In focus: Our Sustainable and Innovative Construction module

In focus: Our Sustainable and Innovative Construction module

Some of our modules run across different programmes such is the shared knowledge required across different built environment professions. Our ‘Sustainable and Innovative Construction’ module is one such example, with…

Introducing… Our Apprenticeship Directors

Introducing… Our Apprenticeship Directors

Apprenticeships have become an increasingly integral staple of UCEM’s education provision since we first offered them in 2015. We continually survey the apprenticeship landscape to ensure we are offering the…

Introducing… Our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers

Introducing… Our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers

To coincide with National Apprenticeship Week, we decided to shine the spotlight on our apprenticeship outcomes officers – or AOOs.   We have 18 AOOs in total who provide one-to-one…

LGBT+ History Month: Inspiring people from the built environment

LGBT+ History Month: Inspiring people from the built environment

To mark LGBT+ History Month, different members of staff will be sharing stories of LGBT+ people from history who have influenced the built environment.   This blog will be updated…

Why studying online can be more accessible to those with disabilities and neurodiversity

Why studying online can be more accessible to those with disabilities and neurodiversity

Traditional, face-to-face teaching is not for everyone. Online learning can be a preferable studying experience for some, and an experience which has become more essential over the past year. Students…

Introducing… Our Business Development Team

Introducing… Our Business Development Team

UCEM started offering apprenticeships in 2015 just around the same time as the institution’s business development team was formed. Our business development team is central to our work on apprenticeships…

My career in the built environment: Guest blog by our BSc (Hons) Building Surveying programme leader, James Ritson

My career in the built environment: Guest blog by our BSc (Hons) Building Surveying programme leader, James Ritson

Early interest From a young age, I’d always been interested in creating things. I loved, and still love, puzzles and it was this inherent interest in creating things and piecing…

My life in real estate: Guest blog by our BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management programme leader, David Hourihan

My life in real estate: Guest blog by our BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management programme leader, David Hourihan

People often ask me what got me into real estate and, for me, it all began through having a basic interest in residential sales as an 18-year-old. I had no…

My career in property so far: Guest blog by our Student Trustee and Lead Student Representative, Phoebe Farrell

My career in property so far: Guest blog by our Student Trustee and Lead Student Representative, Phoebe Farrell

Phoebe Farrell completed UCEM’s BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management programme and became chartered last year. In her time studying with UCEM, she became only the second Student Trustee and our…

My life in the built environment: Guest blog by UCEM BSc (Hons) Building Control programme leader, Dean Bieganek

My life in the built environment: Guest blog by UCEM BSc (Hons) Building Control programme leader, Dean Bieganek

Studies and early career I’m a chartered architectural technologist (MCIAT), with 30 years of combined experience in the built environment. I have two related qualifications from Canada – a Poly-technical…

Podcast: UCEM in conversation with… Josh Olney

Podcast: UCEM in conversation with… Josh Olney

Episode 5 of our 'UCEM in conversation with...' podcast series sees UCEM PR and social media manager, Andrew Belt, speak to Josh Olney - AKA The Apprenticeship Guy.   Josh…

Principal Thoughts: Delivering for our students in a post-COVID world

Principal Thoughts: Delivering for our students in a post-COVID world

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley picks out his two highlights of the past 12 months.   Is there any other higher education…