A new partnership between our university and University College Birmingham aims to greatly benefit to our region and help to meet the national and regional skills demand. It will also transform the lives of students from disadvantaged backgrounds through new alternative pathways to higher education.

A reminder that you have until 12 noon on 8 July to get your application in for a call for Coventry Creates, a set of commissions that capture the imagination and showcase Coventry's artistic and research talent. With funding from Arts Council England and in collaboration with Coventry University.

Challenge yourself to live for a whole month, (or longer) without single-use plastic by joining the #PlasticFreeJuly campaign this year. Find out what Warwick is doing to reduce single-use plastic and read some top tips on how you can take part.

As we head into July and August, the Resonate Festival will be finally heading out and about across Coventry. We are putting on a series of special screenings (with some very exciting special guests) on the legacy of 2Tone, showcasing Coventry’s medieval and modernist ambitions in a new ‘Metropolis’ exhibition and exploring our feelings of freedom in a new mass-participation photography project. Keep your eyes on our events pages for all the latest events and projects.

Take advantage of an exclusive 2-4-1 ticket offer for the first two shows to open at the Assembly Festival Garden - one of the centrepieces for the city’s year of cultural celebrations. Valid from 1-7 July, find out more and book.

Discover the unique story of the rebuilding of the cathedral, following its destruction in 1940, in a BBC Four documentary. Featuring a wealth of rarely seen archive film and voices from yesteryear and today, it was produced in consultation with Professor Helen Wheatley, Director of the Centre for Television Histories at Warwick and informed by her research for Ghost Town: Civic Television and Haunting of Coventry.