…successful and both have contributed to other media outlets, including ITV news, I Newspaper, Birmingham Mail, Drapers, Retail Gazette and local and national radio stations. In March 2021 Sophie’s partner was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma (blood cancer). Sophie’s response was to start training for a 10K run and raise £2845 for Lymphoma action from donations by colleagues and friends. Her energy, inclusiveness and positivity are examples to all…
…and professional education since the industrial revolution and are still crucial to the success of cities and sectors today, educating the professional workforce of the future, providing flexible and responsive R&D to businesses of all sizes and solving the problems facing society locally, nationally and across the globe. We are large enough to take risks, experienced at working with key partners and have never lost the enterprising mindset which…
…iral, Atradius, GM Financial, Julian Hodge Bank, Composite Legal Expenses, Finance Wales, Optimum Credit, Grant Thornton, Principality BS and the BBC Finance Centre of Excellence. The MSc Financial Services delivery is at the University of South Wales. The Programme is designed to offer talented young professionals a reason to stay in the region and to strengthen the growing position of Cardiff and south-east Wales as a location of choice in the f…
…tre. Old notions of a ‘job for life’ are becoming a thing of the past. The World Economic Forum has predicted that over 7 million jobs will become obsolete – and that’s just in the next half decade. For Britain to compete globally, we need more job-ready graduates with the transferrable skills, agility and resilience to thrive in an era of unprecedented technological change. An ability to work across borders and alongside those from other cultures…
…egions. It will do this by awarding grants to small businesses that have struggled to access finance through other means. Vince Cable visit to Plymouth University with Prof Wendy Purcell, Vice Chancellor, and Prof Julian Beer, Director of Research and Innovation, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Regional Enterprise, Research and Innovation) Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “I applaud this initiative of Plymouth University and Western Morning News. It’s a…
…ghtly, taking a whole system approach to looking at HE funding and student finance. In my view, however, the greatest risk is that the Review takes a mechanistic or structural approach to analysing the whole system problems and fails to recognise that the biggest barrier is likely to be an adaptive challenge; a fundamental conflict of values. It is clear that there is need for system reform and I have great confidence in the Review team’s ability…
…dent Recruitment Team undertook a major restructure, uniting home and international recruitment teams as ‘Future Students’ (FS). The team reframed their approach to campaign planning, monitoring, and content creation, improving team culture, integration, and market share versus direct competitors. In partnership with UCAS, they conducted a ‘leaky hosepipe’ review, identifying gaps in their student recruitment strategy. A recent staff survey wa…
…was a nao robot, which is part of a project by PhD research student Ariel Ruiz-Garcia from the university’s School of Computing, Electronics and Maths. His project is studying emotion recognition and empathy imitation in a social robot. (See the video at the end of this blog). Social robots can provide companionship for the elderly and assist with treatments or like Kaspar from the University of Hertfordshire help teachers and parents support chi…
…me is still the graduation ceremonies for our apprentices. The next one is today (Friday 4th October) at our base in Myatt’s Fields Park. David, Alan and Troy will be rewarded for all their hard-work and efforts over the last year and we will celebrate all they have achieved. It is so exciting to see Streetscape continuing to train young people and help them find and retain work. It is why we do what we do. You can find out more about Streetscape…
….com/watch?v=GbeAIl0Wn6I April 2020 webinar (DNACPR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePJKT9MZRXA&t=626s YouTube channel with all webinars to date: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQLenTftiiC_cFo0aaE-lA/videos BBC news report (incl interviews with GRASSroots group and Prof Tuffrey-Wijne), who contacted us following our webinar on vaccination: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55732177…
