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In focus: Our nominees for the RICS Matrics Young Surveyor of the Year Awards 2020 – Dan Nixon

Three UCEM apprentices and three alumni have been nominated in various categories at this year’s RICS Matrics Young Surveyor of the Year Awards.   In the lead-up to the Awards,…

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UCEM Property Awards 2020 – Our Academic Excellence nominees: Adam King

We will be hosting the 33rd UCEM Property Awards on Thursday, 15 October. Due to COVID-19, we will not be able to hold this in person but we will be…

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UCEM Property Awards 2020 – Our Academic Excellence nominees: Rob Sumner

We will be hosting the 33rd UCEM Property Awards on Thursday, 15 October. Due to COVID-19, we will not be able to hold this in person but we will be…

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UCEM Property Awards 2020 – Our Alumni of the Year nominees: Vincent Chan

We will be hosting the 33rd UCEM Property Awards on Thursday, 15 October. Due to COVID-19, we will not be able to hold this in person but we will be…

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Making it onto EMpower’s 100 Ethnic Minority Future Leaders list: Guest blog by our Chartered Surveyor apprentice, Sadaqat Hussain

Sadaqat Hussain, an Apprentice Surveyor for Cushman & Wakefield who studies on our Chartered Surveyor apprenticeship (Commercial Real Estate pathway), has made it on to the list of EMpower’s 100…

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Principal Thoughts: A vocational online university bucking the trend and widening participation

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley writes about the challenges created by UCEM’s unique identity and offers an insight into the work which…

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Alumni stories: ‘Never too old to go back to school’ – Peter’s move into arbitration

We have educated more than 150,000 students in the Built Environment since being founded in 1919. We constantly monitor the market to deliver academic programmes which are needed by the…

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What I’ve learnt – Upskilling in a difficult jobs market: Guest blog by our MSc Real Estate Programme Leader, David Hourihan

Among many other impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a worldwide downturn in the economy creating a harsher landscape in the jobs market.   Whilst the nature of this downturn…

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From the arts to chartership: Q&A with our MSc Real Estate alumna, Hannah Done

Hannah Done is a Chartered Surveyor in the Office Agency Team at JLL in Edinburgh. Hannah graduated from our MSc Real Estate programme last year and we caught up with…

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Student stories: Charlotte’s move into the world of property

Charlotte Toms is a Graduate Surveyor for Knight Frank in London. Having started off in a residential sales role after completing her undergraduate studies, she decided to pursue a career…

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My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by our MSc Building Surveying Programme Leader, James Ritson

Early interest From a young age, I’d always been interested in creating things. I loved, and still love, puzzles and it was this inherent interest in creating things and piecing…

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My life in real estate: Guest blog by our real estate programme leader, David Hourihan

People often ask me what got me into real estate and, for me, it all began through having a basic interest in residential sales as an 18-year-old. I had no…