NMITE

Jesse first campaigned to establish a university in Herefordshire in 2007, and is one of the founders of the county's pioneering new university project, the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering, or NMITE. Jesse has helped raise over £25 million to get NMITE launched.

NMITE has three objectives: 

-- to give fantastic education opportunities to young people in Herefordshire and the Marches, and beyond; 

-- to give a massive boost to the economic base of the county, supporting local businesses, building skills and attracting in new talent; and 

-- to create a new kind of small, high-quality, low-cost teaching university that can be adopted to boost other parts of the UK in turn.

NMITE is already having a transformational effect. Its corporate partners now include BAE Systems, JCB, National Grid, the Environment Agency. 

NMITE students are already getting excellent, well-paid jobs in engineering, whether after the 2 year, 2 month accelerated BEng course, or the 3 year accelerated MEng course. And it only opened its doors in September 2021!

NMITE News
NMITE
20 November 2023

Our new local university project, NMITE, continues to go from strength to strength.
Jesse hails "massive breakthrough" for Herefordshire's new university project with grant of new degree awarding powers
24 July 2023

Local MP Jesse Norman has warmly welcomed news today that the government's Office for Students (OfS) has granted new degree awarding powers to NMITE, Herefordshire's pioneering new university project.
MTC@NMITE Joint Venture
5 April 2023

Last year I had the opportunity to visit the remarkable Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. The MTC is a huge, state-of-the-art set of facilities dedicated to showcasing the very best of today's manufacturing technologies.
Jobs Pledge
17 February 2023

Sixteen years ago, in the spring of 2007, I was a newly selected parliamentary candidate to stand as MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire. It still feels like yesterday.
NMITE’s New Student Accommodation
12 January 2023

It has always been part of the long term vision for our new university project NMITE, not only that it should boost the economy of the whole county, but that it should act to regenerate Hereford itself.
Jesse welcomes Skills Minister to Hereford
4 February 2022

Local MP Jesse Norman was delighted to welcome the Government's Minister for Skills, Alex Burghart MP, to Hereford last Thursday. 
NMITE
2 February 2022

As this column went to press, it seemed likely that NMITE, our own Herefordshire university project, would be mentioned in the White Paper this week on the Government’s flagship policy of Levelling Up across the UK. And it was.
NMITE pioneers a radically different offer to its students
5 August 2021

We are now in the last month before NMITE opens its doors for the first time on September 6th. It is incredibly exciting to think that an institution is about to be born that--with our continued collective love and support--could lift the economy and well-being of Herefordshire and the Marches forever.
Jesse Norman backs Ignition to help NMITE aspiring engineers
20 May 2021

In February 1825 the poet Thomas Campbell wrote a remarkable open letter, in which he drew attention to the fact that there was no higher education of any description in London, and he called for the creation of a London University.