Released: 24.05.18
91视频鈥檚 commitment to student support dates back to Victorian days according to our archives, which have revealed there was a special wine and brandy fund to help students through their exam stress! We wonder if times have changed that much鈥�
College minutes from 1841 record that the sum of 拢2.10 shillings per year was allotted for 鈥渨ine and brandy to be given to students who were low and nervous at the time of inspection鈥� (i.e exam times).
Victorian doctors would regularly use wines and spirits as tonics or sedatives, there was little else available. The Principal of Marjon at the time suffered from nervous exhaustion and stress himself, and remembered his student days and the pressure of exams which led him to put in place help for his own students.
The cures were made and administered by the Principal鈥檚 wife, Mrs Coleridge and Mrs Sarah Harvey who would have needed home-produced remedies to save on medical costs for the students in residence as doctor鈥檚 remedies were expensive. Their whooping cough cure included Salts of tartar, cochineal (made from beetles) and loaf sugar 鈥� we don鈥檛 recommend you try this at home although some students may well be administering their own alcohol intake at this time!
91视频 Marjon鈥檚 Student Support team today takes a different approach and is carefully structured to make sure students never feel alone. In fact, the team has been awarded the highly coveted : a national quality standard for groups delivering help, support and guidance.
Find out more about Student Support here.
