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Description: Build your own rocket, drop an egg safely on the ground by constructing your own landing device, and take part in some solar viewing at the University of Birmingham's open event on Saturday 10th March from 10am – 4pm.
Date:: Wednesday 7th March 2012
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research, Teaching

Description: The University of Birmingham's Business School and the Women's Business Development Agency have formed a partnership to create the UK's first academic centre devoted to women's enterprise and leadership.
Date:: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences, Teaching

Description: The University of Birmingham's Business School and the Women's Business Development Agency have formed a partnership to create the UK's first academic centre devoted to women's enterprise and leadership.
Date:: Thursday 16th February 2012
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences, Teaching

Description: The University of Birmingham has today launched its new Birmingham Foundation Academy for high performing international students to enter the British university environment one year before the start of their undergraduate degree programme.
Date:: Wednesday 15th February 2012
Categories:: Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

Description: The University of Birmingham is hoping to extend its excellent academic education to 11-18 year olds in Birmingham and is preparing to submit plans for a new free school to the Department for Education.If approved, the new University of Birmingham School and Sixth Form school will be a mixed ability, co-educational state school for pupils aged 11-16 plus sixth formers. It will be based near to the University's main campus in Edgbaston/Selly Oak and focus on academic rather than vocational subjects in order to prepare pupils for selective universities. The School aims to open in September 2014, taking 150 pupils into Year 7 and 200 into the Sixth Form.
Date:: Friday 3rd February 2012
Categories:: Social Sciences, Students, Teaching

Description: Clinical anatomist, author and broadcaster Alice Roberts has been appointed Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. Alice, who regularly appears as a science presenter on TV programmes including Coast, Time Team and Horizon, as well as The Incredible Human Journey, Don't Die Young and Origins of Us, joins the University on 1st February, 2012.
Date:: Monday 23rd January 2012
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

Description: As part of the University of Birmingham's celebration of the Olympics coming to the UK in 2012, over 1600 students aged between 11 and 12 years old will be at the starting blocks for this year's Christmas Science lectures.
Date:: Monday 12th December 2011
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Sport, Teaching

Description: Following the high profile demise of Southern Cross, reports suggest that more than 250 of its care homes are to transfer to other operators. With some 31,000 beds, Southern Cross was the largest care home provider in the country for older people – and its ongoing problems hit the financial, political and social affairs headlines at various stages this year. The University of Birmingham was directly involved in this process, producing national guidance on how to support older people if care homes close. However, looking back at events, what can we learn – and could this happen again?
Date:: Tuesday 11th October 2011
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences, Teaching

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