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Going Virtual A huge thank you to everyone who has participated in our recent virtual Open Days. It is a challenging prospect to create a new type of event from scratch, but everyone rose to the challenge and the feedback from prospective students and parents alike has been very positive. The virtual classrooms created an opportunity for students to virtually visit us in a similar way as they would during a campus based Open Day, and this style of event proved very popular. In conjunction with the Open Days themselves we have also created a new Virtual Open Day website, www.bedfordcollegegroupopendays.co.uk, which has received hundreds of visits since its launch on 10 June. For those that have not yet seen it, the new website features location pages for each campus, including 360 images of a range of classrooms and facilities on-site, as well as an overview video from Ian Pryce and short
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videos about the subject areas available. The plan is to expand on this going forwards, to provide a place for visitors unable to visit ‘on the day’ to look at the campuses in a little more depth as well as linking to all the resources provided by our existing websites. Our next virtual event will be the A-Level Clearing day on 13 August and GCSE Results day on 20 August, so we hope to see you in your virtual classrooms again soon.
July 2020
