Grameen bank project set to help Glasgow’s poorer communities. A UK university has teamed up with Nobel prizewinner Mohammad Yunus, of microbanking fame. Gillies, a community health specialist, understood that providing economic opportunities for women – the principle behind Yunus’s renowned Grameen bank – was key to improving health and social outcomes for the most disadvantaged in society. Gillies is now principal of Glasgow Caledonian Universi…
…new jobs are in high-skill areas and new and growth industries take a high-tech, high-skill and innovative approach, universities are playing a critical role in driving the UK’s economic future. As well as being generators of economic growth and wealth creation, universities are helping to shape the new economy through their partnerships with new industries and use of new technologies. Our global competitors, including the emerging economies, are…
…environments with close links to the professions, new industries and a deep-rooted commitment to access through flexible provision. Alliance universities educate 26% of all UK students and have high graduate employment rates, offering a research-informed learning environment and equipping graduates for the 21st century. Members of University Alliance Aberystwyth University, Bournemouth University, University of Bradford, De Montfort University, Un…
…environments with close links to the professions, new industries and a deep-rooted commitment to access through flexible provision. Alliance universities educate 26% of all UK students and have high graduate employment rates, offering a research-engaged learning environment and equipping graduates for the 21st century. 3. Members of the University Alliance: Aberystwyth University, Bournemouth University, University of Bradford, De Montfort Univers…
…environments with close links to the professions, new industries and a deep-rooted commitment to access through flexible provision. Alliance universities educate 26% of all UK students and have high graduate employment rates, offering a research-engaged learning environment and equipping graduates for the 21st century. 3. Members of the University Alliance: Aberystwyth University, Bournemouth University, University of Bradford, De Montfort Univers…
…Russell Group, the 94 Group or Million Plus. Professor Craven is about to complete his three year term as chair. Professor Janet Beer said: “I am honoured to be entrusted by my colleagues with this significant position. Professor Craven’s leadership over the last three years has been instrumental in establishing the University Alliance as an effective new national voice for a group of important institutions. Our members are incredibly grateful to…
…hese degrees. Yet such programmes thrive in a number of University Alliance institutions – particularly in French, German and Spanish., and often combined with the study of contemporary European politics or culture rather than literature. In addition, University Alliance members have a strong commitment to institution-wide language programmes that make a great variety of languages available to students from other disciplines even if they have litt…
…tional master’s students bringing dependents with them is already putting international students off studying at our universities. The MAC is right to highlight the damage this, and the freeze on home student tuition fees, is doing to UK higher education. The impact of a shrinking UK higher education sector would be a shrinking skills pipeline, a shrinking NHS workforce and shrinking local economies. I hope the government listens to the very clear…
…at Alliance universities leans predominantly towards being practical and co-designed with students and employers. The results from this new iteration of the TEF, which includes an independent student submission for the first time, is testament to the quality of our members’ innovative teaching. It’s important that anyone looking at the TEF results today understands what the new rankings mean. Every institution that is given a TEF ranking meets the…
Pro-Vice Chancellor of UWE Bristol, Marc Griffiths, explores 8 areas which will be influencing the landscape for universities over the next twelve to eighteen months, in his thought piece : “A Changing Wind from all Directions”. Through the report, Griffiths reports on factors both good and bad for the sector, and on opportunities for Higher Education to realign itself with societal challenges and a congested regulatory environment. The factors i…
