The pioneering future engineering university, NMiTE, being created in Hereford, was inaugurated on Friday, October 19th with full civic pomp and ceremony at Hereford Cathedral.

The ceremony reflected how far the project has already come, with a growing faculty and radical approach, ready to recruit Britain’s most ambitious student engineers into its initial intake in September 2019. NMiTE is the first in a wave of new higher education “challengers” the government is encouraging to launch, to give students better choices and bring fresh approaches to teaching.

Attendees included the project’s supporters, MPs, local business leaders, and members of NMiTE’s Design Cohort of gap-year and postgraduate co-creators, and children from local schools.

The event saw the unveiling of NMiTE’s academic robes. Isla Kendall, Head Girl at John Kyrle High School, read a prayer during the service. The service was attended by many civic dignatories and leading education figures, and the county’s MPs, Jesse Norman and Bill Wiggin, also attended.See the full story in this week’s edition of the Ross Gazette, or subscribe to our online edition here