Born From a Need: A model for cooperation that creates positive links between business and education.
Various disciplines and faculties
Our programmes span schools, Undergraduate learning and Post Graduate too!
Our Mission
Brief Cases, an initiative from The Heaven Company, aims to bridge the gap between academic study and commercial reality. The scheme provides real-life learning opportunities for students and scope for Universities and schools to collaborate with industry.
Our Impact
We’re a small organisation, making a big impact.
Brief Cases bridges the gap between education and business by creating industry-based projects that add value to degree students, and has seen continuous growth since its conception in 2011.
1000+
Students per year
Up to a thousand students go through the Brief Cases programme annually across the various partnered institutions.
12+
Years Serving communities
A long standing project, growing year-on- year, in both achievement and uptake.
50+
academics annually reached
From high school level through to post graduate, we have the right course for you.
“Some schemes provide little in the way of contextual information and students are left with little help or support.
What sets Brief Cases apart is the structured approach and the level of industry engagement. I was extremely impressed by the briefing and the amount of information, support and client feedback given to the students throughout the project.
Brief Cases offers a valuable and comprehensive learning experience which significantly enhances the development of key design and employability skills.”
- Darren Raven, Programme Leader BA (Hons) – University of Salford & National Teaching Fellow
Mission Statement
Fostering home grown talent; a highly skilled workforce is our best guarantee of sustainable industries for the future, and Brief Cases is a way of building that.
Brief Cases, a model for cooperation between academia and industry bridges the gap between education and business by creating industry-based projects that add value to student learning.
Students responding to our survey said they found Brief Cases helpful for the learning aims at their University. Some 96% of responding students agree that design has a role to play in sustainability.
“There needs to be a constructive discussion between university and business, feeding back to the academy and the broader higher education agenda, to ensure we have a shared future
- working with Brief Cases empowers that conversation.”
- Dr Don Parker, University of BRISTOL
Our Programmes
Launched as a contribution to bridging the gap between academe and the world of work, Brief Cases has proven highly successful partly because it fulfils an obvious need, but also because it has a number of unique, ethical features.
Our Brief Cases programmes stretch across the board, taking route in various industries and all retaining the common theme of forward-thinking sustainability.
Brief Cases for Schools
This award-winning school engagement initiative is a tried and tested 10-week taught programme that is sector-specific, timetabled and delivered in school classrooms bringing education and the world of work closer together. The Built Environment is a key focus area and the highly successful Architecture and Sustainability – looking to the future initiative has been running for a number of years with award-winning architects and master planners SGP as a trusted client partner.
Brief Cases PostGRADUate
A work-based practical learning opportunity is offered through one of the existing 20 credit modules in the Department of Natural Sciences and also in the Department of Law and Politics at Middlesex University. Tailored for the students on the MSc Sustainability and Environmental Management and the MA Global Governance and Sustainable Development course, it has been developed in collaboration with The Heaven Company London Ltd and Middlesex University.
Brief Cases continues to grow and extend reach with Post Graduate Masters students on the International Relations course in Dubai.
Brief Cases University
Operating across a number of universities in the UK, United States and Dubai, with industry partners spanning numerous sectors, Brief Cases university projects are assessed as part of the degree and students receive university credit in fulfilment of the course. Brief Cases bridges the gap between academic study and commercial reality and offers a valuable and comprehensive learning experience that significantly enhances the development of key employability skills.
Brief Cases ONLIne
An e-learning Suite for those who prefer to master education projects online. Project content spanning a range of topics and industry sectors is delivered through interactive webinars and online feedback sessions with recordings made available to be viewed at a time to suit the individual learner.
Our Team
Get Involved
We need to culturally change how we think about sustainability to make the biggest possible changes.
Be part of the change!
There are many different ways to get involved. If you think the Brief Cases manifesto fits in with your aims and ideals, give us a message and we’ll see where you can fit.
Register interest in a Programme
Now is the time to change the path of future generations. Sustainability matters and it starts with you!
Volunteer opportunities
The projects are rapidly expanding and we always need a spare pair of hands!
Thank you!
Our programmes are made possible due to forward-thinking businesses that align with us to support the Brief Cases mission.
