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News Release from: Technology Innovation Centre
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2004
Guardian recognises skills development
The Technology Innovation Centre's position as a leading technology teaching and training institution has been underpinned in the 2004 Guardian university league tables.
The Technology Innovation Centre's position as a leading technology teaching and training institution has been underpinned in the 2004 Guardian university league tables The TIC is the University of Central England campus where a wide range of technologies are both practised and taught
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Strong links and partnerships with both international and local Industry have brought about the TIC's top-ten rating when it comes to general engineering job prospects.
Particularly strong headway has been achieved in both mechanical and electronic engineering over the last year.
In making an increasingly significant contribution to raising skills in UK industry, the TIC also scores highly for adding-value to students from a multiplicity of entry routes.
A special role has grown for the TIC in taking students from a wide range of educational backgrounds, many having already had work experience, and develops high skill-values in them.
A strong ratio of teaching staff to students, and a finger on the pulse of technologies relevant to modern industry needs, has proved key in this respect.
With UCE occupying an improved position in the top third of the overall UK rankings, the TIC is playing a valuable role in strengthening its position as one of the leading, so-called, "new" universities.
UCE is now seen to be "creeping up the rankings".
The TIC's strengths are founded on a wide base of technologies.
And although it scores highly in traditional engineering disciplines, it also has leading positions in electronics and new media.
A glance at the TIC's most popular courses indicates the institution's agility in responding to the disciplines and skills most needed by the modern business world.
These include widely diverse subjects from music, sound and multimedia technologies through to automotive engineering.
Chief Executive Dr Barry Henley says of the 2004 report: "The TIC has particular strengths".
"These are borne out of our partnerships with such companies as Cisco and Microsoft, and our leading role in the transfer of technology into traditional trades".
"Our close relationship with a wide range of industries from digital TV to environmental control ensures a virtually unrivalled standard of hands-on teaching".
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