I see that Birmingham College of Food and Tourism has re-branded, as the imaginatively titled University College Birmingham.
This means our great city is now graced with Birmingham City University, the University of Birmingham and University College Birmingham.
…Anyone else think people are going to find this ever so slightly confusing?
A good way round it would be to name the University after a famous person from Birmingham. I suppose you could have:
Birmingham Nigel Mansell University
Toyah Wilcox University
or even:
The University of Ozzy Osbourne, Birmingham
and specially for you, seeing as you are the Labour Club:
Birmingham Neville Chamberlain University!
By the way, if you see my brother Alex Wright, give him a friendly thump from me! And ask him what the hell an intelligent lad like him is doing in the Labour Party …
When UCE became BCU, there was rumour that Aston might also change to ensure people knew where the campus was, so it would be the University of Aston in Birmingham.
We are not related, we are not related, we are not related…
Couldn’t Food and Tourism just rebranded as what everyone calls it? Birmingham College of Cakes.
Spoken like a true WMANUS exec member!!
I have just discovered that Birmingham also harbours an entity called City College.
Is there no imagination in this conurbation?!
I think the comment from Alex Wright is truly offensive to those people who attend the college of Food and Tourism?
Food technology I personally believe is one of the most important challenges facing our country. We see that obesity levels are rising massively in the western world, and a lot of this is because our children do noty realise what they are eating.
Hopefully if people can be educated at the college of food in Birmingham can be major part of what will be one of the biggest problems of the twenty first century.