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  1. Ensuring the sustainability of coffee using history

    …ngs created in the past. He argues that an emphasis on quality has enabled today’s consumer to use coffee to express their personality. This is crucial to the industry – paying for quality equates to sustainability, ensuring consumer protection and improving the livelihoods of farmers around the world. The value of heritage “Using history and heritage to tell the story of coffee opens up new channels of communication for the international coffee i…

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  2. Alliance universities are fulfilling a civic role within their communities

    …https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/30/community-legal-clinic-at-anglia-ruskin-university/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/30/accounting-for-community-engaging-students-aces-scheme-at-oxford-brookes/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/29/university-of-greenwich-support-local-mutual-aid-group-during-covid-19/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/08/24/supporting-refugees-in-south-wales/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/30/mend-the-ga…

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  3. BCU architecture graduate helps build London’s Nightingale Hospital

    …care beds over the coming weeks to ease the already struggling NHS infrastructure in its battle with the escalating coronavirus pandemic. When complete, this would be the largest ICU facility in the world. Due to the timeframe and the sheer scale of the task, solutions had to be simple and repeatable. Utilising and adapting material typically used by the ExCeL Centre for trade shows enabled the design and construction of the bed bays to be replic…

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  4. The Teaching Excellence Alliance – Strategic Overview

    …on – and universities that focus on professional and technical skills are crucial to delivering the skills employers need (Industrial Strategy) Equally, if our students are to succeed in a world shaped by next generation technology, we need to equip them not only with the knowledge and skills they need but also with the right personal aptitudes and capabilities; resilience and conscious curiosity; and personal social and cultural capital. (Social…

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  5. What is the Teaching Excellence Alliance?

    …lliance (TEA) seeks to enhance and promote this approach, at a time when scrutiny of teaching performance, value for money and skills gaps and productivity are high on the political agenda. The TEA recognises that sustained student success in professional and technical education is achieved through the expertise and commitment of individual teaching staff, of innovative course design teams, and of institution-level interventions. The TEA is made u…

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  6. Adjusting the focus – gaining a clearer picture of university engagement with the arts and culture

    …ores University and the Tate Liverpool reveals how these relationships are mutually beneficial and can be expanded to incorporate multiple strands of work. The partnership provides the university with unique learning opportunities for its students both within the gallery itself and through live events such as the recent collaboration between the gallery and the English National Ballet which included animations and music produced by Screen School a…

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  7. Learning as a researcher: University of Portsmouth

    …k from staff and students. This revealed the development of respectful and mutually beneficial relationships between staff and students, which contributed to continued research partnerships and transformational learning beyond the life of the module. Shared staff and student peer reviewed journal articles have resulted from some projects too, demonstrating this to be an authentic research exercise, one that has now been expanded into Level 6. The…

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  8. Health networks & partnerships: Teaming up in the community

    …ommunity projects include an organised walk by Charlton and the Community Trust to raise funds and awareness for its Down’s Syndrome project, which is being supported by the university. These tie-ups are contributing to Greenwich’s new Sports, Health & Wellbeing Strategy. Building on links with local communities, the overall aim is to support higher levels of participation in sport and physical activity. Greenwich has also launched a strategic par…

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  9. Submission to the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance – Second call for evidence

    …ndertake a single function but instead operate a set of interdependent and mutually reinforcing activities. This is not just about the inseparability of teaching and research but also about the close partnership working through knowledge exchange, business engagement and private enterprise. If you take the delivery of high-level skills for economic growth as one example, universities are working to balance supply and demand of applications against…

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