De Montfort University

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... who was the head of design at Leicester Polytechnic.

Fabulous, yes.

Now in London.

And, you know, one wonders why she's ended up in DCMS, to be fair at this stage, Nick.

Well, I mean, I suppose they might look at some of these MPCVs and look at her LinkedIn page and think, well, she's got a degree in drama and business studies from De Montfort University.

She's a perfect candidate for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

But you'd have thought maybe some of those sort of performance aspects of her training might have come to the fore a little bit more, but...

I did a spring semester, my sophomore year of my bachelor's degree.

I went to De Montfort University in Bedford, which is about an hour, hour and 15 minute train ride outside of London.

And you would think, well, it's like not that much different culturally, but really just being thrown into a different country that, you know, time change.

And even though everybody speaks English, the words are different, the culture is different.

Now, imagine going to an anti-racism workshop expecting to take part in a discussion about equality, only to be told you can't attend because of your age and race.

Well, that's what Police and Crime Commissioner Rupert Matthews says happened when he turned up at an event at De Montfort University.

And he joins me now to tell us all about it.

Welcome, Rupert.

So, Rupert, take us back to the beginning.

You're the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire and Rutland.

So why did you actually decide to go along to an anti-racism workshop at De Montfort University in the first place?

OK, well, a big part of being Police and Crime Commissioner is sort of acting as a bridge between the public and the police.

In May 23, she was named Leicestershire's Law Society Trainee Paralegal of the Year.

Chloe began her studies at the University of Leicester before making the decision to transfer to De Montfort University.

Her placement year bolstered her career in law, leading to her training contract and qualification as a solicitor.

Alongside her budding legal career, Chloe is a passionate advocate for social mobility, diversity, and widening the access to the legal profession.

Looking at this one, it's the same again, isn't it? Coventry Jets are historically quite a good team.

DMU Lions have been on a good run recently.

Leicester Longhorns, having come down from Div 1, teams that drop from Div 1 tend to do quite well when they settle into Div 2.

Nottingham Green...

Yeah, I think so, yeah.

They'll come in and people will be like, oh, they haven't been in this division for a few years because I think they used to be in here, then got moved, and then they've been moved back.

So I think they could be the surprise package because everyone's going, as you guys said, DMU, Leicester, Coventry, the

established teams, potentially, you could say, in this division or in this region.

Nice

... at DMU University.

Uh, one of them is in the second year, which is chemistry.

Uh, and the other one, which has, uh, which has, uh, contracted, uh, a microbiologist.

We always love them.

Uh, must just mention before we go, uh, personal thanks to everyone who looked after me at De Montfort University in Leicester this week, which, uh, they, they put on a great occasion, so thank you to everyone there.

And the next episode of the Football Daily ahead of the Manchester derby will be the football interview with City defender Ruben Dias, who's a really good talker, so that will be well worth listening to.

Oh.

normally see.

Yeah, well, at this time of year, beginning of september i always think about i i think about going my first day at art school at leicester polytechnic

and i think

and i remember you know i remember that feeling of going to art school where you've dispensed with all the subjects that you didn't like you've done your a levels all the hard work's over and you can just be an artist now and it was just yeah i just felt like it was such a joyful experience going to art school that that first time where i can just make art all day and then yeah then the reality dawned on me that you know i'd have to do live drawing and i wasn't very good at it and stuff like that

Yeah.

I mean, I can mix brown, and that's about it, or gray.

I remember when I was in my art foundation at Leicester Polytechnic way back when, in 1987, I had a teacher called Bob Franklin, and I can't remember.

I wouldn't imagine Bob's still around these days, but amazing teacher.