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National Apprenticeship Week visit round-up

Many of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) went to visit apprentices and their employers to mark National Apprenticeship Week last week.   We published a summary of the visits and…
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Q&A with our Chartered Surveyor apprentice, Bayezid Ahmed: Guest blog by our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officer, David Meilhan

As part of National Apprenticeship week, I went out to meet Bayezid Ahmed, one of our Chartered Surveyor apprentices on the Project Management pathway. I met Bayezid on site at…
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National Apprenticeship Week 2020: Dispatches from our apprentice visits

We have a large team of Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) at UCEM to provide one-to-one support for our apprentices. Their role ranges from pastoral support to ensuring employers and apprentices…
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Podcast: Digging Deeper – Episode 1: Apprenticeships

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…
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UCEM’s first apprentices: A year on

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…
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Lucy Roper’s Built Environment blog: A new look for Knowledge Foundations

Lucy Roper is UCEM’s Information Governance Manager. As part of her role, Lucy manages the e-Library on our virtual learning environment (VLE), ensuring our students have access to a wide…
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Student stories: Surveying apprentice Ottilie’s tale of work, studies, world-class kayaking and being shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year

Completing your studies as an apprentice while learning to master your job requires plenty of determination and dedication. On top of this, our Level 3 Surveying Technician (Residential Survey pathway)…
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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…
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Introducing… Our Academic Programme Support Tutors

Our ‘Introducing…’ blog series profiles different teams or services across UCEM.   The latest team to feature in the series are the Academic Programme Support Tutors based at our Reading…
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Student stories: Fidell’s journey to become a Chartered Surveyor

Our MSc programmes are all conversion programmes meaning they are suitable for students who have a degree in another discipline. One such student was Fidell Brown, who decided to leave…
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Principal Thoughts: Making our founder, Sir William Wells, proud

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley reflects on our centenary year activity and examines how the past 100 years have achieved the aims…
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Podcast: UCEM in conversation with… Emma Martinez – Episode 1

Episode 1 of the UCEM in conversation with... podcast sees UCEM PR and Social Media Manager, Andrew Belt, speak to our MSc Building Surveying alumna, Emma Martinez - the winner…