How Grrreen is your shed?

• My Grrreen Shed showcases sustainable design
  
• Featured as a new installation at Grand Designs Live
  
• Competition to win a garden shed

Who would paint their garden shed pink and call it a ‘Love Shack’? All will be revealed when Birmingham City University unveils eight, individually customised, garden sheds in a new installation called ‘My Grrreen Shed’ at Grand Designs Live, at the NEC  Birmingham on 10th - 12th October.

5124/TS 29th September 2008

Youngster’s dreams come true as they make their way to the red carpet

Forty six, excited movie-mad youngsters made their way across the red carpet at Birmingham’s Odeon cinema this week, for the glitzy premiere of their horror film ‘The Sweeper.’  Birmingham City University’s Film School provided the youngsters with a unique opportunity to showcase their creative work in front of an audience of 170 people.

24th September 2008

New virtual radiotherapy system opens in Birmingham

Students at Birmingham City University are today amongst the first in the country to use a virtual reality system to teach them how to treat patients with cancer.

5122 24th September 2008

Birmingham City University students exhibit at prestigious London show

Two final year students from Birmingham City University’s Product Design Course will showcase their designs at the prestigious TENT show during London Design Week.

5123 19 th September 2008

Mint, lime and olive - Birmingham business leaders are all shades of green

Recycle, recycle, recycle is the overwhelming message and area of concern for city business leaders, as Birmingham City University reveals the results of their research to explore attitudes and perceptions surrounding green issues both at home and work.

5120/TS 18 th September 2008

Birmingham business leaders tune in to green debate

With a panel of sustainability experts and an audience of Birmingham’s business leaders, Birmingham City University’ Big Debate has provided a new forum for the development of green strategies in the work place.

5119/TS 18 th September 2008

New sounds on radio are broadcast from Birmingham City University

The streaming sounds of the region’s newest radio station are live this week, as Birmingham City University’s broadcast journalism students take to the mic to launch their new station Shine Radio.

5116/AT 9 th September 2008

Bromsgrove-based business shows healthy progress with university’s quality support.

Entrepreneurial and innovative small Worcestershire company, Hugo Technology, is thriving despite the country’s current economic woes. Based on a quality-led service to the UK’s hospitals and doctors’ practices, it is growing through meeting a vital national need.

408BS0808 - 8th September 2008

University produces award winning fashion designer

Vivienne Westwood has been named as one of the designers who influenced former Birmingham City University student Amina Ahmed, who won the Asian Woman Young Designer Award 2008. The award was given by the international publication Asian Woman Magazine.

5115/KB 8 th September 2008

Student launches new website for Midlands music scene

• Media enterprise course leads to online music magazine for locals
• New website to showcase musical talent in the West Midlands
• University student’s studies help promote local music scene

5114/KB  2nd September 2008

Landscape Architecture academic is awarded professorship stateside

Kathryn Moore, Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University and former Landscape Institute President, has been asked to take up the prestigious position of Thomas Jefferson Foundation Visiting Professorship at the University of Virginia, USA this autumn.

RP/5113 1 st September 2008

On the spot offers: still a healthy option for Clearing

It’s not too late for potential Clearing students hoping to study for a career in health care at Birmingham City University, as they will have the chance of being offered a place on the spot by the University’s academic tutors.

5012/KB 18th August 2008

University’s new TV advert showcases quality and talent

• Advert made using University’s avant-garde camera equipment
  
  
• Birmingham City University’s acting graduate stars in new commercial
  
  
• University’s heritage brought to the fore

A new TV advert by Birmingham City University will showcase the educational institute’s cutting edge technology and the talent it produces by featuring one of its top recent graduates from the Birmingham School of Acting, part of the University.

5111/KB 11 th August 2008

Clearing 2008 just around the corner

For many students getting the job they want is the main reason they choose to take a university course - so a Birmingham University is asking students to seriously think about their choice of university before the A Level results are published next week.

5110/SA 11 th August 2008

Young Leaders or Green Saviours

• Birmingham City University hosts Big Debate
• Event set to empower business decision makers
• More than 300 local business leaders to attend

Are the next generation of business leaders capable of effecting real change to the green agenda?  Birmingham City University certainly thinks so and has created a new event - The Big Debate to empower the next generation of business leaders to translate their passion and views on sustainability into action at work.

