Chamber Patrons Life-changing scholarship offered
Students from diverse communities are being urged apply for a life-changing university scholarship offered up by the Millennium Point Charitable Trust. Each year, the Millennium Point Charitable Trust fully funds an undergraduate degree at Birmingham City University’s Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, which covers 29 different courses, from civil engineering to video game design and film production. Students in the West Midlands
are being asked to put themselves forward for consideration, with the application process open now until 31 January, 2020. Those from traditionally
marginalised groups in the field of science, technology, engineering and maths, such as LGBTQ or BAME people, as well as those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are encouraged to apply. Rebecca Delmore, commercial
director at Millennium Point, said: “We want to connect with emerging talent, particularly those in our more marginalised communities and offer up a life- changing opportunity to an outstanding and worthy recipient. “The scholarship would represent
the start to a successful career for our winner, but all finalists will receive bespoke support to develop employability skills and get access to further opportunities.
A student from BCU’s Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
‘Our wider aim is to support the economic growth of the West Midlands through addressing the skills gap across STEM industries’
“Our wider aim is to support the
economic growth of the West Midlands through addressing the skills gap across STEM industries.” The application process is broken
down into two stages, with those who proceed to stage two getting
Ex-trainee promoted to audit partner role
Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has promoted Louise Tweedie (pictured) to partner at its Birmingham office. Louise joined the company as a
trainee in 1999 and has more than 20 years’ internal audit and advisory experience. She specialises in education,
working with a range of higher and further education clients, academies and independent schools. She also leads RSM’s higher
education data quality team. The appointment is
among 10 RSM partner promotions in the UK this year, reflecting investment across the firm’s audit, tax and advisory practice. Mark Taylor, RSM's
managing partner for the central region, said:
“The promotion is testimony to Louise’s individual talent and highlights an important area of the business that will shape our future firm.
“We’re ambitious and attracting
and developing talent is a key part of our ongoing growth strategy, which is why it’s great to see Louise, who joined the firm as a trainee, reach partnership this year. “Our new partners play an important role as RSM ambassadors and as first- choice advisers to middle market leaders in the UK - delivering high quality advice to help clients achieve their strategic goals. “I look forward to working
alongside Louise to realise the exciting ambitions we have set ourselves.”
to present their story to a live audience comprised of key stakeholders and industry experts. Applications are only being
accepted from students in the West Midlands, who can not have or be studying an undergraduate degree.
Birmingham City University’s pro
vice chancellor and executive dean of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, professor Hanifa Shah, said: “We look forward to working with the team there to identify and welcome bright new diverse STEM talent.”
Visit:
www.millenniumpoint.org.uk /scholarship
University maps the speed of the galaxy
The oldest stars in our galaxy are also the busiest, moving more rapidly than their younger counterparts, according to new research from the University of Birmingham. The findings provide fresh insights into the history of our galaxy and
increase understanding of how stars form and evolve. Researchers calculate that the old stars are moving more quickly in
and out of the disc - the pancake-shaped mass at the heart of the galaxy where most stars are located. Dr Ted Mackereth, a galactic archaeologist at the University of Birmingham and lead author of the paper, said: “The specific way that the stars move tells us which of these processes has been dominant in forming the disc we see today. “We think older stars are move active because they have been
around the longest, and because they were formed during a period when the Galaxy was a bit more violent, with lots of star formation happening and lots of disturbance from gasses and smaller satellite galaxies. “There are lots of different processes at work, and untangling all
these helps us to build up a picture of the history of our Galaxy.” The study uses data from the Gaia satellite, working to chart the
movements of around one-billion stars in the Milky Way. The Birmingham team, working with colleagues at the university of
Toronto and teams involved with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, took these different data strands and calculated the differences in velocity between different sets of stars grouped by age.
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