Leading accountancy firm supports local schoolchildren with donation of iPads

With the latest current lockdown in force and thousands of parents across the city home-learning with their children, the need has never been more acute for electronic learning devices at home - so one Hull-based chartered accountants has come to the aid of local families. The divide between those that have and those that have not has quickly become apparent and increasingly detrimental to some...

New industry-leading partners open up exciting opportunities for Ron Dearing UTC students

Hull’s Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC) has brought on board four new, industry-leading partners to open up even more opportunities for its students. The UK’s leading shower manufacturer Kohler Mira, laser specialist Luxinar and smart tech company Sauce have become the employer-led school’s latest major partners, while Heald, which designs and manufactures world-class hostile...

University launches centre for ‘water cultures’ after £1.35m funding

The University of Hull has secured more than £1 million of funding for a new centre that will explore humanity’s relationship with water in the ‘green-blue’ regions of the world, past, present and future. The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures will pioneer a new, humanities-led, interdisciplinary research area, the ‘green-blue’ humanities. Researchers will learn from the...

Browns Books opens new chapter in growth story with move to Melton West

Educational supplier Browns Books is opening a new chapter in the history of the business by relocating to the Melton West business park. The business, which supplies libraries, schools, colleges and universities across the UK and abroad, is moving to a new, purpose-built head office and distribution centre at the growing East Yorkshire business location being developed by Wykeland Group. Browns...

Arty animal

Quite a lot of the entrepreneurs we interview for this magazine have found their calling later in life, having fallen into their new career path almost by accident. For creative artists, though, it’s often a lifelong passion, something that’s part of the fabric of their being. Born to sing, born to act… or born to draw, in the case of Calvin Innes. However, not many arty types manage to turn...