5108 / TS 5th August 2008

Dare to be Digital

• Birmingham City University supports students to create computer games
• Teams are using state-of-the-art facilities at Birmingham’s Screen Media Lab
• Project forms part of an internationally renowned competition

Birmingham City University is supporting talented computer science and art students to design and create the next generation of computer games. 

5107 / AT 5th August 2008

Watch our students scoop prizes

• Birmingham City University students win watch design competition
• Designs to be made into ‘real watches’
• Competition launched by international watch-making company

Students from the School of Jewellery at Birmingham City University are celebrating after scooping a number of prizes in a prestigious watch-design competition.

5108 / SA 5th August 2008

Birmingham City University realises film making dreams

• University helps local students to make a film
• Project forms part of Government initiative
• Film to be screened at Birmingham Odeon cinema in September

Birmingham City University is offering 46 movie-mad youngsters with a unique opportunity to test out their film-making skills as they direct their way to their first red carpet.

5106 / AT 5th August 2008

Top ten success for University in national teacher training guide

A national training guide has named Birmingham City University’s Faculty of Education a top ten provider of teacher training. The University scored seventh place success for secondary school and ninth for primary school training in the Good Teacher Training Guide 2008.

5105/KB 1st August 2008

Birmingham City University bucks national teacher training trends

Recent newspaper headlines have been concerned about drop-out rates on teacher training courses and about the number of teacher training graduates who do not actually progress into teaching as a career. (see this article from the Independent)

5104/SA 23rd July 2008

Birmingham architect elected first ever female president of RIBA

Local architect and academic, Ruth Reed, has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

The achievement is particularly notable as not only is she the first ever female president of the Institute but also the first in living memory to be elected from the West Midlands region. She will become President Elect on 1 September 2008 and will succeed the current President, Sunand Prasad, on 1 September 2009.

5103/SA 23rd July 2008

Local school pupils help university in robotic challenge

Pupils at a Great Barr primary school have been helping lecturers at Birmingham City University develop a new robotic computer game to help children with literacy and numeracy skills.

5102/SA 23 rd July 2008

BSA Graduate commended in spotlight showcase

Birmingham School of Acting (BSA) graduate, Iris Roberts, has been highly commended in this year’s Spotlight showcase, a drama competition for acting graduates.

5101/DV 21 st July 2008

Birmingham City University hosts skills competition

This week nine competitors from across the country will take a 14-hour practical test at Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery to become the UK’s Jewellery Skill champion.

5100/SA 21 st July 2008

Third automotive, powertrain symposium announced by Birmingham City University

The third Advanced Powertrain Control Symposium is to be held at the Technology Innovation Centre (TIC), Millennium Point, by Birmingham City University’s Technology, Innovation and Development faculty, on 27th November this year.

402SE0608TP 15th July 2008

Potential first lady president at 100 year architecture celebration ball

A ball to celebrate 100 years of Architecture at Birmingham School of Architecture, part of Birmingham City University, will be attended by the next potential president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

5097/KB 17th July 2008

Health care graduates to scoop awards

Excellence in health care education will be celebrated at Birmingham City University on Friday July 18 th when current and former students gather for the University’s annual Health Care Awards.

5089/SA July 15th 2008

Planning Application Submitted for Birmingham’s Eastside

• Outline planning application submitted to Birmingham City Council
  
  
• Major development of Birmingham’s Eastside
  
  
• Formal planning decision expected by end of December

Birmingham City University submitted an outline planning application on 27th June for its 55,000 m2 flagship development in Birmingham’s Eastside. The formal planning decision is not expected until end of December 2008.

10th July 2008

University celebrates double Ofsted success

Teacher training at Birmingham City University goes from strength to strength. After achieving grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ scores for its secondary teacher training courses just three weeks ago the University has now been recognised by Ofsted for the quality of its primary teacher training. Ofsted has awarded the University grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ scores for the quality of training and the management and quality assurance of the training it provides for new primary school teachers. This latest endorsement confirms the University’s status as a Category A provider of both secondary and primary teacher training – very few providers in the country manage to achieve this standard. Category A is the highest grade awarded by the Training and Development Agency (TDA) for the quality of teacher training.

