First degrees and first class job for Public Relations graduate
Friday, 17 September 2010
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BA(Hons) Public Relations graduate Ellie May was not only among the first graduating cohort from the course at University College Falmouth (UCF) this June, she also gained a First class degree and has now started her first job at the Merlin Project, Cornwall (Cornwall Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre) as their Communications and Corporate Events Manager.
"University College Falmouth was the first in Cornwall to offer a BA in Public Relations, as one of the first students to take the course I am over the moon to become the first student to gain a First on the degree," commented Ellie. "To be offered a job at the Merlin Project is an amazing opportunity for me to really put my degree in practice for a worthwhile cause with a team of wonderful staff and volunteers."
Loraine Long, centre manager, said: "We are delighted to have Ellie onboard; her skills will be a great asset to this very worthy charity."
Ellie attended Poltair Community College in St Austell prior to three years of varied and intensive study at UCF that developed her relevant knowledge and skills and has allowed her to persue a career in public relations.
Jon Cope, Course Leader of BA(Hons) Public Relations, said: "The PR course is designed for this very purpose - to prepare our graduates for professional practice and we are thrilled that Ellie is staying close by and is able to use all that she learnt whilst at Falmouth in her first job."
The Merlin centre continues to be the only one of its kind in Cornwall and offers Hyberbaric Oxygen treatments and a full and varied timetable of treatments for those living with MS, as well as anyone who feels they can benefit from treatments and therapies such as Physiotherapy, Therapeutic Massage, Aromatherapy and Yoga Class. www.merlinproject.org.uk
For further information about BA(Hons) Public Relations at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/publicrelations, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213856.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the right to award degrees in its own name. UCF has two campuses - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns and jointly manages with the University of Exeter).
UCF's merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008 created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Dance, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Dartington-based courses are relocating to Cornwall this summer to a high-specification £19M Performance Centre at the Tremough Campus that will launch in September 2010, paving the way for the creation of a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2013/2014 that will be unique to the South West.
The Performance Centre was a £19,036,000 project. The European Union's Regional Development Funds provided £12,266,667 to support the development with a further £3 million coming from the South West Regional Development Agency's Single Pot. The remaining investment funding came from the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Strategic Development Fund.
UCF is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One and Convergence), the South West Regional Development Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.
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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby Dip CIPR MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792, or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk
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