Birmingham City University runs a £3.3 million business skills and growth project, providing local companies with access to graduate recruits, interns and project staff with the skills businesses need to grow; a Higher-Level Skills Match service to support SME’s to recruit and upskill. Find out more here.
Birmingham City University has partnered with GBSLEP and GBCC to drive business growth amongst SMEs across Greater Birmingham. Growth Hub is a business growth service launched by the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) . Growth Hub provides regional SMEs with coordinated, effective first class business advice, links to funding, and business support services. The aim […]
STEAMhouse is Birmingham City University’s innovation centre aimed at encouraging co-working, collaboration and knowledge exchange between the arts, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEAM) sectors as a platform for supporting long-term sustainable economic growth, productivity and job creation. Created in collaboration with local arts organisation Eastside Projects, and supported by the ERDF and Arts Council […]
STEAMhouse is Birmingham City University’s innovation centre aimed at encouraging co-working, collaboration and knowledge exchange between the arts, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEAM) sectors as a platform for supporting long-term sustainable economic growth, productivity and job creation in the West Midlands region. Created in collaboration with local arts organisation Eastside Projects, and supported by […]
Eliminating Malaria by Strengthening Health Programme Management in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa Every year some half a million people die from malaria, a disease which exists in nearly 100 countries. Focus for enhanced malaria programme performance is often placed on the technical challenges, while human and organizational factors are often overlooked. Research conducted by […]
The Foundry at UWE, Bristol was part-funded by the Institute of Coding and is delivering a range of new courses to tackle skills shortages in digital technology. The Foundry hosts a high-profile calendar of technology outreach and engagement events across cyber security, computer science, creative technologies and STEM subjects designed to widen participation around coding […]
UWE Bristol turned their Exhibition and Conference Centre into a 300-bed NHS Nightingale Hospital in response to the pandemic in 2020. Read about the opening and how they pulled it off below. The NHS Nightingale Hospital Bristol was officially opened by HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, on the University of the West of England […]
With campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford, and Peterborough, Anglia Ruskin University is one of the leading universities for police education in the UK. A new partnership means they will now deliver training for police forces across the South East as part of a major overhaul of police officer training. New Police Constables will enrol on a […]
Anglia Ruskin University’s Law Clinic, set up in 2018, works with local law firms to provide free, independent and confidential legal advice to people who otherwise might struggle to obtain it. Since its inception they have helped over 1,000 clients across Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough. The clinic also includes a website to help local residents […]
The University of Hertfordshire’s toxicology research group was asked by the US Department of Health and Human Services to investigate chemical weapon decontamination processes. Hertfordshire invested in large-scale testing facilities to allow researchers to simulate human exposure to hazardous substances and to evaluate mass casualty decontamination outcomes. The research resulted in the development of new […]
