…hanced malaria programme performance is often placed on the technical challenges, while human and organizational factors are often overlooked. Research conducted by Peter Case, Professor of Organization Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, has focused on improving programme management and service delivery at the operational level of malaria healthcare. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Navy Malaria Re…
…17 and has been led by the University of South Wales (USW) to help small businesses across Wales develop cutting-edge technologies and boost productivity. Recieving over £8.9m of funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Welsh Government, and Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO), the project supports SME’s to design and test new mobile and emerging technologies to create products and services for commercial success. Ba…
…rush to ensure I had the right technology and software, not to mention the essential textbooks, notebooks, and toilet paper. However, even though preparations smoothed the transition to remote working, “I quickly realised that working from home also meant living at work .” As the weeks and months passed by, days started to blur into one another with no distinction between Sundays, Tuesdays or Fridays. I lost track of the date, and time felt like i…
…hire’s economic recovery and how they can better meet the needs of local businesses. Gillian Keegan, Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, was invited to kick-start the discussion. In her opening statement, she said that the quality and breadth of apprenticeships has “never been higher”, adding that the government was working towards creating an easier, simpler and more accessible apprenticeship system for small and medium-sized enterprises. Th…
…lenges we’ve faced along the way By far the biggest challenge has been addressing digital exclusion (often referred to as digital ‘poverty’), where a student is without access to one or more of the core items of digital infrastructure, including appropriate hardware, reliable access to the internet, and particularly, appropriate study space. Alliance universities have invested significant resources to provide a digitally inclusive environment for…
…develop and test a novel approach to modelling sprays and produce free, open software to permit easy access to the model. The team will work on specialised solutions for inhalers and fuel sprays, looking at the complex composition of liquids and the specifics of the flows. Alliance universities are home to some of the most talented, dedicated, and innovative researchers in the country. Researchers like Dr Rybdylova are grounding research and inno…
…ies UK, Guild HE, the Russell Group and Million Plus – to explore the challenges currently facing the higher education sector as it continues to deal with the effects of Covid-19. The crisis talks took place daily in the aftermath of the A-levels crisis. At the time of our interview, the taskforce is meeting three times a week – and will soon do so just weekly. Being asked by the Department for Education (DfE) to take a seat at the table was, Vane…
…always going to be a daunting prospect. But one heartening aspect was witnessing the role of universities and students’ unions in supporting student voter registration and turnout. It might not have been the youthquake some were predicting, but voter apathy was certainly not a feature of this election. The result has brought political stability, but has also put some huge, and in some cases existential, policy and constitutional issues on the tab…
…ways should not be viewed as a binary decision, as creative education teaches essential transferable skills, applicable far beyond a career in the arts. In fact, Linkedin recently undertook a study of hundreds of thousands of job postings to find out what companies are looking for most. According to their results, the number one soft skill companies want in 2019 is creativity. With the growing importance of AI and innovative technology, a creative…
…ve’s fifth!). International fame followed and Tim spent much time on the business and celebrity speaker circuit for the next two years. After retiring as a competitor he went on and made the transition from athlete to elite coach and lived for several years in Switzerland as head of their national squad. Tim returned a year ago to the UK where and completed an Executive MBA at Saïd Business School in Oxford and specialised for his dissertation on…
