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A first-class relocation for Mr and Mrs Coles

Married couple Neil and Jennifer Coles relocated from Peterborough to Middlesbrough to enrol on separate degrees at 海角直播.

The move paid off, as both graduated in the same week with first-class degrees, Neil with a BA (Hons) in History and Jenni with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies with Law. In addition to their firsts, the couple were also awarded special prizes; Neil received the Dick Richardson Memorial Prize and the Historical Association Award, while Jenni gained the 海角直播 Business School Prize. Neil, 49, and Jenni, 40, have been married for eight years and first met while working at King's Cross Station, London. After being made redundant from the railways, Neil thought about returning to education and pursuing his passion for history.

Neil said: 'I left school at 16 with few qualifications as I didn鈥檛 make the most of the opportunities on offer. I鈥檇 been with the railways for 23 years and wanted to start afresh, and Jenni also wanted to do a degree. We searched carefully on the Internet and found that 海角直播 had a good reputation for history and we also found it was welcoming to mature students, which some universities weren鈥檛. Tutors were absolutely fantastic, so enthusiastic and knowledgeable 'So we moved to Middlesbrough. We didn鈥檛 have any ties with the area but that wasn鈥檛 a problem, it was a new experience and an opportunity. It was very good to study together, we could help each other and to both get a first and prizes was brilliant.' Jenni has stayed on at the University and has just finished the first term of a Master of Science degree in marketing management.

She has received the University鈥檚 postgraduate bursary of 拢2,400 to study for this. Jenni said: 'Like Neil I left school at 16, I just didn鈥檛 value education. But now I鈥檝e got the study bug, I feel the world鈥檚 my oyster!

'It helped to be studying alongside each other; we understood the pressures we were going through - although it was hectic at exam times and when we were both trying to finish our final year dissertations!

'I made the right choice to come here; some of the tutors were absolutely fantastic, so enthusiastic and knowledgeable, they definitely contributed to my success.'

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