LawIRL, a new offering at The City Law School, will help current law students gain important practical experience and connections. Sally Gill, Director of the City Community Legal Advice Centre and LawIRL, hopes City Law alumni will join the effort to support and inspire students to enter the legal profession. “It gives students this ladder,”…Continue Reading LawIRL – Setting up City’s Law students for success
By Jason Barlow The Covid-19 Pandemic affected everyone. Many of the impacts were obvious, others less so. When City’s teaching and learning moved temporarily online, it quickly became apparent that students’ access to digital resources was a far greater issue than had originally been anticipated. Generous donations from alumni gave students access to better technology. The…Continue Reading “I found that I’d been struggling with the phone more than I’d realised” – Alumni donations making a difference
The New Year Honours list 2023 recognises the achievements and services of people across the UK, from all walks of life. We are delighted to announce and congratulate the five City and Bayes alumni who have been recognised for their commitment to various services. Knight Commander of the Order of Bath Vice Admiral Sir Nicholas Hine…Continue Reading Alumni recognised in the New Year Honours list 2023
Ahead of the Great British Businesswoman Awards, we caught up with Palak Tewary (Executive MBA, 2010), who has been shortlisted in the Banking & Finance Businesswoman category. Palak shares insightful information about women in business, her role at chartered certified accountants and chartered tax advisors’ firm, Price Mann, and her studies at Bayes. Find out more… Congratulations…Continue Reading Fostering female leadership
Six years ago, Yasmeen Cohen (BA Journalism and Economics, 2014) attended an event that opened her eyes to the destruction of the environment. Today, she is Sustainability & Climate Analytics Lead at Deloitte and about to publish her first novel, The Helix. A fantasy novel for young adults, The Helix falls into the climate fiction (cli-fi)…Continue Reading Raising climate awareness through cli-fi – An interview with Yasmeen Cohen about her YA novel The Helix
When Oreoluwa Shoyinka graduated in 2021, she found it surprisingly difficult to gain graduate level employment, despite receiving a First Class Honours and The City Law School Certificate of Academic Achievement. As experience seemed to trump grades, Oreoluwa turned to City’s Career Service for advice and is now back on track to becoming a barrister….Continue Reading Experience vs academic achievement – The insights of a recent graduate
Inspired by the courage of his grandmother, Jennie Shearan, who campaigned tirelessly for environmental justice in her neighbourhood, Gianfranco Rosolia (Executive MBA, 2016) has penned her story in a recently published book, CLEAN AIR. It explores the many challenges she faced and the strong perseverance she had to continue campaigning for a better quality of…Continue Reading An inspirational fight against pollution: CLEAN AIR
Dear Alumni, Welcome to the first newsletter of the 2022/23 academic year, and I hope you are well. It was with the deepest regret we recorded the death of Her Majesty The Queen. Her Majesty was this country’s longest reigning monarch, serving as Head of State for over 70 years with a life that was…Continue Reading A message from Professor André Spicer, Dean of Bayes Business School – September 2022
When I wrote to you earlier this year, I was compelled to observe that we ‘live in history’. It was with the deepest regret that we recorded the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen dedicated her life to the service of her people, both in this country and throughout the Commonwealth. She represented…Continue Reading Message from City President, Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein
City, University of London has two exciting opportunities, enabling you to work with some of our current students and secure project support at no cost to you Micro-Placements Programme 2022/2023: Interested in providing our students professional work experience and have additional resource over summer 2023? The Micro-Placement Programme is an exciting social-mobility initiative which aims…Continue Reading Could you offer City students a placement or industry led project?