5095/AS 9 th July 2008

Logistics Academy for the West Midlands concept launch at Birmingham City University's Technology Innovation Centre

Birmingham City University was selected as the launch pad for a skills delivery infrastructure proposal, on behalf of Skills for Logistics (SfL) – an employer-led, national, Sector Skills Council. Some 30 professionals from the supply chain, logistics and transport management fields, assembled in the University’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) to hear SfL’s proposal for a ‘one-stop-shop’ academy to meet the skills needs among the region’s logistics employers.

8th July 2008

University lecturer set to star in reality crime show

• Birmingham City University professor takes part in Channel 5 reality show
  
  
• Show set to tackle juvenile crime
  
  
• Professor will join panel of experts including David Blunkett

Former Prison Governor and Birmingham City University professor David Wilson is set to tackle juvenile crime in a new television series for Channel Five.

5093/SA 4th July 2008

Universities engage with employers to deliver web-enabled workplace degrees in support of government targets

In line with government targets for degrees developed with employers, Birmingham City University and Staffordshire University are partnering with businesses to offer innovative, web-enabled undergraduate and post graduate degrees directly in the work place.

Based on individual learning ‘on the job’, employers across the country can offer a complete career development package, enabling staff to get a degree building on their day-to-day business and longer-term ambitions.

4th July 2008

Mike’s design skills drive his Black Country career

Walsall’s Mike Beese is home grown talent, nurtured through a Midlands university-education, and now making a valuable contribution to the local economy.

Joining Kingswinford-based Westfield Sportscars, whilst still a student at Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC), Mike Beese became part of a three-man team working on an exciting project to design a chassis for a new race-car. He was employed to apply skills, gained on TIC’s computer-aided design, BSc course, to a vehicle chassis which is the basis of the UK’s first ever electric race-car series. The resulting design, complete with 75 kw power motor, made its debut at 2008’s Autosport International Show at Birmingham’s NEC.

4th July 2008

Hooting about mooting: University law students in finals of national competition

• Local University to take on top student law rivals in London
  
  
• Birmingham City University most successful university for mooting

Two law students at Birmingham City University are today preparing to take on rivals from three other universities in a legal battle of words known as ‘mooting.’ 

5091/KB 30th June 2008

Prestigious national teaching award for Birmingham City University academic

• University academic wins National Teaching Fellowship
  
  
• Only 50 awards given across England and Northern Ireland
  
  
• Academic helped pioneer an innovative approach to Virtual Patient Scenarios and Team Teaching

An academic at Birmingham City University has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy to recognise his teaching skills and to celebrate his outstanding impact on students’ learning experience.

5090/KB 26 th June 2008

Irish mental health in Birmingham: implications for health service provision and practice event

The event will present two reports that are the result of a project launched in January 2007 looking into Irish people’s views and experiences of mental health services in Birmingham.

26th June 2008

Serial killers in the spotlight at Birmingham City University Open Day

• UK’s leading expert on serial killers to give a taster session
  
  
• Interactive activities, exhibitions and presentations each day
  
  
• Guided tours of campus sites - including £30 million Faculty of Health facilities

One of the UK’s leading criminologists will be heading a discussion about British serial killers when Birmingham City University throws open its doors to visitors this week for its Open Days.  The Open Days will take place on the main City North Campus in Perry Barr on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st from 10.00am until 4.00pm. 

5087/KB 19th June 2008

Travel costs covered for open day visitors

Potential university students from Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham and Leicester are being encouraged to attend Open Days at Birmingham City University later this week. Those who take up the offer of coming to find out more about the University will be able to reclaim the cost of their travel for the day.

5086/KB 17 th June 2008

Birmingham City University receives Ofsted success

The Training and Development Agency (TDA) has graded Birmingham City University’s Faculty of Education a Category ‘A’ provider of secondary teacher training following its successful Ofsted inspection earlier this year.

5088/SA 17 th June 2008

Local student wins mentor of the year

Local student Victoria Booth has been named Birmingham City University’s Mentor of the Year thanks to her success with helping pupils fulfil their potential.

The 20 year old, who is a second year student on the University’s Music course, has been working with Year 9 pupils at Langley School in Olton to encourage them to raise their aspirations and think about higher education. 

5081 / KB 6th June 2008

University announces two more Executive Deans

• Latest senior appointments confirmed
  
  
• Prof Dan Howard to lead Performance, Arts and Media
  
  
• Prof Christopher Prince heads Business School

Birmingham City University has announced two more appointments to the position of Executive Dean.

