Dive Deep & Dream Big: Guest blog by our Research Assistant – Education and Sustainability, Dr Renuka Thakore

Dive Deep & Dream Big: Guest blog by our Research Assistant – Education and Sustainability, Dr Renuka Thakore

As part of UCEM’s pledge to tackle climate change, Dr Renuka Thakore attended Dive Deep & Dream Big – an event bringing together activists and politicians to work on sustainable…

Podcast: Digging Deeper – Episode 2: Sustainability

Podcast: Digging Deeper – Episode 2: Sustainability

Episode 2 of Digging Deeper focuses on sustainability.   UCEM was recently audited by students for its National Union of Students (NUS) Responsible Futures reaccreditation effort. With several students and…

Student stories: Ashley’s passion for sustainability

Student stories: Ashley’s passion for sustainability

Why should we be sustainable? Our Surveying Technician apprentice (Quantity Surveying and Construction Pathway), Ashley White, became an advocate for sustainability after seeing the damaging impact on our ecosystem while…

Meet Brian Quinn – UCEM’s Sustainability Tutor

Meet Brian Quinn – UCEM’s Sustainability Tutor

As part of UCEM’s growing commitment to sustainability, the institution recently hired its first Tutor with a bespoke sustainability remit. Brian Quinn is a Sustainability Tutor who is part of…

Sustainable Futures Conference: Guest blog by our Research Assistant – Education and Sustainability, Dr Renuka Thakore

Sustainable Futures Conference: Guest blog by our Research Assistant – Education and Sustainability, Dr Renuka Thakore

UCEM recently hosted ‘Sustainable Futures: Progress through partnerships’ – an inaugural international research workshop for networking and partnership creation. Here, the organiser of the workshop, Dr Renuka Thakore, reports back…

Climate supercomputer, Environment Bill and BoKlok: Inside the March 2020 issue of Knowledge Foundations

Climate supercomputer, Environment Bill and BoKlok: Inside the March 2020 issue of Knowledge Foundations

The March 2020 issue of Knowledge Foundations is available to view now! In this month’s issue, you can read more on the following: UK invests £1.2bn into weather and climate…

Principal Thoughts: Why National Apprenticeship Week matters

Principal Thoughts: Why National Apprenticeship Week matters

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley rounds up UCEM’s National Apprenticeship Week publicity and urges government to deliver on their promises. Apprenticeships are…

National Apprenticeship Week visit round-up

National Apprenticeship Week visit round-up

Many of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) went to visit apprentices and their employers to mark National Apprenticeship Week last week.   We published a summary of the visits and…

Q&A with our Chartered Surveyor apprentice, Bayezid Ahmed: Guest blog by our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officer, David Meilhan

Q&A with our Chartered Surveyor apprentice, Bayezid Ahmed: Guest blog by our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officer, David Meilhan

As part of National Apprenticeship week, I went out to meet Bayezid Ahmed, one of our Chartered Surveyor apprentices on the Project Management pathway. I met Bayezid on site at…

National Apprenticeship Week 2020: Dispatches from our apprentice visits

National Apprenticeship Week 2020: Dispatches from our apprentice visits

We have a large team of Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) at UCEM to provide one-to-one support for our apprentices. Their role ranges from pastoral support to ensuring employers and apprentices…

Podcast: Digging Deeper – Episode 1: Apprenticeships

Podcast: Digging Deeper – Episode 1: Apprenticeships

Episode 1 of our new Digging Deeper podcast focuses on apprenticeships.   UCEM PR and Social Media Manager, Andrew Belt, is joined by UCEM Principal, Ashley Wheaton, UCEM Director of…

UCEM’s first apprentices: A year on

UCEM’s first apprentices: A year on

Not only does UCEM provide the educational training for apprenticeships, but the institution hires apprentices too. History was made in September 2018 when Georgia Haines and Nicole Hatton became the…