This Week: ARU Peterborough is the East of England's newest higher education provider, created for a specific set of socio-economic purposes by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, Peterborough City Council and Anglia Ruskin University.

ARU Peterborough is addressing the skills shortage that threatens an otherwise strongly performing economy, limiting local firms and giving incoming businesses pause.  

Host and Executive Producer Mike Rigby is joined by the inaugural (and current) Principal, Professor Ross Renton, and Chair of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Business Board, Al Kingsley MBE, to discuss the genesis of the campus, the awards for social mobility, its importance to the region and its steps towards becoming a standalone institution in 2023.

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