News and Updates

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From BCU to a business in sustainable design

18/03/25

Molly Ratcliffe, a BCU alumna, won the Female Founders Pitching Competition last year for her business WasteProjekt and...

Birmingham Based Business Supporting Graduate Talent

13/03/25

Brew, a Birmingham-based company, have regularly recruited graduates from BCU. In this blog we spoke with the company t...

From Idea to Impact: Sharedish’s Journey since winning University competition

04/03/25

Since winning the University’s STEAM Hatchery competition in 2024, Sharedish has continued its success over the last si...

Leaders by Nature

10/02/25

Jude Jennison charts her amazing journey from IBM to leadership with horses

Arup office in Birmingham - ideas for sustainable design

30/01/25

To help promote ideas about workplace and sustainable office design, Business Services visited the new Arup office in B...

From an international student to a PR professional: Mastering the three types of luck

17/01/25

A blog looking at Feron Jayawardene's journey from being an English and Journalism international student to PR professi...

Seeing the wood from the trees - why we cannot have it both ways

14/01/25

As we dispose of our Christmas trees and embark on a new year, we should reflect on the environmental impact of our dep...

2025 - a year of innovation, entrepreneurship and change-making

10/01/25

This year 2025 will once again see innovation at the centre of business trends culminating in the Innovation Fest f...

Reforming the planning system is essential for SME housebuilders

17/12/24

In light of the government's announcement to build 1.5m new homes, we asked Michael Parinchy, a manager at Probuild360,...

From Student to Surveyor

07/11/24

Business Services asked Alya Akhtar, BCU alumna and now a Surveyor at Avison Young, to chart her postgraduate journey i...

Housing Summit paves the way for new homes

15/10/24

Over 100 people from across the building sector attended the Housing Summit at Arup's new office in Birmingham.

Celebrating over 20 years of partnership with West Midlands Police

04/10/24

The latest in the series of Fusion events following on from ones with the business, professional and financial service...

Transforming the landscape for business

27/09/24

When it comes to businesses in the West Midlands, many would not think of themselves as an integral part of the landsca...

Keeping your business afloat

17/09/24

With more businesses having gone insolvent during the last year than at the height of the financial crisis, Dr Deniz Y...

As a business is it worth attending the party conferences?

11/09/24

The party conferences are the highlight of the political calendar but for businesses attending them they can be expensi...