News and Events
13/05/2013: Foundation Degree and Masters open eveningNewman University is holding a foundation degree and masters open evening on Wednesday 22nd May 4-8pm for those interested in developing their career further or to gain new skills. Newman offers a wide range of part-time courses aimed at developing you as a professional in a variety of areas.
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10/05/2013: First Early Years Professional Status students
The first cohort of students achieving Early Years Professional Status (to be recognised as Early Years Teacher Status from September 2013) have been celebrating their successful completion of the Graduate Practitioner Pathway from Newman University.
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26/04/2013: Learning matters!
Are you thinking about learning more about education? Training to be a teacher or needing to learn more as a teacher? Or want to study a particular subject such as Theology or History or Psychology and English as a full-time student or on a part-time basis? There is a wide range of subjects and opportunities to study available at the new Roman Catholic University in Birmingham: Newman University. Newman University is a diverse and multi–cultural community. It is a student-centred university rooted in the local community but also serving regional, national and international communities of learning by providing a formative education informed by the Catholic ethos and a shared values-based learning experience.
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29/04/2013: Children's Commissioner to give public lecture
The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dr Maggie Atkinson, will identify discrimination, exclusion and exploitation as three very real risks facing children and young people during a public lecture at Newman University tomorrow.
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16/04/2013: Newman at the mac
Newman University is proud to present the second year drama students’ production of David Calcutt’s 'The White Shining Land' which will take place at the mac (Midlands Arts Centre) in Birmingham from 25th to 26th April.
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04/04/2013: How to revise - tips and techniques to make revision easier
There are a number of different techniques that can help you revise, and each individual is different. To find what works for you, try out some of the handy techniques below as suggested by the Newman Education Liaison team and it may make all the difference between getting your expected grades and exceeding them…
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15/05/2013: Public Lecture: Discrimination, Exclusion and Exploitation
The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dr Maggie Atkinson, will be giving a public lecture at Newman on Thursday 25th April.
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04/03/2013: Train to Teach
Visit Newman University at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, Millennium Point for the Train to Teach exhibition on Saturday 23rd March, 9.30am-5pm. This event will provide you with a wealth of information on pursuing a career in teaching and the study options available at Newman University.
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15/02/2013: Exhibition on Birmingham's Polish community comes to Newman
How many people in Birmingham know that former Battle of Britain pilots and other Second World War combatants still gather each week close to the city centre, at the Polish club in Digbeth, to exchange memories and reminiscences of those dramatic events of over 65 years ago? They are part of the precious few survivors of the 140,000 Poles who settled here in Britain after the Second World War when their country was invaded and occupied from the west by Hitler’s Nazis and from the east by Stalin’s Soviet Red Army. One in six Poles – over 6,000,000 - died in the course of the war.
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15/02/2013: Higher Education Academy and Newman University seminar series
Home and Away: Developing culturally capable staff and students Date: Friday 15th February
Time: 10.00am-4pm
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06/02/2013: Newman confirms university status
Newman University is celebrating after being awarded full university status by the Privy Council.
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01/02/2013: Olympic gymnast opens university building
Wolverhampton’s London 2012 Olympic medallist Kristian Thomas will officially open the new St Chad building and library – part of a £20million campus redevelopment – at Newman University today.
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29/01/2013: Developing culturally capable staff and students
Home and Away: Developing culturally capable staff and students
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25/01/2013: Lecturers promoted to readership posts
Four academics at one of Birmingham’s newest universities have started 2013 in new readership posts.
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19/02/2013: Newman to host 25th Cathedrals Group Choir Festival
Newman is delighted to be hosting the 25th Cathedrals Group of Universities and University Colleges Choir Festival at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
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17/01/2013: Most Deserving Student in Britain
Newman University is pleased to announce that teacher training student, Shanice Jeavons, has been shortlisted in the Motors' 'Most Deserving Student in Britain' competition.
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07/01/2013: Tackling violence through street-based youth work
For the last 2 years, the research team at Newman University has been working with a number of international partners on an EU funded research project. The aim of the Touch Project was to ‘Examine and thereby improve how street-based youth work can help prevent and combat street violence between young people across Europe’.
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25/02/2013: Up to £20,000 bursaries available for PGCE courses
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