With increased pressure on businesses to be flexible, resilient, increase efficiency and to meet sustainability goals there is an unprecedented need for new skills in the workforce. WMG has launched the Skills Centre, offering an ever changing and growing range of courses to meet current and future industry and business needs. The Centre is launching with seven new courses in innovative technologies ranging from energy systems, intelligent vehicles, digital and manufacturing.

The Midlands has one of the lowest levels of productivity in the UK, leading to a potential loss of up to £20 billion to the region each year, a new report shows.

The first stage of the Warwick Institute of Engagement’s (WIE) collaboration and co-production fund has been completed. Awards of up to £3,000 were available to support activities that focus on building new, or strengthening existing, relationships, with local, regional, and national community partners, groups or organisations. See the selected 4 awardees and find out more about their projects.

Tributes have been paid to the late Dr Iain Smith by his family and the friends who he made through his work in academia and his love of music

Congratulations to Andrew McIntosh, selected as this year's Community winner! Discover all #WarwickAutumn social media winners and hear feedback from local professional photographer and expert, Jamie Gray.

Hear from Shannon Stevenson, Community Communications Executive and Coventry local, in her latest blog.

Matthew Thompson, a Warwick Medical School student who volunteered at Nuneaton's George Eliot Hospital, used specialist equipment to take photographs of staff in their working environment in the summer of 2020. He did this to illustrate the range of people involved in the care of patients during the pandemic, and has now had the portraits put on display as a photography exhibition at the hospital.

We caught up with Matt Raw, the artist commissioned to turn a huge section the outer wall by the main entrance of the brand-new Faculty of building into a beautiful mural. Matt’s ceramic artwork, which is now complete after three years, is called Faith in the Miraculous. It reflects everything we hope the new building will help bring to life – collaboration, creativity and innovation. Learn more.