Scientist to unveil new £10m campus
LEADING SCIENTIST Professor Lord Winston will next week officially open a multi-million-pound education campus aimed at addressing a skills shortage in the technology sector.
Lord Winston, who has presented leading BBC television series including and the BAFTA award-winning
will visit the £10m University Technical College (UTC) Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park campus.
He will meet some of the 129 students as well as staff, governors and employers, tour science labs and unveil a commemorative plaque on Tuesday next week.
Dr Sarah Clark, the principal at the UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, said: “We are thrilled that Lord Winston will launch our fantastic facility where young people develop the knowledge and skills for computing, health sciences and sport science careers.”
The site on Old Hall Road in Attercliffe Common, which specialises in computing, health sciences and sport science, opened to 14 to 19-year-olds in September last year. Students at UTCs complete technical qualifications, as well as GCSEs and A-levels, to progress onto apprenticeships, employment or university. Sheffield is the only city outside of London to have two UTCs.
Lord Winston is Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London as well as the Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University.
The city’s first site, UTC Sheffield City Centre campus in Matilda Street, opened in 2013 and specialises in advanced engineering and manufacturing and creative and digital studies.