…e NCUB blog here. Come to our launch event for Job Ready: universities, employers and students creating success Tuesday 8 July, 12.30pm – 2.30pm Churchill Room, House of Commons, London With short speeches from the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Professor Julie Lydon, CBI and British Airways…
…economic uncertainty we need a higher education sector that can drive the UK’s competitiveness and can anticipate a new type of labour market. We need a far more flexible, robust and affordable student loan system that allows people to be acquiring high-level skills for the changing global economy. The current student loan system is far too limiting by focusing mainly on young undergraduates studying their first degree. We want to see a lifetime…
…ucation. HELP UK has been developed with extensive economic modelling, student and parent surveys and workshops across Alliance universities, and comparisons of funding systems across the globe….
…creating success Tuesday 8 July, 12.30pm – 2.30pm Churchill Room, House of Commons, London With short speeches from the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, CBI and British Airways We would be delighted if you could join us as we showcase and discuss excellence in universities and businesses working together for the benefit of students and graduates in the UK. The event will see the launch of a new study, Job Ready, which will demonstrate the positive impact…
…ished a report by Libby Hackett, the chief executive of University Alliance, comparing the UK system with that of Australia. While focused on what the UK can learn from Australia, the report suggests where Australia could learn from the UK. “Funding on the basis of retention also provides more options for managing rising rates of non-completion or drop out, which is something that might be more relevant to the Australian higher education sector in…
…s (“Closing the doors to foreign students”, editorial, April 8). Worryingly, though, we are losing international students to competing nations, such as Canada and Australia, due to the UK’s restrictive policy on post-study work visas. Alliance universities (which deliver 50 per cent of all science, technology, engineering and maths courses in the UK) have seen as much as a 50 per cent reduction in overseas students studying Stem over the past two…
…and entice you into doing a placement… but I was wrong. It is actually true, I know that I have become very different from the timid and inexperienced person I was on my first day, and I can easily recognise that I have grown into a mature and independent person over the last nine months. Without my placement year I would not have experienced the opportunities I have had and I certainly wouldn’t be half as confident as I am in my skill set and fut…
…rofessor Roger King about regulation in a changing and uncertain HE system), UCAS, HESA – even the sector’s role in organisations like HEFCE and the OIA – is increasingly in question. Westwood warns, “we may be sleepwalking into a position where we give up sector ownership and find ourselves with a more external model of quality and inspection – something worryingly like an Ofsted for HE.” “Yet just because these aren’t always easy to explain does…
…nemouth University, University of Bradford, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Coventry University, De Montfort University, Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Greenwich, University of Hertfordshire, University of Huddersfield, Kingston University, University of Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Northumbria University, Nottingham Trent University, Oxford Brookes University, Plymouth University, U…
…anding graduate employment rates and over a quarter of all students in the UK, they are having a big impact on the economy at home and abroad. “At University Alliance we recognise the huge opportunities there are if we build constructive international partnerships. We recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Australian Technology Network of universities to develop stronger links between our member universities and to explore internat…
