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Keele goes Virtual
With big gatherings and events
postponed or restricted for the
foreseeable future, Keele has
continued to find innovative ways of
engaging with recent graduates and
prospective students.
Keele hosted its first ever virtual
Class of 2020 celebrations in July to
encourage students, staff and alumni
to celebrate their accomplishments,
which reached over 250,000 people.
With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic
preventing summer graduation
ceremonies from taking place this year,
the virtual Class of 2020 aimed to bring
everyone together to celebrate, and
was a great success.
The online event hosted
across our Keele social media
channels featured Facebook live
streams, sharing memories and
congratulatory messages using the
#KeeleClassOf2020 hashtag, and
school-specific celebrations.
These online celebrations were by
no means a replacement for formal
graduation ceremonies which are
planned to take place in 2021, but
rather a way to show how proud we
are of our students' achievements in
the meantime. You can watch it here.
Keele also launched its first ever virtual
open day on the 20th June, giving
prospective students the opportunity to
tour the University from home.
The online event aimed at 2021
undergraduate starters, included an
immersive interactive 360° tour of our
600 acre campus, a chance to ask
questions of current students and
academic staff, and an opportunity
to take a look at on-campus
accommodation and chat with the
accommodation team.
Over 5,000 people visited the virtual
open day web pages, double the
amount that pre-registered in advance
of the event, with over 3,000 viewing
the academic talks pages. Prospective
students from over 65 countries
worldwide also tuned in to see what
Keele has to offer.
The walking tour of campus with a
Keele ambassador answering student
questions live on Instagram reached
almost 4,000 people in total, with a
366% increase in Instagram page
views compared to our daily average.
LinkedIn Learning available to the
graduating classes of 2019 & 2020
Keele wants to continue to support
graduates from the leaving classes
of 2019 and 2020 by inviting them to
enhance their career and personal
development through LinkedIn
Learning FREE until July 2021.
LinkedIn Learning is an online
educational platform that helps you
discover and develop business,
technology-related, and creative skills
through expert-led course videos.
With more than 5,000 courses and
personalised recommendations, you
can discover, complete and track
courses related to your field and
interests.
To take advantage of this offer, please
complete this short form here and
unlock access to on-demand courses
to help you learn more and achieve
success.
We would also like to remind our
alumni that as a graduate you
can make appointments with our
Careers Consultants, gain access to
hundreds of resources and attend free
workshops and event sessions for up
to three years after you graduate.
Did you graduate in the last
recession of 2008/2009? If so, we
need your advice!
Our colleagues in the Careers and
Employability Team are really keen
to have some encouraging stories,
advice and guidance about job hunting
in a recession. They would like to
share video clips and sound bites with
recent graduates and those who are
coming up to their final year of study,
to help them navigate the potentially
choppy waters of employment and
job prospects ahead of them, as we
continue to manage the impact and
aftermath of Covid-19 on the global
economy.
Did you find you were adversely
affected? If so, what did you do? Did
it make you change your career path?
Did you have to make difficult choices,
which have since worked out? How did
you promote yourself and your skills in
a volatile workplace?
If you have any first-hand experiences
or are happy to impart advice that
can be shared with our most recent
Keelites, please email us at AlumniHQ.
Keele Drama Society offers
membership to Drama Alumni
members.
May 2021 will mark 70 years
since Keele Drama Society’s first
Shakespeare production. The Society
has set up a new type of membership,
exclusive to Drama Alumni. Alumni
can join the society for free as an
associate member, to receive exclusive
alumni newsletters, exciting deals and
surprises throughout the year. To find
out more, visit https://keelesu.com/
activities/society/drama/