5085 / JA 6th June 2008

Birmingham students treat virtual patients

• Birmingham City students among first in country to use virtual system programme for Radiotherapy training
  
  
• System has transformed Radiotherapy teaching
  
  
• Virtual system has cost in excess of £200k

Students at Birmingham City University are amongst the first in the country to use a virtual reality system to learn how to treat patients with cancer.

5083/SA 5th June 2008

Announcement of new Executive Dean

• Chris O’Neil to lead Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
  
• Appointment commences August 1
  
• Wide experience in Art and Design

Birmingham City University has announced the appointment of Chris O'Neil to the post of Executive Dean for Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD). 

5080/JA 4th June 2008

Birmingham City University welcomes new Chancellor

Birmingham City University is delighted to announce that the new Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Chauhdry Rashid, is to be installed as its seventeenth Chancellor at a special ceremony to be held on Monday, 9th June at the Banqueting Suite at the Council House in Birmingham City Centre.

SA/5067 3rd June 2008

Birmingham Conservatoire hosts Integra 2008 festival

This month sees Birmingham at the forefront of innovation and creativity in the arts with two major events – the New Generation Arts Festival 2008 and the Integra 2008 International Festival and Conference “Fusing Music and Technology”, from June 5.

5078/DV 2nd June 2008

University unveils City Centre campus plan

• £150m development proposals go on display to public
  
• Vice-Chancellor hails ambitious plans
  
• Dedicated website launched

Birmingham City University is displaying its plans for a City Centre Campus development in public for the first time.
The exhibition opened at Millennium Point this afternoon (Friday May 30) and continues on Saturday May 31 from 9.30am-12.30pm.

JA/5074 Monday May 27th 2008

Hats off to art and design prize winner

The best of Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) were celebrating last week following the announcement of the Ryland and Jackson art and design awards.

RP/5073 21st May 2008

University to showcase £150m eastside plans

• Proposals for City Centre Campus to go on display
• Major development of Birmingham’s Eastside
• Chance for public to have their say

Birmingham City University’s ambitious plans for a flagship £150m campus are to go on display to the public.

The University is offering people the chance to look at the outline planning proposals for the Canal Street site, Eastside, which will be submitted to Birmingham City Council in June.

JA/5074 Monday May 27th 2008

Architecture celebrates its centenary

It’s 100 years since the Birmingham School of Architecture was founded. Now the School, which is part of Birmingham City University, is planning a series of celebratory events including a showpiece Centenary Ball in August.

23rd May 2008

Making Sense of Historic Political Landscape

Digitisation experts at Birmingham City University have recently been helping an ambitious project to digitise national political boundaries. Historical maps covering the entire British Isles have been scanned in order to make them available on the web for the first time.

21 May 2008

Birmingham City University climbs the league table

The Guardian University Guide 2009 has placed Birmingham City University six places higher than last year – highlighting excellent performance in certain key areas. The tables are based on a combination of aspects such as National Student Survey findings, expenditure per student, student:staff ratios and entry tariffs.

19th May 2008

Birmingham Conservatoire leads the way in Messiaen centenary celebrations

Eminent scholars Claude Samuel and Hugh Macdonald and renowned organist Dame Gillian Weir are among those who will visit Birmingham in June to take part in the primary international scholarly event celebrating the centenary of the birth of the French composer Olivier Messiaen.

5068/JK 19 May 2008

Gok Wan predicts Birmingham City University students will 'rock the fashion industry' following filming for his new show

Style guru Gok Wan, star of Channel 4’s How To Look Good Naked, has praised the talent and creativity of students from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), part of Birmingham City University, following his visit to interview fashion students for his new show, Gok’s Clothes Roadshow.

BKL/5065 14 May 2008

Student winners scoop debating prize

Four Birmingham City University students are celebrating after becoming runners up in a national debating competition.

SA/5057 14 th May 2008

Birmingham City University joins leading Higher Education Carbon Management scheme

Birmingham City University is set to cut its carbon footprint and reduce its energy bills by joining the Carbon Trust’s Higher Education Carbon Management (HECM) programme.

SA/5066 14 th May 2008

£7m sports centre for students, staff and the local community is to be built next to the City North Campus

Birmingham City University has received planning consent for its proposed centre from the city council. The project will be sited on the former Ansells Sports Club site off Wellhead Lane, Perry Barr.

