The new digital reading room in the library is fantastic for students
because it’s a space that you can share and showcase your work, it’s a place where you can collaborate,
build things together, but also bring your own technology.
It’s somewhere between an informal social space and a more formal study space.
It’s a place where you can bring a coffee, it’s a place where you can talk,
it’s a place where you can collaborate with each other,
but what the rooms also doing is it’s a physical manifestation of everything we’re trying to do
with the digital campus. The digital campus is about connecting people with technology,
it’s about becoming a digitally fluent confident university.
So it’s your work, on your terms with your tech.
In some ways it’s quite unusual to go to this level of effort and cost to conserve a mosaic of this quality,
but actually because of its poorer quality you can actually see the craftsmanship behind it.
You can see the sort of direction that they were laying the stones in.
It’s these little human touches in it that you can see that are really important because
they give you those glimpses into how it was made, who made it, their attitude to work,
that gives you that real insight into the people of Roman Leicester.
I’ve been here from April 3rd and since that time I’ve been working with Professor Jayne Marshall,
professor of midwifery, working towards being an accredited institution by the Nursing Midwifery Council,
which is the first stage before we proceed to course development.
It will be a partnership with the local NHS Trust
and I enjoy working with Dave and I think we complement each other very well.
Myself and Jayne over the past few months have become great colleagues and great friends.
My aspiration is to be one of the top ten UK nursing programmes within the next five years.
Collaborative partnership,
it’s not about the professor telling or instructing the business professionals,
it’s about facilitating and fusing together new ideas, new knowledge and best practice.
And how progressive organisations like Sytner can support their professionals
to deliver value and outstanding customer experience.
It really does reset our expectations of what customers expect
and our customers’ expectations have grown over the years and we’re trying to always exceed those.