The Curiosity Cube, a retrofitted shipping container transformed into a mobile science lab, stopped in Birmingham last week. Staffed by 19 faculty members and employees of the University of Birmingham, the Curiosity Cube visited Crocketts Community Primary School and Blackheath Primary School.

This second-time customer partnership event model between Merck and the University of Birmingham yielded an impact in over 366 students. During the Curiosity Cube visit, students had the opportunity to interact with the local STEM experts. 

Marking this year’s summer show, BBC Gardeners’ World Live has relaunched its local wheelbarrow design competition, inviting children from selected schools across the West Midlands, to create a unique and thought-provoking wheelbarrow display that will feature at the show taking place 15 – 18 June at Birmingham’s NEC. This year’s ‘mealbarrow’ theme focuses on highlighting climate change and the ongoing impact on food production around the globe.

Working with over 40 schools across the West Midlands, the brief has been to explore and grow edible plants and vegetables, spotlighting issues faced by climate change.

Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity produces six guiding principles for newsrooms to address in-built bias and diversity concerns around the use of Generative AI. The journalism industry must ensure strict guidelines are in place in newsrooms to combat the threat that Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, BARD, and DALL-E pose to diversity and editorial independence, three media experts from Birmingham City University have cautioned.

As Volunteers Week (1st-7th June) comes to an end, a group of local schools and one college have paid tribute to the hard work and dedication of their Governors and Trustees. 

The schools and college, which are all part of the Summit Learning Trust, all seek to improve life chances of children and young people by tackling disadvantage and breaking down barriers. This work, leaders say, would be impossible with the support of local volunteers who sit on the governing boards. 

The Curiosity Cube, a retrofitted shipping container transformed into a mobile science lab, stopped in Birmingham last week. Staffed by 19 faculty members and employees of the University of Birmingham, the Curiosity Cube visited Crocketts Community Primary School and Blackheath Primary School.

This second-time customer partnership event model between Merck and the University of Birmingham yielded an impact in over 366 students. During the Curiosity Cube visit, students had the opportunity to interact with the local STEM experts.

After caring for her mother at home, Wafaa Mokhlis takes a one-hour bus ride to an internship in Casablanca, Morocco. She hopes it will lead to a career in civil engineering. The 20-year-old sees herself someday in a hard hat, supervising crews on a construction site.

“Many young women like me, who were drawn to certain construction sectors such as painting and fitting-finishing, are more than ever determined to conquer other construction sectors, especially those considered too rough for women,” Wafaa said. She is among students at the Specialized Institute of Building in Casablanca, one of 15 vocational training centres participating in programs financed, in part, by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency dedicated to growing economies.