8th May 2008

Celebrating the best in contemporary design

Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) is gearing up to celebrate the best in contemporary design with this year’s degree show exhibitions.

SA/5063 8th May 2008

Local student wins career nurturing opportunity

A Birmingham City University student is celebrating after being crowned regional champion in a national student art competition.

SA/5064 8th May 2008

Graduate helps with radio station’s new look

A former Birmingham City University student has been helping a local radio station with a new look to help promote its Breakfast Show.

SA/5061 1 st May 2008

Success and study

Within the sanctum of his studio, MA Media Enterprise student and entrepreneur David-Louis Hendley discusses the launch of his new range of contemporary tableware design and managing the delicate balance between business and study, with Course Director Annette Naudin.

30 th April 2008

Siamo Qui - We are here

The students of the MA Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Product and their course director represented the School of Jewellery at SIAMO QUI, an international exhibition, symposium and educational forum in Florence. They exhibited LIFELINES a large-scale installation project that was especially made to represent the polyphonous attitude and design philosophy at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University.

29th April 2008

Channel 5 asks Birmingham City University students and lecturers for their verdict on ‘The Gadget Show’

Several students from Birmingham City University have completed filming for a feature on Channel 5’s The Gadget Show and will soon be appearing on televisions across the country. The programme, which will go out on 5 May, at 8pm, is an hour-long show presented by Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry and Jon Bentley, which road-tests the latest consumer technology in a series of entertaining challenges and features.

BKL/ 5054 April, 2008

Cover star Punam doing 'OK' in Dubai

Former Birmingham City University student Punam Verma can truly say that her life since graduating is ‘going OK’ as she is currently featured on the cover of the magazine’s Middle East edition.

SA/5057 23rd April 2008

Autolink 2008 sees Birmingham City University launch significant new technology projects

The annual Autolink conference and exhibition for the UK automotive supply chain, returns to Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre at Millennium Point, central Birmingham, on 10th April.

8th April 2008

Talking Cities: 2008 Public Lecture Series: Transforming Motor Cities into Liveable Cities: Examples from Scandinavia

Bjarne Winterberg
Danish architect and urban planner
Transforming Motor Cities into Liveable Cities:
Examples from Scandinavia
Wednesday 9 April at 7.30pm in Birmingham`s award-winning Town Hall

As Birmingham aspires to be a "liveable" city, one of its major challenges is to humanise the modernist legacy of urban highways and roads. Bjarne Winterburg of the internationally acclaimed Ramboll Nyvig, has been working on international urban projects where context sensitive design, and visual and spatial coherence to squares, streets, buildings and public spaces has recreated settings for civic life.

April 9th 2008

Birmingham School of Acting introduces groundbreaking new course

Birmingham School of Acting, part of Birmingham City University, has developed an innovative new course to help performers and other drama specialists to become professional voice coaches and teachers with the Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Voice Practice.

BKL/5050 April 9th 2008

World renowned contemporary jewellery event comes to Birmingham

Schmuck, one of the most prestigious international events on the global jewellery scene, will be staged at Birmingham School of Jewellery, part of Birmingham City University from 10 April to 3 May 2008. Having taken place at Munich in March this year, its presence in Birmingham signals a huge honour for the city of Birmingham and Birmingham School of Jewellery, highlighting Birmingham’s importance in the international design arena.

BKL/5051 April 8th 2008

Birmingham City University criminologist banged up with Blunkett

Birmingham City University criminologist David Wilson is going back to one of his former jobs - prison governor - in a groundbreaking reality television experiment.

He’ll appear alongside the former Home Secretary David Blunkett, who is hosting the new Channel Five programme.
Entitled ‘Banged Up With Blunkett’, the show is set to be broadcast this summer.

JA/5047 April 4th 2008

Birmingham City University wins £171K funding to lead NHS West Midlands simulation project

Birmingham City University’s Faculty of Health has been awarded £171,000 by NHS West Midlands to lead a project in collaboration with the Medical Schools at the University of Birmingham and the University of Warwick. This unique partnership will ensure that perspectives from all health care professions, including Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Radiography are able to be reflected in this project.

BKL/ 5042 April 4th 2008

Birmingham City University journalism lecturer Paul Bradshaw finalist in online journalism competition

Birmingham City University journalism lecturer Paul Bradshaw and former BBC journalist Nick Booth are finalists in the Knight News Challenge, an annual competition run by Knight Foundation in the US to fund innovation in online journalism with grants of up to $5 million (£2.5m).

