UCEM Property Awards 2021 – Our Academic Excellence Award nominees: Lai Fun (Queenie) Leung
We will be hosting the 34th UCEM Property Awards in London on Thursday, 14 October. After being hosted online last year due to restrictions imposed by COVID-19, we are delighted…
UCEM boosts its accessibility credentials with launch of course for staff
…Tharindu Liyanagunawardena, in coordination with other members of the institution’s online education department – sits on the virtual learning environment (VLE) and is available for any staff member to take…
UCEM on board with government’s new vision for HE: UCEM Principal, Ashley Wheaton, responds to Universities Minister, Michelle Donelan’s speech at THE Campus Live
…as a degree such as our Certificate of Higher Education Built Environment Studies, not to mention the many CPD short courses available on our Online Academy. Students come to us…
Education Department implements successful anonymous forum post trial
…anonymise responses to remove this barrier, Sharvari implemented anonymous assignment forums for the module’s autumn 2021 cohort. Comparing responses with the ‘People and Organisational Management’ module studied at the same…
A Case Study: Unlocking my Potential as a Chartered Surveyor through a Level 6 Apprenticeship – Max Boxall, Apprentice Surveyor
…joined the apprenticeship scheme I was fairly undecided with where I wanted to take my career. After completing my GCSEs I studied plumbing for two years and then went on…
Widening Participation to Build a Better Future
…share their personal experiences and examples of best practice when it comes to safeguarding our future workforce. In order to do this, the industry needs to attract a diverse mix…
UCEM Property Awards 2017: Academic Excellence Award Nominees
…Nagle’s dissertation for the MSc Quantity Surveying programme researched the practice of ‘designing out crime’, with particular reference to the ‘Secured by Design’ UK Police initiative. As part of her…
My life in Construction Management: Guest blog by Graham Hough, UCEM Programme Leader for the BSc (Hons) Construction Management programme
…Unfortunately, there was a recession and I decided to then go to a teacher training college. Coming from a family of teachers, my father suggested I move into education I…
National Apprenticeship Week Spotlight: Building on my career through a Quantity Surveying Apprenticeship
…MaitlandQS; the UK’s leading specialist mechanical and electrical quantity surveying practice. Patrice’s story: Before I started the apprenticeship scheme I was working as a document controller for a construction company,…
National Apprenticeship Week blog series: UCEM Principal, Ashley Wheaton, addresses Sam Gyimah (Minister for Higher Education)
…to achieve membership of one of the leading professional bodies for the Built Environment and secure well-paid employment with major construction and real estate companies. The case studies of current…
My life in Real Estate: Guest blog by John Mansfield, Programme Leader for the BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management programme
…Building at a local Further Education college. After completing the HNC, I was offered a place on the Urban Land Economics degree programme at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam…
UCEM Property Awards 2018: Alumni of the Year – Meet the nominees
…whilst completing an industry apprenticeship and then went on to pass her RICS APC and gain Registered Valuer status on her first attempt. Her work in commercial valuation and asset…