Students Abigail Gurr and Stuart Watson are to travel to Slovenia to speak at the European Outdoor Education Conference on the subject of augmented reality uses with autistic young people. Abigail is graduating in October in Outdoor Adventure
⚽️ | “I’ve always been interested in local football and starting a radio show on it just seemed like a natural progression for myself and Jack,” - Mike Parrish, Sports Journalism student. Mike Parrish and fellow student Jack Horswell have
Speech & Language Therapy Career Day Friday 4th May 2018, 9:30–12:30 Would you like to find out more about an exciting career working with children and adults who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties? Speech and language therapists
Our next Open Days are Friday 8 and Saturday 9 June 2018. Join us for subject talks and practical sessions, campus tours and the chance to chat to course tutors and current students. Click to sign up or to find out more:
Get yourselves down to Plymouth Albion RFC on Monday 19 February for some HUGE Varsity rugby matches against Plymouth University! Tickets are £7 in advance, available from the Marjon Student Union hatch or £10 on the gate. Good luck!
Marjon students are… Going Places We’ve launched a new campaign to enable alumni and friends of the university to support current students to have global experiences. The campaign, Going Places, is a fundraising scheme that will enable donations
This week we hosted the Devon Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for a strategy day, using the facilities on offer in The Edge to support and develop actions in delivering the plan. Great to see the space in such good use!
Today we held a ceremony on campus remembering former St Mark and St John students who lost their lives in times of war. We also unveiled a plaque with the names of 12 more former St Mark or St John students who lost their lives during World Wars
Today we welcomed year 4 children from schools throughout Plymouth to our Science Day. Together, with the help of Rhythm City Dance Studio, Argyle Community Trust, Plymouth Science Team and Bruce Robinson's 'Wonder Workshops', the children focussed
BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs and Disability Studies is now led by Dr Jonathan Harvey. Jonathan's expertise includes identity and disability as well as daily lives of chronically ill and disabled people. He told us: "The course is unique,
Marjon is one of ten universities selected by The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) to join a pilot scheme for endorsement of UK sport and physical activity-related degrees. Read more:
| We'll now be offering funding support to our Football Development & Coaching students who wish to study for their UEFA B Licence! ⚽️ Our first cohort of students studying for the qualification are pictured below with lecturers Phil Brown and
Today, after two years championing our students, Elias McGill's term as President of Marjon Student Union comes to an end. Thank you so much Elias for all your hard work. We asked Elias to tell us about the 'best bits':
#LeicesterStayStrong message connects the continents. Marjon student Geoffery Gulzar is studying for a semester at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He rallied his classmates to send a message of support to the people of Leicester, his home town
#WeAreMarjon “I was working in a quarry, ready to go to work at 5am and I had this epiphany. I asked myself if this is what I wanted to do with my life. This moment of panic pushed me on to doing something else. I wanted to do something active but
Do you want to train to teach foreign languages? Do you want to develop a second foreign language? We offer summer subject knowledge enhancement courses in French or Spanish. These are fully funded, face-to-face courses with 2 weeks abroad in either
This week we celebrated the launch of Marjon University Cornwall which offers postgraduate qualifications to teachers, education leaders and other education professionals. If you would like to find out more you are warmly invited to Open Evening on
Click and drag your mouse or move your phone for a 360-degree look around one of our teacher training classrooms. Teachers who train at Marjon are the top earners in the South West and Wales (LEO data, Department for Education, 2017). It's not too
Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope will chair the Research Round Table for Teacher Recruitment, Retention and Development at the International Council for the Education of Teachers in Texas, United States, this weekend. Tanya says: “Teacher recruitment,
| Look what arrived in the post today for #MarjonGrad next week! These hoodies have been ordered by some of our Class of 2018 and will be collected at Graduation next week. We can't wait to see you all!
Congratulations to Dan, Ryan, Emily, Lauren, Nathan, Geoffery, Megan, William, Dale, Bridey, Heather and Charlotte. All won places with Camp America at a recruitment event this weekend. Could this be you next year? Did you know that MarjonFutures
The University will be closed again on Friday 2 March and all classes are cancelled, due to a forecast of continuing heavy snow. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Stay safe. .
We’ve recently launched Going Places; a campaign that will help students to have global experiences thanks to Marjon alumni and friends of the University. ✈️ This is Geoffery’s global experience: "Through Marjon University I was able to
Happy Birthday Marjon! On this day, 95 years ago, St. John and St. Mark’s College was born. The Times announced, “The National Society has decided to amalgamate the Training College for Schoolmasters at Battersea with that at Chelsea, under the
Click and drag your mouse, swipe or move your phone to take a 360-degree look around our central quad. If you are thinking of applying to Marjon and would like to take a campus tour then we can arrange one at a time that suits you. You'll take the
✅ No. 2 university in the UK for teaching quality. ✅ Top 10 university in the UK for student experience. Source: The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019. See for yourself at Open Day on Wednesday 28 November. Register now for more
Congratulations to students Jean-Luc Zephir (left) and Tom Fannon (right) who have been selected to compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Tom will swim for Team England and Jean-Luc for St Lucia; both train with Plymouth Leander
Plymouth Marjon University and Plymouth Albion RFC together offer aspiring rugby players the chance to develop their rugby careers whilst studying for a university degree. Our Senior Rugby Academy accepts up to 10 rugby-playing applicants per year
Speech and Language Therapy Careers Day - find out more about a rewarding exciting career working with children and adults who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties. More: http://bit.ly/2BSSD89
♂️♀️ | Meet your Resident Life Coordinators on campus, Sophie and Matthew. They're the people to get in touch with if you have comments on just about anything! Social events? ✅ Problem on campus? ✅ Suggestion for the future? ✅ If
Our last Open Day of 2018 is on Wednesday 28 November. Register now for more info: https://www.marjon.ac.uk/courses/open-days/open-days/ We are able to contribute up to £50 towards travel costs when schools and colleges bring groups to Open Day. If
| We’re delighted to announce that our aspiring student journalists will be able to get closer to real-life action when they move into new premises at the BBC’s regional headquarters in Plymouth! ✍️ Find out more https://bit.ly/2Ksn5s1
I was seven when my mum died, and I had to move from Pakistan to England with my younger sister to live with my dad. It was hard at first, not speaking the language, but I remember a bunch of lads asking me to play football and from then on I
To mark #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek another Marjon student shares her own experience of studying whilst managing a mental health condition. https://bit.ly/2La2tEL
We are proud to be the match day sponsor as Plymouth Argyle Football Club.take on Southend United Football Club at Home Park today. We work closely with our partners, Argyle Community Trust, to deliver a football degree. Offering built-in
Congratulations to the Marjon Men’s Football fourth team on winning the Devon Wednesday League Fair Play Shield. Captain Todd Coulthard (pictured) told us: “The team started off with not much ambition to win the league or any cups, but just to