April 1st 2008

New Generation Arts Festival 2008: The Definitive Platform for the Digital Generation

Already renowned as the vanguard of creative content, the New Generation Arts Festival (NGA) notoriously champions the independent cause of showcasing the brightest emerging graduate talent in the arts world today. Previously supported by a host of celebrities including model Erin O’Connor, social commentator Germaine Greer, comedian Frank Skinner, artist Anthony Gormley and author Philip Pullman, this year the New Generation Arts Festival, organised by Birmingham City University, celebrates youth, diversity and the rise of digital culture.

31st March 2008

Midlands businesses tap into new standards

With international competition continuing to bear down on UK manufacturing  industry, Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) is helping companies strengthen their position on every front.

31st March 2008

Birmingham City University graduate Amy Booth-Steel has her West End stardom dreams dashed – for now

Birmingham City University graduate Amy Booth-Steel has had her hopes of West End stardom dashed – for now.

Amy had made it to the final 12 in the BBC’s talent show I’d Do Anything, which is searching for a new Nancy for Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s production of Oliver.

28 March 2008

Birmingham City University to go green

The future is looking greener at Birmingham City University with the adoption of a new Environmental Policy.

“The University recognises that it has an important part to play in terms of its own environmental impact and in influencing the impact of future generations through our students,” said Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Tidmarsh.

25 March 2008

Learning in virtual environments goes LiVE at Birmingham City University

A Birmingham City University project is researching the use of a three-dimensional, virtual environment for learning and assessment. The Learning in Virtual Environments (LiVE) project will see students undertake film production exercises, using the internet-based virtual world, ‘Second Life’.

383LP0308 19th March 2008

Research by two Birmingham City University academics has uncovered the extent of so-called “contract cheating” by students.

Contract cheating - the process by which students get others to complete their coursework for them by putting it out to tender - makes use of legitimate websites normally used by business, offering freelance project work or tutorial sites specifically set up for the purpose. The typical cost of an assignment undertaken in this way is between £5 and £50.

BKL/ 5034 Wednesday 19th March, 2008

Birmingham City Graduates put Midland's Designers on the Map

Birmingham City Graduates Maria Sururr and Zeleka Sutherland successfully orchestrated the Fashion Fusion Awards 2008, held on Friday March 7th at Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham.

JS/ 5034 17 March 2008

Birmingham City University helps X-Factor’s Rhydian raise money for charity

This weekend saw Rhydian Roberts’ fans, from Birmingham Conservatoire Junior School, officially launch t-shirts bearing his name, to help raise money for charity. Rhydian originally went on the X-Factor to raise the profile of Crossroads, a charity for which his mother works, which has inspired this initiative.

JS/ 5034 17 March 2008

Students’ hard work adds up to accountancy and finance success

Students’ hard work adds up to accountancy and finance success: Nine students awarded prizes for outstanding performance in accountancy and finance

JS/ 5034 17 March 2008

We have the technology - industry awards prove Birmingham City University has world-class staff and students, by design

Staff and students at Birmingham City University are celebrating after winning awards from the prestigious Design and Technology Association (DATA).

JS/ 5014 07 March 2008

Birmingham City University graduates challenge the London-centric fashion scene

Birmingham City University graduates Maria Surrur (22) and Zeleka Sutherland (25) have managed to get the biggest names in fashion, including the Mailbox, M.A.C and Harvey Nichols, behind them in a bid to put the Midlands firmly on the fashion map.

BKL/ 5035 6th March 2008

Open Source computer course launched by Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre

The increasingly all-pervasive nature of computing is stimulating greater interest in Open Source software from both individuals and businesses. This development in software harnesses the power of a network of experts independent of proprietary software organisations and corporations.

6th March 2008

Birmingham City University's NTI wins IT award

The NTI in Birmingham, part of Birmingham City University, has won a prestigious award from the Institute of IT Training (IITT). The NTI in Birmingham was awarded Learning Facilities of the Year 2008, in recognition of both the excellent facilities and the top class customer service. The award was presented by Sky News reader Lucy Alexander during the official awards ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel, London on Friday 15 th February 2008 in front of a capacity audience of over 450 training industry professionals.

6th March 2008

Second novel for Birmingham City University staff member

Students at Birmingham City University are hoping to follow in the footsteps of their award winning course leader, Nicola Monahan, when she publishes her second novel, Starfishing, this week.

