Press Releases
Lockdown staff and students at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ to help with wildlife surveys
Members of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ community who are living on campus during lockdown have the opportunity to help survey wildlife for a biodiversity project.
Award for University's Accessibility Innovators
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s commitment to creating an inclusive and safe campus for students with disabilities has been recognised by its peers with the award of the Association of University Directors of Estates University Impact Initiative of the Year Award 2020.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ awarded ‘Business Events Venue of the Year’ at inaugural West Midlands Tourism Awards
¹û¶³´«Ã½ has been awarded the title of ‘Business Events Venue of the Year’ at inaugural West Midlands Tourism Awards
The conference, meeting and events team at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ were awarded the title of ‘Business Events Venue of the Year’ and will now go through to the national VisitEngland Awards for Excellence.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ announces new £10 million ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Scholars programme for up to 500 Midlands young people each year
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ will announce today (Tuesday 14th May 2019) a transformational new £10 million social mobility programme - ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Scholars - that aims to change the lives of hundreds of Midlands young people who have the potential to study at ¹û¶³´«Ã½, one of the world’s top 100 ranked universities, but who may face social or economic barriers to entering ¹û¶³´«Ã½. The new programme includes admissions offers up to 4 grades below ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s standard A level offer.
Ritula Shah, Brian Cox, iconic midlands footballer, one of world’s most successful authors, leading business woman, and Coventry social entrepreneur to be awarded honorary degrees by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has just announced that it will award honorary degrees to six people at its winter degree ceremonies which will run from Wednesday 16 January - Friday 18 January in the Butterworth Hall of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre.
£20 million for West Midlands to enable WMG at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ to create a UK Mobility Data Institute
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) will receive up to £20 million, subject to approval of a satisfactory business case, to enable WMG, at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ to create the UK Mobility Data Institute, a focussed research centre to collect, process and analyse transport data generated by the advent of new mobility technologies such as autonomous vehicles and smart charging of electrified vehicles.