Open Day Subject Sessions Wheeler
November 2025
Welcome to Wheeler Overlooking the River Dee, Wheeler is located within Chester city centre and is just a 25-minute walk from Exton Park. Wheeler has its own café, an extensive library, computer suites, study areas and a student common room. With outstanding subject-specific facilities, including clinical skills laboratories, simulated wards, a Virtual Reality cave, and a mock courtroom, you’ll find a diverse range of courses being delivered by the following schools at Wheeler: Chester Medical School Chester Medical School is a medical school for the community, within the community. The focus is to learn, stay and contribute locally, developing a sense of place, sensitive to population healthcare needs. School of Law and Social Justice Sitting right next door to Chester Crown Court and close to Chester Magistrates’ Court, students on our legal and policing courses are right at the heart of the action in Chester. School of Nursing and Midwifery The School of Nursing and Midwifery has the facilities, expertise and collaboration with external partners needed to give our students the opportunity to enter a dynamic and exciting professional world across all our subject areas.
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Subject Sessions Chester Medical School Subject
Session Type
Time
Room
Graduate Entry Medicine
Marketplace Information Talk Information Talk Simulation Ward/ Suite Drop-In
10:00 - 15:00 10:30 - 11:30 12:30 - 13:30 11:00 - 15:00
Wheeler, Room CRV139 Wheeler, Room CRV119 Wheeler, Room CRV119 Wheeler, Third Floor, Medicine Simulation Suites
School of Law and Social Justice Subject
Session Type
Time
Room
All Courses
Marketplace
10:00 - 15:00
Wheeler, Room CRV139
Law/ Law with Criminal Justice/ Subject Talk and Tour 10:30 - 11:45 Law, Business and Commerce Subject Talk and Tour 13:30 - 14:45
Riverside Innovation Centre, RIC004/3 (1A)
Degree in Professional Policing
Subject Talk and Tour 10:30 - 11:45 Subject Talk and Tour 13:30 - 14:45
Wheeler, Room CRV323
Policing, Law and Investigation (Top-Up)
Subject Talk and Tour 10:30 - 11:45 Subject Talk and Tour 13:30 - 14:45
Wheeler, Room CRV323
School of Nursing and Midwifery
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Subject
Session Type
Time
Room
All Courses
Marketplace Simulation Suites/ Demonstrations and Activities
10:00 - 15:00 10:00 - 15:00
Wheeler, Room CRV139 Wheeler Second Floor
Nursing
Subject Talk
10:30 - 11:30 12:00 - 13:00 13:30 - 14:30
Wheeler, Room CRV249
Midwifery
Subject Talk
10:30 - 11:30 13:30 - 14:30
Wheeler, Room CRV112/116
Return to Practice Nursing
Subject Talk
13:00 - 14:00
Wheeler, Room CRV208
Nursing (MSc)
Subject Talk
12:00 - 13:00
Wheeler, Room CRV249
Subject Sessions Queries If you have any questions about applying for courses, you can speak to our Admissions staff in the following locations: • Health, Medicine and Society: 10am - 3pm, Wheeler, Room CRV139 • Law and Policing: Seaborne Library, Exton Park • Finance are also available in the Marketplace.
Course Information and Site Tours Enjoy a subject session to find out more about your subject area, the courses we offer within each discipline and the facilities available to you. You can visit our marketplace to speak to support services and lecturers and students from your chosen course, before heading to Exton Park.
Visit Our Exton Park Site After looking at Wheeler, we encourage you to visit Exton Park where you can look at our student accommodation, have a tour of the campus, meet the Students’ Union and find out more about student support, accommodation, finance and our wide range of extracurricular activities. Directions to Exton Park can be found on page 6.
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Getting to Exton Park
Sat Nav/Google Maps CH1 4BJ
Walking from Wheeler to Exton Park 25-minute walk Exit out of the main entrance of Wheeler onto Castle Drive
Driving from Wheeler to Exton Park 10-minute drive
Turn left onto Castle Drive
Exit out of the main University car park at Wheeler, turn left and then left again, onto Castle Drive.
Turn left onto Lower Bridge Street
Turn left onto Lower Bridge Street
At the crossroad, continue onto Bridge Street
Take your second left onto Castle Street
At The Cross, turn right onto Eastgate Street Turn left immediately onto Northgate Street
At the roundabout, take the second exit onto A5268/Nicholas Street Continue on A5268 through five sets of traffic lights
Continue forward until the Fountains Roundabout
At the roundabout, take the first exit onto A5116/Upper Northgate Street
Proceed through the subway; follow signs for Parkgate Road
Continue straight onto Parkgate Road/ A540
Continue along Parkgate Road The University’s main entrance will be on your left-hand side
Turn left into the main entrance of Exton Park
A shuttle bus service is available throughout the day, departing from the front of Wheeler, and from outside of the NoWFOOD Centre at Exton Park. (see page 15 of your Exton Park Open Day Guide). Shuttle buses will be running from 9:30am to 4:00pm. 6
Exton Park
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General Enquiries: 01244 511000 Admissions: 01244 511000 / admissions@chester.ac.uk Events: 01244 512800 / visitus@chester.ac.uk Network: UoCGuest
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