JS/ 5031 05 March 2008

MA Media Enterprise means business

Lucinda Noonan is in the dream business. Her company helps to turn clients’ hopes into reality but that would not have happened without her own dreams being given a wake-up call by a ground-breaking course at Birmingham City University.

LD/5033 Tuesday 4 th March 2008

Birmingham City University forges new links in India

Birmingham City University is to create a stronger international presence with a new office in Chennai, India. Plans for the office will be unveiled at a launch event at the Taj Coromandel, Chennai, India on Wednesday 12th March.

BKL/ 5028 3rd March 2008

National Student Forum hears voice of Birmingham

Serena Trowbridge, a PhD student at Birmingham City University, has been appointed to the newly formed National Student Forum, after being nominated by the National Postgraduate Committee.

JS/ 5030 03 March 2008

Shadow health minister agrees confidence and cleanliness key to health education

Stephen O’Brien, shadow health minister, learned yesterday how confidence and cleanliness form the cornerstone of educating future healthcare professionals, when he visited Birmingham City University’s Faculty of Health, in Edgbaston.

JS/5029 29th February 2008

Digital Utopia: the New Generation Arts Festival 2008

The Definitive Platform for the Digital Generation

Already renowned as the vanguard of creative content, the New Generation Arts Festival (NGA) notoriously champions the independent cause of showcasing the brightest emerging graduate talent in the arts world today. Previously supported by a host of celebrities including model Erin O’Connor, social commentator Germaine Greer, comedian Frank Skinner, artist Anthony Gormley and author Philip Pullman, this year the New Generation Arts Festival, organised by Birmingham City University, celebrates youth, diversity and the rise of digital culture.

29th February 2008

Qatar beckons for prize winning planning students

Six students from Birmingham City University will pack their bags this Easter and head to Qatar, in an effort to join the team constructing one of the country’s most ambitious projects – The Pearl-Qatar.

27th February 2008

Birmingham City graduates establish Fashion Fusion Awards in support of M.A.C. Cosmetics Aids Fund

Birmingham City graduates Maria Sururr and Zeleka Sutherland are the two co-ordinators of this year’s Fashion Fusion Awards 2008, which will be held on Friday March 7 th at Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham.

21st February 2008

Students’ Union strikes award winning balance

Staff at Birmingham City Students’ Union, based at Birmingham City University, are celebrating after scooping first prize in the Birmingham and Solihull Best Business Awards for the Development of Work Life Balance 2007.

20th February 2008

Lord Bragg of Wigton awarded Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University

Lord Bragg of Wigton, known to millions as writer and arts broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, was presented with an Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University, on February 15.

A familiar face on British television as editor and presenter of The South Bank Show, and an award winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, Lord Bragg is also the Honorary President of the National Academy of Writing, which has its home at Birmingham City University.

15th February 2008

Birmingham City University students gain highest number of goldsmiths bursaries

Against national competition, no less than eight Level 3 students on the BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing course have been awarded Precious Metal Bursaries from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, each worth £200.

RP/ 5024 Thursday 14th February 2008

Radio student wins Gold in Dubai

Claire Burgess, a student at Birmingham City University, is ruling the radio waves in Dubai after taking top prize at the country’s Ibda’a Media Student Awards.

14th February 2008

From the Midlands with love

A postcard booklet, entitled ‘From the Midlands with Love’ has been mailed to big businesses across the UK, as a way of showcasing the brightest graphic art and illustration talent currently offered by designers in Birmingham.

JS/ 5022 13 February 2008

Birmingham City University honours W Wing Yip

Birmingham City University will this week recognise the achievements of Birmingham businessman W Wing Yip, when it presents him with an Honorary Doctorate.

12th February 2008

Survey shows top management may be frustrating UK Industry's innovative strengths

Despite recent official figures showing a 9% increase in R&D, a survey led by a prominent engineering professor from Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) casts doubt on the effectiveness of UK Industry’s corporate approach to innovation.

12th February 2008

TV child protection and crime expert gains degree

Child protection expert Mark Williams-Thomas has been awarded a Masters Degree in Criminology, by Birmingham City University, proving that academic qualifications can still improve your skills, even if you have years of real-life experience.

