Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Making things better, the gender pay gap and a pet’s playground

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Making things better, the gender pay gap and a pet’s playground

Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. This week, Lucy looks at the latest RICS Modus magazine’s…

Student stories: How studying with UCEM changed Sara’s life

Student stories: How studying with UCEM changed Sara’s life

This month’s ‘Student stories’ blog comes from a recent graduate of ours, Sara Kelleher, who studied on our BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management programme from 2013-2018. She tells us her…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Attending an apprenticeship workshop. Guest blog by our Events and Communications Manager, Hannah Peck

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Attending an apprenticeship workshop. Guest blog by our Events and Communications Manager, Hannah Peck

On Tuesday (5 March) I spent the day in London at one of our Surveying Technician Apprenticeship workshops. In my job as Events and Communications Manager I don’t often get…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Debi Gaskin-Palmer shadows our Lambert Smith Hampton apprentices, Alex Clifton and Jack Deakin in Lincoln

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Debi Gaskin-Palmer shadows our Lambert Smith Hampton apprentices, Alex Clifton and Jack Deakin in Lincoln

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we are sending out four of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) to shadow several apprentices throughout the week. The shadowing opportunities will provide our AOOs…

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Reasons to be cheerful

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Reasons to be cheerful

Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. This week, Lucy decides to give news about Brexit a…

Student stories: Ranikque’s determination to become a Quantity Surveyor

Student stories: Ranikque’s determination to become a Quantity Surveyor

This month, we are publishing the first in a new monthly blog series looking at individual student stories. The blogs will provide an opportunity to give current UCEM students the…

My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by Jonathan Hubert, UCEM’s BSc (Hons) Building Control Programme Leader

My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by Jonathan Hubert, UCEM’s BSc (Hons) Building Control Programme Leader

First Built Environment experience I finished school at 18 but didn’t get the grades needed to undertake the Philosophy and Economic History degree at the University of Bristol I had…

#UCEM100: Introducing the plans for our Centenary year!

#UCEM100: Introducing the plans for our Centenary year!

Today (7 January, 2019) is the day we officially launch our centenary year – a moment we have been building up to for many months! What’s special about today, you may…

Principal Thoughts: Reflections on five years at the helm

Principal Thoughts: Reflections on five years at the helm

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. In this edition, Ashley reflects on his five years as Principal of UCEM, selecting five highlights from a momentous period…

RICS Matrics Young Surveyor of the Year Awards 2018: Our apprentice and alumni nominees in focus

RICS Matrics Young Surveyor of the Year Awards 2018: Our apprentice and alumni nominees in focus

At the end of September, we learnt that 11 of our apprentices and alumni had been nominated in various categories for the RICS Matrics Young Surveyor of the Year Awards…

UCEM Property Awards 2018: Alumni of the Year – Meet the nominees

UCEM Property Awards 2018: Alumni of the Year – Meet the nominees

Scores of guests will head to Haberdashers’ Hall in London this Thursday for the 31st UCEM Property Awards. As well as the main Property Award – which goes to a…

Principal Thoughts: Higher Education Policy must cater for part-time students too

Principal Thoughts: Higher Education Policy must cater for part-time students too

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. In this edition, Ashley calls upon the government and media to include alternative learning routes when discussing higher education, urging…