“Success By Design” in Rio2016
As most will have read, seen or heard by now, the 67 medal haul by GB in Rio is the first time in Olympic history that a nation has improved its medal count the...
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Our First Alumnus
Today, York St John is 175 years old. It’s supposed to be 175 years and one week old, but things didn’t work out quite as intended on May 10, 1841. The college, then at Monkgate...
Busy Day In The Heritage Room
A couple of Wednesdays ago the Heritage Room was a busy place! In addition to booking myself on a one-hour tech session on the use of QR and AR codes, and planning on going...
My Amazing Family and Me – Alumni Stories, Jesse Toksvig-Stewart, and Kat Willott
Jesse Toksvig-Stewart and Kat Willott are graduates of York St John University, having both studied a Degree in Television and Film Production. In our latest alumni stories blog, Jesse explains how after graduating from...
Blood and Water – Alumni Stories, Beth Daley
Graduating with my Masters in Literature Studies and Creative Writing from YSJ in 2006 was just the beginning of the story. In more ways than one. My final fiction piece for the course was...
Working at the Cannes Film Festival – Alumni Stories, Alexandre Mexis
Dear Friends, I was an Erasmus student at Ripon and York St John from September 1992, to June 1994. I now teach both English language, and English literature in Fréjus, in the South of...