Engineer awarded highest mark worldwide

Engineering student Gareth Keeves awarded the highest mark worldwide

An Engineering student at St John's College has beaten hundreds of fellow scholars across the world in a prestigious examination. Gareth Keeves, 21, was awarded the highest mark worldwide for the Diploma in Financial Management.

Gareth, in his final year of a Manufacturing Engineering course at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), came top out of a total of 1,022 students taking the DipFM course.

The diploma, run by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, is aimed at middle or senior managers in non-accounting roles and gives them a working understanding of finance and the ability to work confidently with financial information.

Students on the IfM's Manufacturing Engineering Tripos take the course as part of their studies in order to understand the financial aspects of business leadership.  A modest Gareth said: "I was completely taken by surprise when the certificate came through, but absolutely delighted with the result."