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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.

It's officially International Youth Day 2020, and the theme is 'Youth Engagement for Global Action'. Honorary NMITE Professor, Peter Goodhew gives his thoughts on the importance of young people, and young engineers in particular, in solving some of the worlds most pressing problems.

Earlier last month, the team here at NMITE held a livestream with many of our financial supporters, that shared our plans for the campus being built at Skylon Park in Rotherwas, Hereford. For those who could not attend this, or if you have a keen interest in the development of the site, then read on as we reveal our intended plans and what’s to be expected for the future NMITE campus.

We caught up with Rachel Carr on Business Checkmates’ partnership with NMITE, and why the Business Start-Up workshop is capable of helping to provide positive skills to those looking to take that first step into a new world of business.

To mark International Women in Engineering Day 2020, we spoke to some of NMITE's leading educators about their careers and how the centre can help increase diversity in the sector.

At NMITE, we are proud to support the Veteran community and alongside our values of inclusivity, equality and diversity we look to further develop our understanding as to how we can continue our journey as an employer that provides further opportunities and next level support to all.

It’s World Environment Day and at NMITE we’ve been talking about ways in which we can be…well, ‘better’! We look to do more than what is expected of us and to excel as an organisation that cares about the impact we make and the example we set for others.

Every year, during the month of June (chosen because that is when the Stonewall Riots took place back in 1969) the LGBTQ+ community celebrates Pride in a number of different ways. Despite celebrations looking a little different this year due to the global pandemic, Pride will still march on (virtually) throughout June!

Mary Kenyon—James previously worked as a Mental Health Nurse for both the NHS and the private sector. Following this, Mary has spent the past 16 years in the Further and Higher Education sectors using her wealth of experience to support young people. We now welcome Mary as Head of Student Experience at NMITE, and for Mental Health Week (which takes place this year between 18th -24th May), she gives us her thoughts on why it is so important to be kind.

NMITE's Head of Fundraising, Harriet Dearden, reflects on the subject of fundraising during times of uncertainty.