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Students campaign for university building to be named after Wiley

By | Published on Thursday 29 January 2015

Wiley

Students from Queen Mary University in Bow, East London are campaigning for a proposed new graduate centre to be named after local musician Wiley.

In a petition addressed to university principal Simon Gaskell, Navaid Ghouri and Susanna Mollah write: “We believe that Wiley deserves the accolade of having the proposed graduate centre named after him as the ‘Wiley Graduate Centre'”.

They go on: “Wiley represents the drive and ambition that university is all about, and as our university is located in East London, we believe this is a fitting tribute. We are highly aware of the economic and social disadvantages in the area and want to raise ambitions”.

Several hundred people have already added their names to the campaign.



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