Keep updated on Built Environment industry insights and thoughts from UCEM Principal: Ashley Wheaton.
Episode 1 of our new Digging Deeper podcast focuses on apprenticeships. UCEM PR and Social Media Manager, Andrew Belt, is joined by UCEM Principal, Ashley Wheaton, UCEM Director of…
Not only does UCEM provide the educational training for apprenticeships, but the institution hires apprentices too. History was made in September 2018 when Georgia Haines and Nicole Hatton became the…
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…
Illustrious industry figures joined us at Haberdashers’ Hall in London for the 32nd UCEM Property Awards. Trophies were handed out to the 32nd UCEM Property Award winner, Sir James Wates,…
To coincide with Dyslexia Awareness Week, our Surveying Technician Diploma apprentice, Nicki Robinson, has written about being dyslexic and the challenges it brings when studying. Career to date I started…
Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley reflects on personnel changes in government and makes the case for apprenticeships to remain high on the…
Starting out I got into the Built Environment as an apprentice electrician. I became a Facilities Manager for Marks & Spencer having worked in various electrical based trades. Travel I…
UCEM’s Chartered Surveyor Degree apprentice, Sadaqat Hussain, has been nominated in the Construction category for the Asian Apprenticeship Awards in October. Sadaqat, an Apprentice Surveyor at Cushman & Wakefield, is…
Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley runs the rule over the Augar review of post-18 education and funding, finding much to like should…
Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley reviews the progress, or lack of, since writing open letters to five government ministers about the apprenticeships…
Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. This week, Lucy points us to concerning stories about Brexit-influenced…
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…