11. Universities

Many will know that I coordinate the Water Conservation Trust’s University Programme, supporting needy MSc students taking our subjects. On 12 August I visited Dr Dick Fenner who is a Senior Lecturer in Cambridge University's Engineering Department and is the Course Director for the taught MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. Our students are based at Sidney Sussex College. These visits are checks on our rules and I hope to visit all universities each year.

We have had a relationship with Brunel University for the best part of 10 years and our contacts Clive Gee and Mark Scrimshaw (both seen here with prize winner Girish Rambaran) met me on 19 July to talk about the course development, next year’s admissions and the upcoming talk at our Michaelmas Lunch by Susan Jobling. Maintaining our academic partnerships is important to the Company’s standing as well as ensuring that our bursary holders get the best possible start to a career in our sector.