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Birmingham Battery Manufacturing Skills Pathway (B-MSP)

With more qualified staff needed to support demand, your solution could be to upskill or retrain your current workforce. We can support you with accredited courses required to prepare your workforce to meet the changing needs of the battery industry.

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Upskilling your workforce

With more qualified staff needed to support demand, your solution could be to upskill or retrain your current workforce and we can support you with courses needed to prepare your workforce to meet the changing needs of the industry.

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Bakery Lecturer

Eustaquio Barrera

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Program Lead, Sustainable Construction and Project Management

Dr Ali Abdi

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Director of Strategic Partnership Projects

Mark Godwin

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Fraud and Scam Awareness Workshop

Want to become more vigilant and safe in an increasingly digital world to protect your personal finances? Then join this workshop to learn how.

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Lecturer

George Babalev

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Lecturer/ Level 6 Year Manager for BSc Bakery & Patisserie Technology

Graham Duckworth

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Virtual tours

Take a look around our University, no matter where you are. Check out our virtual tours of our accommodation, campuses and world class facilities.

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Bluebell Wood

Bluebell Wood is an informal, affordable eatery based in the heart of the community at Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre, next door to Chelmsley Starters, our this purpose-built culinary school.

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Lecturer

Jigisha Dharman

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Senior Lecturer

Jo Lyons

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Domestic abuse

Domestic abuse can affect anyone. We’re here to help you feel safe, talk through your experience, and understand your rights and the support available to you.

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Deputy Head of Department

Simon Chatterton

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Innovate UK awards £1.2m to University-led partnership to grow battery manufacturing

University College Birmingham will lead a regional partnership delivering a new project growing new skills in battery manufacturing and innovation. The University, WMG at the University of Warwick, Cranfield University and RAVMAC LTD will jointly deliver the project and the…

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University leads the charge towards the UK's battery manufacturing ambitions

Battery Manufacturing Skills Pathway first graduates take their skills and knowledge back into the workplace.

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UCB and Schwarzkopf project makes dreams come true

An innovative talent-spotting project, pioneered by University College Birmingham in association with Schwarzkopf, is going from strength to strength.

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University launches UK's first accredited battery skills programme

In the face of Net Zero aims and the increasing demand for renewable energy, University College Birmingham has launched the Battery Manufacturing Skills Pathway (B-MSP), the first fully accredited programme in the UK.

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Burnt Chef Project aims to help students fight mental health stigma

Students took part in a special seminar with speakers from the Burnt Chef Project, focused on raising awareness of mental health issues in the hospitality industry.

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UCB Business School to drive strategy for £470 million engineering project

UCB's Business School is celebrating after being selected to strategically drive a global engineering group's £470million product innovation project.

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University backs council civic project to help city bounce back from Covid pandemic

University College Birmingham has teamed up with Birmingham City Council as part of a project to support local communities as the region recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

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University boosts links with The Real Junk Food Project as surplus stock donated to the community

University College Birmingham has joined forces with a community organisation to help combat food waste and provide support for local residents in need.

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Project Runway: Level 3 students pull off sensational end-of-year fashion show

Level 3 Hospitality with Events and Theatrical Special Effects, Hair and Media Make-up students put on a night to remember this month in an end-of-year creative showcase with a difference.

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UCB hears all with The Listening Project

UCB students, lecturers and support staff gathered in droves to take part in The Listening Project, a day-long student conference devoted to improving every element of life at the University.

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EUGangs Project representatives travel to Italy for transnational meeting

University College Birmingham lecturers travelled to Italy to represent the University at the EUGangs Project’s fourth transnational meeting.

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UCB students attend EU Gangs project in Italy

Degree student Dawn Dance studying Youth Community and Families at UCB and James Doyle, who along with Dawn also completed a Training the Trainer course in November 2014, have just returned from Italy having completed a 5 day mobility project…

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Children's project set to make real change in schools as Young Researchers Conference kicks off at UCB

Pupils from schools across the West Midlands and beyond will be researching how to change their own education for the better as part of an event held at University College Birmingham.

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It's a bug's life at Applied Food and Nutrition final project presentation day

Applied Food and Nutrition students have wowed assessors with cutting-edge solutions to current issues affecting the British public’s health and nutrition.

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Vaishnavi flies flag for bakery innovation as Dawn Foods junior product developer

A bakery and patisserie graduate who rose to the occasion as a student ambassador for one of the industry’s top global manufacturers and ingredients suppliers has been taken on by the company as a junior product developer.

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Mondelēz is choc-a-bloc with opportunities for bakery students

Professional Bakery students channelled their inner chocolatier during a visit from global snacking powerhouse Mondelēz International.

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Bakery's Easter Eggstravaganza

Level 3 Professional Bakery students have been showcasing their creative chocolatier skills for an Easter project.

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Naomi urges abuse victims to break the silence

A survivor of domestic violence has paid tribute to a Birmingham-based project for helping her come to terms with her personal trauma.

