Bristol and Gloucestershire universities make headlines over student pathways and leadership
A senior health appointment at Bristol, GCSE-transition advice from Gloucestershire, and the obituary of a former Bristol student show universities’ varied place in local news this week.
The University of Bristol said a molecular epidemiologist who led a major study to help schools prevent and cope with a possible COVID-19 outbreak during the pandemic will return to the institution in January 2027 as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Health and Life Sciences [1].
The University of Gloucestershire said young people collecting GCSE results in Gloucestershire this week are being reminded that there are different routes into employment, further study and university [2][3][4].
The Bristol Radical History Group reported that Hedley Bashforth, who died suddenly in May at the age of 74, first came to Bristol to attend university in the early 1970s and later became involved in politics as an activist, agitator, party officer and trade unionist [5].
Taken together, the reports show universities in Bristol and Gloucestershire appearing in local news this week as sites of senior recruitment, student-transition messaging and personal political history [1][2][3][4][5].
Sources
- University of Bristol press office: Former Bristol academic returns to the University to take up role as Pro Vice- Chancellor for Health and Life Sciences
- Gazette Series: GCSE results don’t define your future, says University of Gloucestershire
- Stroud News and Journal: GCSE results don’t define your future, says University of Gloucestershire
- Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard: GCSE results don’t define your future, says University of Gloucestershire
- Bristol Radical History Group: Hedley Bashforth
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