Featured publications
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Let’s Get Technical: Priorities for the government
In 2023, we published Let’s Get Technical, our manifesto for professional and technical universities. With a change of government taking place In summer 2024, we published an updated policy publication,…
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New report on the barriers to expanding healthcare degree apprenticeships
To coincide with National Apprenticeship Week, University Alliance (UA) and the University of Derby have jointly published a comprehensive report that explores the current enablers of and barriers to delivering…
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To what degree: Understanding what UK businesses look for in graduates
When hiring, employers tend to value a graduate’s skills, the subject they studied, and vocational experience gained during their degree ahead of grades achieved or whether the graduate studied at…
Stories and case studies
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The little book of big impact
Read a selection of case studies from across the University Alliance, spanning skills, innovation, research and community and business engagement. Every year, UA collects hundreds of short case studies from…
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Developing the next generation of researchers
Read a selection of 22 case studies from researchers across the UK who are members of our Doctoral Training Alliance. The Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) was founded by UA to…
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Apprentices of the Alliance
Alliance universities are some of the foremost providers of degree apprenticeships, with apprentices studying everything from Nursing, to Quantity Surveying, to Automotive Engineering all the way to Digital Design. This…
Briefings, insights and submissions
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UA briefing: Higher education reform
On 4 November 2024, the Secretary of State for Education made a statement to the House of Commons outlining plans for an inflationary increase in higher education tuition fees and…
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University Alliance respond to OfS strategy consultation for 2025-2030
University Alliance have submitted their response to the Office for Students strategy consultation for the years 2025 – 2030. Find the full submission here. Overview of the response Whilst University…
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University Alliance’s submission to the Spending Review
University Alliance has made its submission to the Treasury ahead of this year’s Spending Review. The submission highlights how professional and technical universities are critical to delivering the government’s decade…
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New report on the barriers to expanding healthcare degree apprenticeships
To coincide with National Apprenticeship Week, University Alliance (UA) and the University of Derby have jointly published a comprehensive report that explores the current enablers of and barriers to delivering…
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University Alliance submits proposals to the 10 Year Health Plan
University Alliance has made a submission to the ‘Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future’ consultation, as part of a national conversation to develop the 10…
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University Alliance publish Invest 2035 consultation response
Our consultation response focuses on how professional and technical universities contributeto many of the cross-cutting enablers of a pro-business environment identified in the greenpaper and how these can be optimised…
