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Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, in conversation with Professor Brian Cox, physicist and broadcaster.

Dame Kate Bingham DBE, Former Chair of the vaccine task force, reflects on her previous role, the need for more women in engineering and why she supports NMITE.

Discover NMITE Ignition and the importance of philanthropy in achieving the NMITE mission. Our Regular Giving programme, Ignition, enables you to support NMITE's New Engineers through transformative education.

NMITE Honorary Professor, Peter Goodhew, writes in recognition of World Creativity and Innovation Day 2021. But what do David Foster Wallace and Charles Dickens have to do with the future of engineering? 

Today is International Women’s Day. A day to highlight and celebrate women’s achievement, raise awareness against bias, and to act for equality – as well as recognise events that have previously done so.

International Darwin Day; a global celebration of science and humanity. Professor Helen Rogers writes why the work of Darwin, even now, does such an inspirational job of summing up the importance of both scientific bravery, and beauty, in a message that is so pertinent for today.

It’s National Apprenticeship Week, and here at NMITE, work-readiness is in our DNA. In fact, that’s what we were founded to do – create an environment in which learners of all backgrounds and at all career stages could become engineers who can add value quickly and adapt to the changing nature of technology and engineering.

Women can do, and have done, incredible things when it comes to STEM. Today, we will be celebrating some of the great ‘firsts’ achieved by women over the years, as we continue to inspire the next, more inclusive, generation of engineers.

Tim Belden has recently joined NMITE as Assistant Professor for Digital Engineering and is passionate about the application of digital technology to enhance engineering projects. On Data Privacy Day, Tim gives some insight into the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and why new engineers may need to familiarise themselves with the policy. 

On this 3rd International Day of Education, NMITE expresses its support for the 1.6 billion students in over 190 countries who have had their routine, friendships, lives, and learning interrupted.

Following on from CAO Beverley Gibbs' work with the Engineering Professors' Council on bringing the UK engineering education community together to address our key challenges as we pivot to online teaching, we are revisiting the question:

What has the pandemic taught us about teaching engineering, and what can we build on when we return to face-to-face teaching?

Read on for the opportunity to share your own practice or to propose a case study before 31st March 2021.

October is ADHD Awareness month. NMITE’s Chief Academic Officer, Beverley Gibbs, has a diagnosis of ADHD (Primarily Inattentive) and has pulled together some top tips for students who wish to enter, or who have already entered, higher education. And they’re worth reading!

It’s World Food Day, and NMITE Professor, Pooh Ling, has given us the hard-hitting facts on food waste, world hunger, and intensive farming, and why we must work together to engineer a solution to one of the world’s biggest ongoing issues.

This #WorldSightDay, Gemma, NMITE’s Receptionist and Office Administrator has spoken candidly about her own Visual Impairment, and the impact clever engineering has had on adapting the everyday items many of us take for granted – but could our world be more accessible?

It’s International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer and NMITE educator, Helen Rogers (whose passion for atmospheric science is evident through 20 years’ experience as a leading scientist) has given us the facts on why we all need to care a little more about the ozone layer and what can be achieved if we demonstrate real change, now.

It's World Humanitarian Day and NMITE educator, Neil Rogers, has given an insight into his own humanitarian endeavours, how volunteering can provide a sense of worth and well-being to all who partake, and how humanitarianism and engineering must work in sync with one another to address some of the world's most challenging problems.

Happy #lefthandersday to all of NMITE's left handed friends and supporters! This year, the very brilliant Peter Metcalfe, Associate Professor at NMITE, has written about how using the 'correct' hand is a critical survival strategy in a world where the numbers are stacked against him.