Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University is one of the largest UK universities with around 25,000 students from 80 different countries. The University is a professional university which provides vocational programmes taught using applied teaching methods.
The University welcomes international students who wish to enhance their career prospects and provide a full range of support and guidance services to enable students to optimise their potential.
The University's international appeal has been acknowledged and won the 2011 prestigious Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Award. Our national and international popularity has grown significantly in recent years.
From 2008 to 2010, we had the highest rise in UCAS applications of any university in the UK's Midlands region. The University is situated in the City of Birmingham, which is the UK's second largest city; a more affordable city than London yet located only 1 hour and 40 minutes from the capital.
We are proud of our strong links and close collaboration with the region, which dates back to 1843. The University invests more than 270 million pound into the regional economy and supports thousands of jobs in the city and surrounding area. Our six academic faculties offer over 350 courses, from foundation level, through undergraduate degree programmes, to taught Master's courses and research doctorates.
Location & Facilities
Birmingham City University comprises campuses located throughout the city. Here is a sample of our leading faculties :
City North
This is a big, bustling campus, three miles north of the city centre. It's simple to get to - there's on-site parking, and you're minutes from a train station and major bus routes. It's where many of our courses are based, including those taught by Birmingham City Business School and the Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences, as well as English and some Media courses.
Facilities
Teaching students get the feel of a real school in our replica classrooms, complete with school gym and changing rooms. During mooting competitions, Law students hone their advocacy skills in one of our mock courtrooms in front of a judge, usually a qualified solicitor or barrister.
It's also where you'll find lots of facilities - you can study at the vast Kenrick Library, pick up careers advice from our Student Services team, work out at the new 8.5 million pound Doug Ellis Sports Centre, head to the Students' Union or just grab a bite to eat from one of our cafes.
Latest Developments
The campus has benefited from a 2.5 million pound investment in a range of projects to improve its social amenities and social learning spaces. The most significant is the creation of the new Kenrick cafe, fully integrated within the Library and the 24-hour Open Access IT Suite.
Together with the refurbishment of the Baker and Edge cafe, City North now has a superb and varied food and refreshment offering in excellent surroundings.
The Students' Union has also remodelled its Bar 42 at a cost of 250,000 pound, while a major investment in the Business School provided a new reception in Galton Building and the upgrade of teaching and social spaces on the upper floors. To complete the picture, the Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences received a revamp of the entrances and corridors to the Dawson and Attwood buildings with new lighting, flooring and redecoration.
Gosta Green
Gosta Green, just five minutes' walk from the city centre, is home to three of our Birmingham Institute of Art and Design's five schools :

• Birmingham School of Architecture
• School of Fashion, Textiles and Three-Dimensional Design
• School of Visual Communication
• Facilities

Gosta Green has extensive studio and workshop provision, reflecting the broad range of study opportunities on offer. Fashion offers fully professional facilities for garment design and construction while the textiles area has a mixture of digital and traditional facilities including embroidery, print, weave and knit workshops. All workshops are supported by our team of skilled technicians. Fashion workshops and textiles areas are equipped for both traditional techniques and state-of-the-art computerised looms and printers. Students benefit from excellent design studio and workshop facilities to prepare them for practice at the highest level. Students have access to Vicon 3D, an external tracking motion capture facility, and Gypsy, an exo-skeleton-based motion capture system, extend the possibilities for production of 3D animation and films. There's also a comprehensive range of tools and machinery in the wood and metal workshops.
City Centre Campus at Millennium Point
Our City Centre Campu

Radiography
We have a well-established reputation for training excellent Radiography professionals.
Public and Community Health
We offer qualifications that lead to professional registration and help practitioners develop.
Operating Department Practitioners and Paramedics
Our graduates play key roles within the health care service, providing essential support within a team environment.
Speech and Language Therapy and Rehabilitation Studies
A career in speech and language therapy and rehabilitation may be for you if you enjoy working with people of all ages and abilities.
Sport and Exercise
You will really value the vibrant and practice-led learning environment we create and the opportunities that we offer our students.
Life sciences
The courses are designed to give you extensive practical and laboratory experience in support of your learning, in a new purpose-built environment.

The University has first types of partial scholarships :

• 500 to 1,500 pound partial discounted scholarships. These are awarded on merit and allocated on a first come first service basis.
• 1,000 pound loyalty scholarships for those who have previously studied at BCU, and
• 300 pound discount for those unconditional offer holders who pay their fees in full.

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Graduate Certificate
Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Product
This is an intensive six-month programme that is aimed to familiarise students with the key processes, techniques and terminology specific to the practice of contemporary jewellery and related product. It is an enhancement of your Art and Design degree to enable you to pursue higher study and research in this field.
Course aims and objectives
The aims of the course are to:

• Gain experience of, and be able to apply and critically evaluate technical skill and processes specific to, jewellery and related product practice.
• Gain a breadth of knowledge and understanding of critical debate and professional issues particular to the area of contemporary jewellery and related products.
• To develop intellectual thinking and academic skill with an integrated approach to theory and practice in relation to jewellery and related project practice.
• To develop independent reflective working practice and flexible learning in relation to sustaining self-initiated project work of a professional standard in relation to jewellery studio practice.

project work of a professional standard in relation to jewellery studio practice.
The overall aim of the programme is to allow Art and Design graduates to gain skill, technical experience and to develop a material studio research practice in the specifics of jewellery and related product techniques and processes. The programme will develop an exploratory experimental practice related to the area that is critically reflective.
Students will be given demonstrations and experience techniques and processes particular to a jewellery studio. They will be expected to critically evaluate and apply these to project work that will encourage contextual analysis and the development of reflective practice.
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