The Ealing Wind Orchestra plays debut concert at the University of West London

The recently formed orchestra is currently made up of 35 musicians, eight of whom are students at the University’s London College of Music. The free concert took place in Weston Hall and included music from The Lord of the Rings and Mission: Impossible films.

Ealing Wind Orchestra performing at the London College of Music

The University of West London’s BSc Games, Design and Animation students team up for a Games Jam

Students from UWL’s London School of Film, Media and Design (LSFMD) and London College of Music (LCM) joined together in January for a week-long ‘Games Jam’, with three teams each creating a completed game in just five days. The week ended with awards for the best games produced.

Students from the London School of Film, Media and Design and the London College of Music working together on a computer, developing a video game

UWL Chartered Manager degree apprentices get the inside scoop from Claude Littner

The UWL alumnus and renowned international businessperson shared golden insights with students at the University’s eponymously named Claude Littner Business School.

Chartered Manager degree apprentice students and staff at the Clause Littner Business School posing for a photograph with Claude Littner

Special delivery: UWL degree apprentices enjoy landing air freight in the London Docklands

UWL apprenticeships help individuals to develop the skills and knowledge required for a rewarding career. Second-year degree apprentice students on our BSc (Hons) Express Delivery Manager course participated in a special morning at UWL’s FlightPad Boeing 737 simulator.

A degree apprentice student using the UWL FlightPad flight simulator

Meet Frasier Crouch, the confident BA Business Studies graduate now helping other degree apprentices be "future ready"

Frasier combines working with Circana (formerly IRI/NPD), a market-leading consultancy on consumer behaviour, with helping other degree apprentices succeed.

Fraiser Crouch

Meet Sarah, the inspiring Digital Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship Graduate

Sarah Jane Bartlett is the Housing Grants & Adaptations Manager at Hillingdon Council. The Council supported her dream to study for a BSc Digital Technology Solutions degree apprenticeship at the University of West London.

Sarah Jane Bartlett

University of West London visiting professor appointed as new Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission

Deputy Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) and social mobility ambassador Tan Ikram CBE works with the School of Law (SoL) at UWL.

Tan Ikram

UWL Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences meets the Princess Royal at opening of MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) building

Dr Bernadine Idowu, Associate Professor at the University of West London, was among those invited to meet the Princess as she toured the new Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) building on Imperial College’s Hammersmith Hospital campus.

Bernadine Idowu smiling and shaking hands with Princess Anne

Olivier-nominated composer Andrew T Mackay advises music student workshops and gives public lecture at the University of West London

Andrew, whose work on the theatrical adaptation of Life of Pi was honoured with a 2022 Olivier Awards nomination, is an alumnus of UWL’s London College of Music (LCM) having studied piano and clarinet there from 1982-1985.

Andrew Mackey standing onstage with LCM staff at the Arts in Conversation event

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