training for small-business owners
• Young people get a taste of university life
• Free training for coaches and mentors
• An enterprising idea for women
• Mum of six on her way in the business world

May

• Oakfield hosts major new theatre project
• Swindon residents invited to University open day
• Demand in Swindon leads to new course for adult learners
• Spend a day indulging a passion
• Free public lecture: Brunel’s flagship of the Industrial Revolution

April

• Launch of the Swindon Businesswomen’s Breakfast Club Make it Happen Award

March

• Take the first step to launching your own magazine
• Predictions for the future of new media
• Free public lecture: Crossing Greenland’s ice cap
• Free public lecture: Tales from an Edwardian kitchen

February

• Free public lecture: Is Swindon a solar city of the future?
• Clare Short on the dangers of an economically divided world
• Free public lecture: The flaws in our food system
• Free public lecture: Clare Short MP looks at the dangers of a divided world
• Free public lecture: The Lydiard Park project
• Open your doors to a new experience and host a student this summer
• Free public lecture: the Cotswolds reveal the secret lives of Neolithic inhabitants

January

• Free public lecture: The quest for antimatter
• In celebration of our 40th anniversary
• The new Jaguar arrives in Swindon
• £3.8 million for Swindon-based project to fill local training gaps
• Swindon initiative wins highest rating for helping women entrepreneurs
• £750,000 business projects to launch in Swindon
• Get your business in the news

2005

December

• University welcomes Inspector's endorsement of plans for new Swindon campus
• Lifelong Learning students receive awards

November

• Swindon woman wins photography competition
• Official presentation for Oakfield graduates
• Free lecture: The poetry of the skies
• Free lecture: Voices from the edge - spirituality and justice

October

• Free public lecture on the legacy of the Cold War
• Swindon is solving its teacher shortage
• Learn how to innovate successfully
• Swindon MP praises female entrepreneurs
• Full-time students settle in at Oakfield
• Hot tips from the UK’s top ten female entrepreneurs

August

• Swindon company helps businesses remove alcohol and drugs in the workplace
• New member of the Lifelong Learning team

July

• Mobile telephone “scratchcard” interface creates new opportunities for mobile marketing
• Swindon company to launch new mobile phone technology
• Opportunity to study early childhood
• Swindon-born academic to receive honorary doctorate
• Syntacta wins its very own London bid!

June

• What is a Foundation Degree?
• Twenty quid to think of a name...

May

• Swindon-based Economics students set to graduate this summer
• A chance to learn what's on offer at the University of Bath in Swindon
• New degree at Oakfield to train local social workers
• Fergal Keane talks about his memoir at Oakfield Campus

April

• Planning for Swindon Gateway Site is sought

March

• Insider magazine: Inside story - What's going on at Oakfield?
• Local school children learn to think irrationally

February

• TheatreWorks - a new arts initiative for Wiltshire & Swindon

January

• Few young people in Swindon going to university, says report
• Mentoring Scheme opportunity for business women
• Talk on War Graves Commission
• Make a positive start to the New Year

2004

December

• Universities win £13 million to boost business and enterprise.
• New Year brings new opportunities for Swindon residents

November

• New institute to solve productivity problems is proposed for Swindon
• Local Entrepreneurs Gain Access to Marketing Skills

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