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Bread to doughnuts: Ross wins dream job developing on-trend bakery goods

A bakery and patisserie graduate who had believed his autism could stand in the way of a university education has won a dream job developing doughnuts for Bakels Group and discovering new technology for bread.

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Chelmsley Wood's Bluebell Wood eatery welcomes high-profile visitors

Bluebell Wood welcomes high-profile guests and the highest environmental health rating of 5.

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UCB's Young Researchers Conference bigger and better than ever

Sixteen primary and secondary school students from across Birmingham were visiting fellows to UCB this week, presenting precocious university projects to lecturers, teachers and academics.

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University College Birmingham awarded £900,000 capital funding investment

OfS funding will fuel projects designed to enhance our student experience.

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Bakery apprentices invited to innovative bakery facility

Three Level 3 Bakery apprentices were invited to bakery giant Bakels' new Baking Centre in Bicester for a demonstration of the latest technology in dough processing and their ultra-modern facilities.

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Bakery student wins trip to Mars thanks to winning vegan snack balls

One lucky University College Birmingham student had the chance to go to Mars – the food manufacturer, that is! – after winning a recipe competition with a creative selection of vegan snack balls.

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UCB students accept AVA product development challenge

Culinary Arts Management students have been challenged to create innovative new products for the Automatic Vending Association (AVA) to be in with a chance of winning £1,000.

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High school students are food product development pioneers

Year 11 students from Brooke Weston Academy have been experimenting with food product development in UCB’s new Food Science and Innovation Suite.

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Business and food students enter Dragons' Den with environmental campaigns

University College Birmingham students have been facing down local 'Dragons' after creating their own campaigns for an environmental project.

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CAM Students Culinary Product Development Challenge

Final year Culinary Arts Management students recently presented the outcome of their New Product Development Challenge module to representatives of the Automatic Vending Association (AVA).

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UCB helps to support small food businesses

UCB is working in partnership with the Walter Smith Employer Leadership Project (WS-ELP) to support small and medium food businesses by offering Transformational Short Courses.

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Bakery wins big at NEC Salon Display

Bakery students attended The Hospitality Show in the NEC to participate in the Salon Display competition, where bakery professionals showcase works of art made from marzipan, sugar craft, pastillage, chocolate and bread.

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Bakery student calls for companies to whip up opportunities

A Bakery and Patisserie Technology undergraduate at UCB has called for companies to whip up more opportunities for young bakers to help them kick-start their careers.

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Chelmsley Starters and Bluebell Wood officially opened by Saqib Bhatti MP

Saqib Bhatti MP joins other guests and VIPs at the official opening event for the Chelmsley Starters culinary school and its sister eatery, Bluebell Wood at Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre.

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International blogging sensation set for bakery degree at UCB

International blogging sensation Marko Josipovic is all set to make his mark on Birmingham. The Croatian teenager is about to start his BSc (Hons) Bakery and Patisserie Technology at UCB and plans to update the many followers of his site…

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College football team tastes victory in first Midlands tournament

A team of further education students from University College Birmingham have brought home the trophy in the Midlands' first College Collaboration Project (CCP) football tournament.

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Students hold Enterprise and Innovation Showcase

Students from the School of Hospitality, Tourism and Events hosted an Enterprise and Innovation Showcase as part of their final year Research Project.

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UCB students take part in AVA's 2014 'Culinary Product Development Challenge'

Final-year Culinary Arts Management students provided an insight into the future of vending machine food for a panel of industry experts.

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Seven golds and podium places for bakery students at national competition

Bakery students from Birmingham College of Food proved they had bags of flour power when they scooped a whopping 18 awards at a national competition.

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Bakery students create seven-layer Jubilee cake for Birmingham food bank

College students pulled out all the stops to create a seven-layer cake to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – and donated it to a city food bank.

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University College Birmingham hosts forum on radicalisation

University College Birmingham held an evening dedicated to exploring the issue of radicalisation within communities as part of the EUGANGS project.

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Global bakery products manufacturer snaps up UCB graduate for R&D role

A freshly-graduated UCB student has been appointed as a research and development technologist for one of the largest producers of yeast and bakery equipment in the world.

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Bakery students have behind-the-scenes visit to AB Mauri Centre of Excellence

Young bakers from University College Birmingham were granted a unique look behind the scenes at one of the world's leading producers of bakery ingredients – and also met two former UCB students working there.

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Lucy rises up career ladder as new student ambassador for global bakery supplier

A Bakery and Patisserie Technology BSc (Hons) undergraduate on the rise in her career is gearing up to explore Japanese and Korean influences as the 2024 Student Ambassador for a global bakery supplier.

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Former Mayor visits Bluebell Wood to see the vision made real

Sir Andy Street enjoyed a behind-the-scenes tour of the project.

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Young Researchers Conference 2017 gets off to a flying start

The annual Young Researchers Conference at UCB was launched with news that one of the UK's leading researchers would be involved in this year's project.

