University's Knowledge Gateway research park moves forward (From Gazette)
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University's Knowledge Gateway research park moves forward
9:12am Thursday 3rd January 2013 in News
BUILDING work on a £21 million business school at Essex University has begun.
Preparation work for the Essex Business School, part of the 42-acre Knowledge Gateway research park, was kicked off on Wednesday morning.
However, there remains no starting date for construction of the development’s centrepiece, the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution designed by world-famous architect and university alumnus Daniel Libeskind.
Building work has already begun on the first part of the development - The £22 million Meadows student housing campus with 650 bedrooms - which is due to be completed by August this year.
University bosses are also finalising a funding agreement for a £2.4 million loan from the South East Local Enterprise Partnership to build the Parkside Office Village.
See Thursday's Gazette for the full story
Comments(10)
zt00013
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1:40pm Thu 3 Jan 13
Education is the best long term investment one can make. The construction industry will be boosted immediately. The increased capacity of the university means more residents and more pounds spent in Colchester. 'Stuff' costs money, I'm glad investment is running into a fine institution that will benefit all of Colchester providing jobs and giving a quick injection to re-invigorate the construction industry.
Please explain the reasons for your comment? Or where would you want your tax payer money spent, I suppose you would moan and complain whatever the outcome. Boring little englander.
jammin
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1:58pm Thu 3 Jan 13
totallyfootball
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2:07pm Thu 3 Jan 13
zt00013 wrote:Looking after the elderly that have looked after us all these years, not to someone who in years to come will be either no better off or over qualified and having to sponge off the benefits system. This town has enough educational outlets in my opinion. However when my mother was fit enough to live in her wn home she got £60 per week pension, now they want £400 per week to look after her in a home.
@totallyfootball
Education is the best long term investment one can make. The construction industry will be boosted immediately. The increased capacity of the university means more residents and more pounds spent in Colchester. 'Stuff' costs money, I'm glad investment is running into a fine institution that will benefit all of Colchester providing jobs and giving a quick injection to re-invigorate the construction industry.
Please explain the reasons for your comment? Or where would you want your tax payer money spent, I suppose you would moan and complain whatever the outcome. Boring little englander.
What will you be paying when you get there or are you going to do what you are doing now and looking short term? As for your personal comments you obviously did not attend one of these establishments as insults in this country are the mark of some one with low or limited intelligence or maybe you are not from this country and just getting what you can out of it? Have a good year.
totallyfootball
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2:10pm Thu 3 Jan 13
jammin wrote:Exactley, subsidizing the world as per usual with our tax payers money.
Whilst I agree eduction is money well spent, not many students at Essex uni are from the UK!
Scoot
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5:42pm Thu 3 Jan 13
Boris
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11:06pm Thu 3 Jan 13
totallyfootball wrote:They are subsidising us. Our students pay far too much, but foreign students pay a lot more. And still, they come - from China, Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan, wherever.
jammin wrote:Exactley, subsidizing the world as per usual with our tax payers money.
Whilst I agree eduction is money well spent, not many students at Essex uni are from the UK!
Essex University must be doing something right or these people would not be coming here.
Our University is certainly not perfect, but since we no longer export ships or lathes or fans or diesel engines, we should be happy that we export education.
Dillinga
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8:20am Fri 4 Jan 13
totallyfootball wrote:I wonder which educational establishment taught you to spell so well or to be so open minded?
jammin wrote: Whilst I agree eduction is money well spent, not many students at Essex uni are from the UK!Exactley, subsidizing the world as per usual with our tax payers money.
romantic
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8:45am Fri 4 Jan 13
totallyfootball wrote:The students from overseas pay far more than those from the UK. They will bring money to the local economy in the short-term. Their money subsidises the education we give to our own youngsters.
jammin wrote:Exactley, subsidizing the world as per usual with our tax payers money.
Whilst I agree eduction is money well spent, not many students at Essex uni are from the UK!
Longer-term, the foreign students who do come here will often later continue their associations with Britain. Some of them will eventually become customers in companies which buy British.
This kind of development has done wonders in Cambridge, and will hopefully also provide some employment for people locally. We should welcome it as a positive development for our town.
zt00013
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11:39am Fri 4 Jan 13
I found it very amusing that in response to my assertion that you were a 'little englander' you suggested that I was probably foreign and a scrounger, you certainly are a boring little englander.
totallyfootball says...
10:24am Thu 3 Jan 13