The Universities at Medway:Impact Report
THE UNIVERSITIES AT MEDWAY: IMPACREPOT RT 2 INTRODUCTION The Universities at Medway is a unique Since 2004, it has grown to welcome The Universities at Medway partnership between Canterbury Christ more than 10,000 students to its commissioned Viewforth Consulting to Church University, the University of campus each year. It provides a range carry out a study of its economic impact Greenwich, and the University of Kent at of academic and professional learning during the financial year 2015/16. This a shared campus at Chatham Maritime. opportunities, with a focus on report is based in part on the findings The partnership was established in 2004 education, health and social care, of this study and explores the positive and in the 15 years since, it has made a engineering, business, journalism and impact that the Universities at Medway real difference to the lives of people the creative industries. The Universities has on the social, cultural and studying, working, visiting and living in at Medway is a core part of the strategic community life of the Medway area Medway. In its role as an educator, economic development plans for and the south-east region. employer, research institution, cultural Medway, supporting the area’s potential and sporting hub, and community as a ‘city of culture, learning and organisation, the Universities at enterprise.’ Medway has a major impact. 3 OUR IMPACT IN NUMBERS Economic impact: Supporting local jobs: More than More than £143m 1,587 contributed to Medway’s FTE jobs in the south-east economy dependent on our
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