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Apprentice Facility Extends at Culham
The UK’s leading training provider for the building services engineering sector, JTL, has extended its learning facility at Culham Science Centre to offer mechanical engineering apprenticeships. Refurbishment works are underway to create a training workshop with booths for apprentices to practice building services installations such as plumbing and installing heating and ventilation systems. The 3,050 ...
Reaction Engines score a century …
Reaction Engines Ltd, one of the larger tenant companies on the Culham site, last week celebrated a notable milestone – their 100th employee. The high tech company, founded in 1989, which is developing the ground breaking SABRE air breathing rocket engine that will enable aircraft to operate at hypersonic speeds and/or direct access to low ...
New centre brings ‘exciting times’ for apprentices in the Oxford area
The plans to build the new Oxford Advanced Skills (OAS) centre on the Culham are coming to fruition. http://www.oas.ukaea.uk/ The new facility is being built to help resolve the skills shortages facing high technology and engineering companies in Oxfordshire. When completed, it will eventually train 125 young people a year, and is a joint venture ...
Have your say
The People in Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Environments (PAVE) consortium, based at Culham Science Centre, is tasked with working alongside government and industry partners to carry out the study, which will include asking the public for their views on this new technology. Members of PAVE include the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham-based RACE facility, Westbourne ...
Bike to Work event – 16 June
We already know that many of our staff and tenants are already converted to the benefits and pleasures of cycling. This was shown earlier in the month when they turned out in high numbers (nearly 80 of you) to support our annual Bike to Work event. Including, for the first time, Janice and Mark Cleverly ...
MAJOR CHANGES TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECTING CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE
BUS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE 24 JULY 2016, the Thames Travel 114 Service between Wallingford and Abingdon and the T2 service from Oxford to Abingdon will no longer serve the Culham Science Centre. The 114 service is one of many bus services that have been reduced or withdrawn due to the subsidies ...
Bike Week 2016 • 11-19 June 2016
On Thursday 16th June, Culham Science Centre will be taking part in Bike Week – and will be helping to make the nation’s annual celebration of cycling bigger and better than ever in 2016! As our Bike to Work event is registered with Bike Week, staff who sign up for Culham’s event via https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/16june16 Not ...
Science Minister signals a new era for Culham Science Centre
Jo Johnson MP opens two specialist hi-tech facilities at Culham. UK Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson MP visited Culham Science Centre on Monday 23 May to open two specialist hi-tech facilities developed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) at the site. RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) is a robotics test centre for ...
UK Atomic Energy Authority announced as Apprentice Team of the Year Finalist
Apprentices from the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Culham have been named National Finalists in the search for the Apprentice Team of the Year, after winning the London and South East regional title. After three months of hard work between teams from over 50 of the country’s leading apprentice employers, training providers and colleges, ...
GET HANDS-ON! GET INVOLVED! GET INSPIRED!
With our full programme set to release in early May, we couldn’t wait to share some of the exciting and inspiring events that will be happening during the 2016 Oxfordshire Science Festival with you. Check out our festival highlights below. 2016 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS GET HANDS-ON AT OUR SCIENCE FAIRS Oxford Science Fair – Sat 25/Sun 26 ...
