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UCEM’s centenary volunteering programme: Mucking in for Launchpad

UCEM staff are invited to take a charity day once a year. This contractual perk enables colleagues to arrange to volunteer for a charity or use a day’s work to…
Ashley Wheaton UCEM Principal

Principal Thoughts: The apprenticeships agenda a year on (long read)

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…
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Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: The big stories in the sector

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…
Desert Rose

#UCEM100 April centenary blog: Iconic structures – The National Museum of Qatar

Our fourth monthly centenary blog sees us return to the theme of iconic structures; namely, The National Museum of Qatar (known as Desert Rose) in Doha. The museum – inspired…
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Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Brextension, Lidl’s sustainability efforts, VR and 3D zebra crossings

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 stories looking at the…
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Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Inspiration and innovation

Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. Having looked at reasons to be cheerful last week, Lucy…
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National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our AOO, David Meilhan goes on-site with Malcolm Hollis apprentice, Dan Nixon in Watford

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…
Surveying Technician Apprentiship group working

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Attending an apprenticeship workshop. Guest blog by our Events and Communications Manager, Hannah Peck

On Tuesday (5 March) I spent the day in London at one of our Surveying Technician Apprenticeship workshops. In my job as Events and Communications Manager I don’t often get…
Tom Collins and Naomi Brown

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Sarah Olliver meets Faithful+Gould apprentices, Tom Collins and Naomi Brown in London

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…
Irene Barclay

#UCEM100 March centenary blog: Inspiring women in the Built Environment – Irene Barclay

We are now into the third month of our centenary year with plenty more events to look forward to and heritage stories to share with you. For the March centenary…
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National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Debi Gaskin-Palmer shadows our Lambert Smith Hampton apprentices, Alex Clifton and Jack Deakin in Lincoln

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…
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Student stories: Louise’s journey to achieve good mental health

After launching our monthly ‘Student stories’ blog last month with Ranikque Hayden-Best describing her route to becoming a Quantity Surveyor, this month we hand over the reins to our BSc…