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Sports Therapy research viva

Sports Therapy students are presenting their vivas to lecturers as part of their final year Research Project.

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Students revitalise Great Malvern visitor strategy for next generation

Six students are working with Malvern Hills District Council to deliver a new tourism and hospitality project.

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The search is on for the UK's hottest talent

Have you got a brilliant idea for a food product or a catering business?

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Bakery students kick-start student ambassador role with spooky Halloween recipes

Two trainee bakery technologists from University College Birmingham have been busy creating Halloween recipes for everything from petrifying pumpkin profiteroles to bleeding brain muffins to kick-start their role as student ambassadors for a global bakery supplier.

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Student Sophie Ecclestone wins another coveted food product development placement at Marks & Spencer

Sophie Ecclestone, a second-year undergraduate studying Food Development and Innovation, is one of just two successful candidates to gain a position on Marks & Spencer's highly sought after year-long Food Product Development Business placement scheme.

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Speakers inspire students to earn a crust in bakery industry

Industry leaders from the likes of Callebaut Chocolate, Dupont Danisco and Lesaffre are set to visit University College Birmingham in a programme of unmissable masterclasses to inspire final-year Bakery and Patisserie technology students to think about future careers in the…

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C'est chic… Emilie is a model student

Makeup supremo Emilie Heyl produced a stunning magazine celebrating timeless French style for her final-year project at University College Birmingham.

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Bakery students rise to the challenge on new degree course

UCB's first intake of Bakery and Confectionery Technology students have started working in the University's bakeries on a new foundation degree.

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Business Enterprise students become entrepreneurs

Final year students on the BA Business Enterprise degree had to deliver business plan presentations to their lecturers and external assessors for their research project module.

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UCB wins record number of gold medals at national bakery competition

UCB is officially a force to be reckoned with after bringing home a record 29 medals – including 12 golds - from one of the industry's biggest bakery competitions.

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Carmen flies the flag for successful females everywhere on International Women's Day

There’s few better examples of successful international women than our very own, former tourism graduate Carmen Nibigira, who was recently called on to advise the UN on East African economics.

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Community cooking to care home kindness – celebrating our chef, bakery and hospitality student heroes

From cooking meals for the community to working tirelessly in care homes, students from across University College Birmingham's College of Food and Hospitality Management have been doing far more than valiantly adapting to online study during lockdown.

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Postgraduate students are consultants for the Lanzarote Tourist Board

Postgraduate Tourism students studying MA Tourism Destination Management and MA International Tourism Business Administration travelled to Lanzarote as part of their Live Project module.

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Bakery students provide 'elf service' at anniversary show

Dozens of Christmas elves made an appearance at a recent show at the NEC and it was all down to the efforts of a group of our Bakery Level 3 students.

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Full steam ahead for master’s students as proposals accepted for Vintage Trains

Postgraduate students from University College Birmingham are on track to make their mark in industry after successfully pitching new products to a heritage rail tour operator.

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Goosefoot scoop top prize for best vending snack

Final-year Culinary Arts Management students staged an exhibition of healthy vending snacks for the Automatic Vending Association's (AVA) Culinary Product Development Challenge.

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UCB entrepreneurs join BSEEN Showcase celebrating 1,000 new start-up businesses

Budding entrepreneurs from University College Birmingham gathered at a showcase event for a project which helps city students and graduates to set up their own businesses.

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Vending machine challenge brings new ideas to the table

Researching, developing and launching a brand new product for the vending industry was all in a day's work for UCB students when they went head-to-head in an annual competition.

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Rising star students taste sweet success in annual bakery awards

Students from the College of Food swept the board yet again at the Alliance of Bakery Students and Trainees Awards.

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UCB students join programme to develop ambassadors for Birmingham's Commonwealth Games

Students at UCB have taken part in a new pilot project aimed at inspiring young people in Birmingham to become ambassadors for the city ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

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UCB Business School delivers multi-million pound strategy for engineering firm

A group of students from the Business School at UCB delivered their pitch on the strategy for the CRUSER® project to the Executive team of Hayward Tyler Group after just 3-weeks of analysing the Global Engineering Group.

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Universities partnership to boost career opportunities leads to award nomination

A project between hired@UCB and careers services at two other Birmingham universities to boost higher level employment for local students and graduates in their home region has been shortlisted for a national award.

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Sebastian celebrates first anniversary of opening own bakery business

A former University College Birmingham student is set to mark his first full year of trading after setting up his own bakery business.

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Students consult top rugby team on marketing strategy

A group of MSc Enterprise Management students has conducted an end-of-year project with a twist – helping to promote Coventry’s rugby team, the Coventry Bears, to the rest of the West Midlands.

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MA Tourism students are pop-up business entrepreneurs

MA Tourism Destination Management and MA International Tourism Business Administration held an exhibition where they presented their pop-up tourism concepts for the island of Lanzarote as part of a live project.