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  1. How Anglia Ruskin University’s Live Brief modules are enhancing graduate employability

    October 26, 2023

    …benefiting 5,989 students. All-round engagement with an active curriculum ARU’s investment in our Live Brief strategy has been considerable. It ensures that students relate the knowledge and skills they are developing to real-world problems. This not only improves engagement with employability, it also reshapes staff and student engagement with the active curriculum itself. Now two years into our Live Brief approach, our development focus is payin…

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  2. 2021 at University Alliance: the year in review

    December 21, 2021

    …ector showcasing session with DfE officials on the role of universities in running Multi-Academy Trusts. We didn’t pull punches in our response to the ITT market review, and subsequently campaigned for the government to halt its implementation. This is an issue we continue to engage on. In much sadder news, we lost a dear and well-respected colleague this Summer: Professor Jane Turner, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Teesside University, who made such a hu…

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  3. University Alliance ‘20 in 2020′

    December 17, 2020

    …which was signed by 70 universities and businesses and covered in-depth on BBC Newsnight. 5. The Doctoral Training Alliance went virtual, delivering four online residential events and 55% more elective workshops than previous years (21 in total) on a range of subjects, including research skills, wellbeing, motivation, presentation and influencing skills to name a few. DTA researchers were given the opportunity to showcase their research to the wid…

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  4. Middlesex’s innovative platforming of ‘Pro-localism’ through The Newham Plays

    September 20, 2024

    …o the challenge.’ (Steve Nicholls, Founding Trustee Director, Royal Docks Trust) As with previous Newham Plays, there will be a filmed performance of the Madge Gill play, directed and edited by Middlesex BA Film graduates. This experience will help enhance their CVs and employability in the form of trailers and archive filming, demonstrating skills in post-production. MDX School of Arts will act as the play’s principal producing partner, thus enab…

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  5. Commuting students – enhancing a different student experience

    September 27, 2019

    …shoehorn them into a ‘traditional’ model that, for many, feels outdated in today’s busy world. For those of us who work in universities our interest, surely, should be in understanding and enhancing that modern experience. Students sitting in booths in the LRC cafe. (University of Hertfordshire/ Ian Scott) At Hertfordshire, as a diverse university with a commitment to transforming the lives of all our students, we are learning to work from the pos…

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  6. How Professional Doctorates are empowering nurses and midwives to lead

    November 15, 2023

    …esis, Oxford Brookes University Bourner, T., Bowden, R. & Laing, S. (2001). Professional Doctorates in England. Studies in Higher Education, 26(1), 65-83. Buyanga M (2023) How do organisational and social contexts influence mealtimes mealtimes on wards caring for the older person aged 65 years and above Submitted for examination for a professional doctorate, Oxford Brookes University May R (2021) Strategic Plan for Research Chief Nursing Officer….

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    Helen Aveyard

  7. We must support the diversification of academia’s media face

    August 30, 2021

    …e right direction, says Professor Vini Lander The recent appearance on the BBC’s Newsnight programme of Stanley Johnson, the prime minister’s father, as an “environmentalist” caused quite a stir. After all, the UK’s universities are full of academics admirably well qualified to comment on the climate crisis. Why hadn’t the BBC given one of them a call? But even if it had, it is likely that the figure the producers plumped for, while better qualifi…

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  8. Our welcome note to the new Prime Minister

    July 23, 2019

    …tertiary academic, technical and professional education and training and crucially, delivering hope and aspiration to every generation. Take LS Lowry educated at what we now know as Salford University arguably one of the most critically important British artists of the 20th century; Cressida Cowell, the newly appointed Children’s Laureate, alumna from University of Brighton; Bear Grylls former SAS service man and the youngest-ever Chief Scout edu…

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    Boris Johnson

  9. How volunteering for the NHS helped me become a pandemic-resilient PGR (and introduced me to the Queen!)

    June 10, 2021

    …the progress of knowledge in my specialist field, I could also support the lives and livelihoods of those in my local community. In fact, the latter can be deeply satisfying and could potentially be the grit to get your PhD over the line. Can spending five minutes of your time for someone in your community really be sufficient to turn you into a dauntless, extra-resilient PhD researcher? From my experience, yes! When I hear people whom I have supp…

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  10. Explainer: international students at Alliance universities

    March 28, 2024

    …seini secured a full-time job as a Quantity Surveyor with Bouygues UK Construction, a leading construction company. Husseini Musa (Nigeria) – MSc Construction Project Management, Robert Gordon University. Having spent several years as Senior Architectural Designer at Places for People, one of the UK’s largest social hosing providers, Shabnam now puts her architectural training into practice as Design Lead at Modularwise.  Modularwise is a leading…

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