£20M NEW VET SCHOOL IS JUST ANIMAL MAGIC!
State-of-the-art facilities officially opened
A NEW multi-million pound veterinary school building has been officially opened at Keele University.
The building is already home to hundreds of students who are benefiting from its high-quality facilities as they train to become veterinary professionals.
Featuring brand new anatomy and clinical skills laboratories, the building, which hosts students of the Harper and Keele Veterinary School – a joint venture with Harper Adams University – also boasts modern teaching facilities, a lecture theatre, and break-out areas for group study.
The development, which signals an investment of about £20 million in the university’s campus and Staffordshire, was officially opened by Professor Lord Trees, the only vet in the House of Lords and former President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Lord Trees toured the new site alongside the university’s vicechancellor Professor Trevor Mcmillan. He also took time to speak to some of the school’s current students about their careers.
The Harper and Keele Veterinary School is one of the UK’S newest veterinary schools, and welcomed its first intake of students in 2020.
Combining the medical and life sciences expertise on offer at Keele
University, with the agricultural and animal science pedigree of Harper Adams, students at Harper Keele Vet School benefit from a unique blend of expertise combining academic and practical experience.
Second-year student Melissa Field said: “I have a love of animals and I’m really interested in learning about science, sustainability and research, so this is a profession which combines all of those really well.
“The building is fantastic and we feel very lucky to be learning in such a modern and well-equipped facility.
“On my second day here we were already putting what we had learnt in a lecture into practice, and you can’t beat that practical integration compared to just sitting in a lecture theatre.”
Professor Matt Jones, Head of the Harper and Keele Veterinary School, said: “The building is a wonderful home for us at Keele. It is an exceptionally well-designed space in which to work and study as well as to engage with the wider local and regional communities.”
Professor Jonathan Wastling, Keele’s pro vice-chancellor and executive dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, said: “Together with the state-of-art farm animal and veterinary education centre at Harper Adams, the Harper and Keele Veterinary School offers some of the most up-to-date and comprehensive facilities for veterinary education in the UK.”