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£10m funding to build a new Degree Apprenticeship Centre for the high value manufacturing sector
WMG, at the University of Warwick, has been awarded £10 million to build a new Degree Apprenticeship Centre for the high value manufacturing sector.
The WMG Degree Apprenticeship Centre will focus on courses essential to the effective development of advanced engineering and manufacturing companies.
The Centre, which is due to open in 2019, has received £10 million from the Government’s Local Growth Fund through the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP).
Leading Digital and innovation strategy expert appointed as University of Warwick’s first Director of Innovation
Digital and innovation strategy expert David Plumb has been appointed to the new role of Director of Innovation at the University of Warwick. He will take up the role in September.
£100 million new funding for WMG’s work in the High Value Manufacturing Centre – will help create the technologies of tomorrow
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP has announced today (Friday 10th August 2018) that WMG, at the University of Warwick, has been awarded £100m in Government funding for WMG’s work in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Urgent World Cup TV betting adverts now urgent problem for Advertising Standards Authority says new psychology research
Research by applied psychologists at the University of Warwick on urgent TV betting adverts during the recent football FIFA World Cup has led them to have significant concerns for punters, and a challenge for the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority. The researchers are calling on advertisers and the Advertising Standards Authority to work together with equal urgency on the issue of adverts with “significant time limitation“ particularly as the new Premier League football season is about to kick off.
Midlands based global doyens of darkness are LED into daylight
Midlands based Global darkroom specialists Paterson Photographic Ltd in Tipton have added daylight to darkness in their leading studio and theatre lighting thanks to LED technology support from WMG at the University of Warwick.
UK Government must provide road map for gas after Brexit, urges new report
March 2018’s ‘Beast from the East’ saw the UK's first gas deficit warning for 8 years. Extra supplies from mainland Europe and liquefied natural gas imports saw off the crisis. But will this be possible after Brexit? A new report from Warwick Business School’s Professor Michael Bradshaw explores the challenges and highlights the key issues that must be addressed in a post-Brexit UK Gas security strategy.