Staff at the University of Bristol will welcome an expected 20,000 visitors on Saturday for the last open day of 2022. And they anticipate a boost for local businesses, especially those near its Clifton campus, as prospective students explore the city.
The influx of potential applicants will get a taste of the undergraduate courses on offer, student life and pastoral support provided by the university, with subject talks, building tours, demonstrations and workshops taking place between 9.30am and 4pm. Between these hours, residents and businesses should expect increased traffic particularly around the heart of the campus: Tyndall Avenue, Woodland Road, Queens Road and the Triangle.
There will also be some road closures in place - Tyndall Avenue, Woodland Road and Priory Road will be closed to general traffic to allow a shuttle bus services to operate. There will be a one-way system in place from St Michael’s Hill, along Tyndall Avenue, turning right onto Woodland Road and exiting at Tyndall’s Park Road.
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The First Bus service 72 will divert via Queens Avenue, Elmdale Road and Tyndall’s Park Road in both directions. Buses will stop at the bus stops on diversion routes. The U2 service will operate as usual.
Student life sessions will showcase accommodation, the university careers service, wellbeing support services, scholarships and 350 sports groups and societies. They will also detail additional support available to disabled, BAME and LGBTQ+ students.
Visitors will even have a chance to sample the city’s outstanding culinary offering, with pop-up street food stalls serving everything from burgers to Middle Eastern- influenced vegan dishes. Tansy Jessop, the university’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education, said: “Welcoming excited prospective students and their loved ones to the university is one of the highlights of the year for us.
“Over two days in June this year we showed around 30,000 people what a fantastic place Bristol is, both to study and live, and we can’t wait to do it again. Once again, we hope the day will showcase Bristol to a new audience, while also giving a bumper day to local businesses.”
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