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  1. Collaboration will be key in delivering the NHS Workforce Plan

    July 5, 2023

    …ding workforce solutions into communities. Collaboration is essential to delivery of the plan, but more importantly, ensuring that the NHS survives. Currently, we use broad brush measures to determine whether we have enough staff in the system to meet need – how many nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, doctors do we need to support the population in this region? While this is obviously important, it will not encourage health and social care employ…

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    Dr Denise Baker

  2. Lifelong Learning – is it worth the hard yards?

    May 16, 2023

    …proffering workable solutions to complex issues, and now is one of those crucial times where early engagement could help steer a more favourable path through the quagmire. The LLE, on the face of it, captures everything Alliance universities are good at: increasing access and participation amongst disadvantaged groups; addressing regional and national skills needs to boost economic growth; and delivering the skills and knowledge required for the…

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  3. Obsessions with outcomes won’t deliver the flexible revolution

    February 15, 2021

    …egulating HE quality is going to have to change for flexible provision to truly take off across the sector. For one thing, the Government needs to become a lot more relaxed about continuation. As the Dearing Report observed back in 1997: “non-completion will become an increasingly difficult concept to measure if more students undertake higher education programmes in a flexible way, over a long period of time.” It also needs to be more patient abou…

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    Susanna Kalitowski

  4. Alliance universities joined by Minister for roundtable on apprenticeship and skills

    November 12, 2020

    …an emphasise a false divide between the two, the government should build a world-class ecosystem which incentivises greater joined-up working to meet local and regional needs. With their long-established partnerships with local FE providers, Alliance universities are already drawing on this local collaboration to deliver pathways and opportunity, particularly at levels 4 and 5, and hope that future reforms prioritise this collaboration. With the o…

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  5. The importance of listening to businesses in developing degree apprenticeships

    February 6, 2020

    …to seek regular feedback and involvement from them in curriculum design, structure and the way it is delivered. This helps us ensure the needs of the apprentice and the employer are met, regardless of the businesses’ size. Our meeting with businesses last week is just the beginning of a continuing collaboration. We’re aiming to build a wider network of professional bodies, employers, training providers and other key stakeholders so that we can col…

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  6. Why we’re supporting the campaign for creative education

    August 19, 2019

    …universities and students, we believe the creative arts are fundamentally crucial to society as a whole. With celebrated artists from L.S. Lowry to Grayson Perry; multiple MOBO, Grammy, BAFTA and Brit award winners, and a former children’s laureate and current poet laureate among our members’ alumni, we know better than anyone the colossal cultural value of our creative arts sector. But we also see first-hand the economic and social effect of the…

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    Jar of Paint Brushes

  7. AUGAR: Our CEO Vanessa Wilson Sets Out Her Initial Thoughts

    May 30, 2019

    …t’s never been quite clear what problem she was trying to solve: serious structural problems in FE funding or having a political retail offer on fees to combat Labour? The sector has been waiting an awful long time for this and it risks being dead on arrival with no cross-government agreement on next steps yet, certainly no backing from Treasury to pay for it and at a time of great political uncertainty and volatility. Secondly, university finance…

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    Augar review

  8. We’re failing students unless closing the attainment gap is a priority

    May 2, 2019

    …ole for government and the Office for Students. Introducing measures that truly recognise and reward universities for the progress they make in tackling this inequality in degree success through the likes of the Teaching Excellence Framework and independent league tables would demonstrate the value they place on diversity and inclusivity and help deliver the genuine step change we need – for the good of our students and society as a whole.   Kings…

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    mind the gap

  9. Why study at an Alliance university?

    August 13, 2020

    …heir course completion. In fact, the newest member of the Alliance, Anglia Ruskin University, rated as one of the top five universities in the country for graduate employment. What’s more – 86% of UA graduates said that their current activity is meaningful. Alliance universities also rated highly again in this year’s National Student Survey, with the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) ranked joint 2nd in England for overall student sa…

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  10. The DTA is Intersectoral- Part 1

    January 6, 2020

    …Intersectoral. In the series The DTA is Intersectoral, we showcase how our funded PhDs cut across different sectors, building bridges between academia and industry, and provides students with the skills and experience required by industry through work placements and research partnerships. In part one of the series hear from two of our researchers on their experience working with industry and the benefits this has brought to their academic careers….

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