As a city with three universities, Birmingham is about to be hit with thousands of new students. The helpful people at Fused have even done a special issue just for them to try to get them up to speed on all things Brum and beyond: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! You can see the whole damn thing online in a nice looking Flash interface that I haven’t got the hang of yet. It might be handy to see what students like these days, in case you need to infiltrate them for any reason.
Birmingham Live And Learn is a sort of blog set up to attract students to Brum funded by the unis and various bits of EU money. We'll see if it lasts, but it has a very attractive layout…
The lovely refers-to-himself-in-the-third-person Ronald over at the Birmingham Polytechnic Blog has posted this photo of some new merchandise. A pervert lion without any trousers on. Must we throw this filth at 50% of our kids? Hat Tip to the original pervert lion Goaleo.
UCE are “in the process” of changing their name, and they want Birmingham in the title as: Research shows that universities that have the name of their location in their title are more easily recognised and remembered by potential applicants, increasing their ability to recruit able and committed students. Wikipedia (so caveats apply) says that it will either be “Birmingham City University, Birmingham Chamberlain University or Birmingham Metropolitan University.”. My money is on Chamberlain, as Birmingham City University sounds like it’s a football academy, and Metropolitan sounds too Manchester. But, before they decide can you think of a better name? Birmingham Frank Skinner University sounds good to me – and he is an alumnus.