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Michael Beasley awarded Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University

Michael Beasley CBE, Chairman of the Motor Industries Research Association and former Managing Director of Jaguar Cars, will be presented with an Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University, 2.30pm on February 11.

11th February 2008

Talking cities at iconic Birmingham building

The Urban Design Public Lecture Series 2008 takes place at the Town Hall Birmingham on 18 February, and will be introduced by Hannah Vowles, head of Birmingham City University’s School of Architecture and led by Sunand Prasad, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Friday 8th February 2008

David Frost awarded Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University

David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, will be presented with an Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University, on February 11.

7th February 2008

Birmingham City University honours former Bishop of Birmingham, the Archbishop of York

Birmingham City University will this week recognise the achievements of Dr John Sentamu, when it presents the former Bishop of Birmingham with an Honorary Doctorate.

1st February 2008

University awards world renowned children’s television producer with Doctorate

Birmingham City University will confer the honorary award of Doctor of the University upon Anne Wood, in recognition of her outstanding achievements in children’s television.

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Birmingham City University honours Lord Corbett of Castle Vale

Birmingham City University will recognise the achievements of Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, when it presents him with an Honorary Doctorate, on Monday February 4, 2008.

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Jazz icon and X-factor sensation share stage at Birmingham City University

Wednesday 30 January saw two prominent Birmingham-based musicians coming together at Symphony Hall: local jazz icon Andy Hamilton and X-Factor sensation Rhydian Roberts - Rhydian to receive his honours degree from Birmingham City University’s Conservatoire and Andy to be made an Honorary Fellow of the institution.

Thursday 31st January

Notion Studio has the Midas Touch

Birmingham’s Notion Studio lend their video production skills to the sweat-fuelled whirlwind of rock.

5014/RA Monday 28 January 2008

Conference moves enterprise education debate from discussion to practice

The best ways to teach enterprise as part of art, design and media courses in higher education will be explored at a conference to be held at Birmingham School of Jewellery, on 12 March 2008.

24 January 2008

Award announced for student of the year

Birmingham City University’s brightest human resource management talents have an added incentive to study hard this year, after the University announced the best results from its Human Resources Management degree will be recognised with a special prize.

24 January 2008

Birmingham City University awards honorary degree to internationally renowned creativity expert

Birmingham City University is delighted to announce that it will confer the honorary award of Doctor of the University upon Sir Ken Robinson, in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of creativity and innovation in business and education. The prestigious award will be conferred on 24 January 2008 at the University’s Awards Congregation ceremony in Symphony Hall, which will celebrate the work and achievements of students graduating from Birmingham City University’s Education Faculty.

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Media students' internet radio station now live

Students from the BA (Hons) Media & Communications course at Birmingham City University have set up their own internet radio station, Silver Stream Radio www.silverstreamradio.co.uk, as part of their final-year assessments.

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University responds to calls for more cookery teachers

The Faculty of Education at Birmingham City University has called on graduates with food related degrees to “get cooking”. With the introduction of compulsory cooking lessons in England’s secondary schools the demand for food teachers is at an all time high.

Tuesday 22nd January 2008

Designs for a city : Birmingham City University at the Interiors Show

The crème de la crème of Birmingham’s design community is encapsulated in the launch of Design City at the Interiors Show, NEC and the Pavilion, Victoria Square, Birmingham. Organised by CMPi and Birmingham City University, Design City celebrates the city’s vibrant design culture as well as highlighting the range of design expertise in the region as a whole.

20th January 2008

Talking Cities

Birmingham City University’s School of Architecture is pleased to announce the launch of its 2008 Urban Design Public Lecture series in Birmingham’s newly renovated Town Hall on Monday 18th February 2008 at 7.00pm.

18th January 2008

New City Campus for Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University has signed a deal with Birmingham City Council to acquire a 4.1 acre site in Birmingham’s Eastside to build a 37,000 sq m new campus. The deal has been supported by Advantage West Midlands, who designated this area the ‘Learning & Leisure Quarter’ and which is now home to a growing number of learning organisations

5000/BL Thursday 17th January 2008

Competition to design a car for the world’s first one make electric vehicle race series

Design students from universities, further education colleges and senior streams of secondary schools will be invited to enter a competition to design the body for the world’s first one-make electric vehicle race series. The competition will be launched on press day at Autosport International on the Niche Vehicle Network Stand No. 6230 at the NEC on January 10th.

January 2nd 2008

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