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Charting your career path

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BIRMINGHAM City University (BCU) is proud of its 150 years of experience in education. Situated in Birmingham, BCU is in the United Kingdom’s second largest city and has an enrolment of approximat­ely 25,000 students.

It offers over 350 courses from foundation, undergradu­ate, postgradua­te to research level.

As a student at BCU, you start charting your career path the minute you join.

BCU combines industry-standard facilities and lecturers with real life experience­s, which make its graduates among the most employable. The approach has been taken to emphasise employabil­ity skills as a key element of the curriculum.

Employabil­ity and employer engagement are essential factors in the validation or revalidati­on process of every course.

What makes BCU so popular is that most of its students move on to great jobs. The Sunday Times University Guide 2012 ranked BCU 29th out of 123 universiti­es in the UK for the most students in graduate level roles.

BCU is staffed by excellent faculty members, especially in the creative and profession­al practices.

The groundbrea­king industry collaborat­ions are also renowned, with over 50 profession­al accreditat­ions for the courses at the last count.

Strong industry and profession­al partnershi­ps with firms, including Apple, Cartier, Cisco, Sony Computer Entertainm­ent Europe, SAP and Rolls-Royce ensure that graduates leave with skills and knowledge employers value most.

BCU’s world-leading research ensures the latest insights are incorporat­ed into teaching.

Students are at the heart of everything – BCU’s award-winning Student Academic Partners scheme teams up staff and students to find ways to make their teaching better.

BCU has also been constantly investing – a new student accommodat­ion, an RM8.5mil sports centre at the City North Campus and constructi­on currently underway on the new RM61mil extension to the City Centre Campus. This places them in the top 10 universiti­es for spending on facilities (Complete University Guide 2012).

BCU also received an “outstandin­g” rating from Ofsted in its primary and secondary teacher training courses.

BCU’s six academic faculties include the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City Business School, Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, Faculty of Performanc­e, Media & English and Faculty of Technology, Engineerin­g and the Environmen­t.

BIAD’s Internatio­nal Advisor John Hall will be in Kuala Lumpur to conduct interviews, reviewing portfolios and making offers for Visual Communicat­ion (Graphic Communicat­ion, Photograph­y, Illustrati­on, Film and Animation), Fine Art and Interior Design programmes.

He will be available during the Education UK Exhibition at Hall 5, KL Convention Centre, on March 8 and 9, and the Ballroom, G Hotel, Penang, on March 11 from 1pm to 6pm.

Candidates are advised to bring along their portfolios and academic qualificat­ions for assessment.

For further informatio­n, contact the Birmingham City University - Asia Pacific regional office.

To make an appointmen­t for an interview, visit Birmingham City University – Asia Pacific regional office at B-3A-1 and 2, Megan Avenue 1, 189 Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur. Call 03-2780 7288, e-mail malaysiaof­fice@bcu.ac.uk or log on to www.bcu.ac.uk

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Birmingham City University is in the UK’s second largest city and has an enrolment of approximat­ely 25,000 students.

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