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  1. Improve student funding system to boost skills and promote UK competitiveness

    …ed to providing the high quality teaching that is critical to creating the world’s future leaders and problem solvers. We excel in preparing students for a career in industry and the professions – or to start their own company. We teach 20% of the UK’s undergraduates and 14% post-graduates. Nearly 40% of our students come from lower socio-economic backgrounds (NS-SEC 4-7). We focus on professional and practice-orientated courses – 25% of all under…

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  2. The hidden value of our university research base

    …mples like this across Alliance universities, as highlighted on their Real World Impact website. Hydrogen fuel cell research at Coventry University has led to the development of Microcab, the eco-friendly car of the future. Innovative product design techniques and technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan are leading to safer and less intrusive surgical procedures. New medical imaging technology developed at the University of Lincoln could revolutionis…

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  3. Virtual reality advances driving creative collaboration

    …has played a crucial role in the delivery of the Range Rover Evoque – internationally acclaimed as one of the most exciting design concepts of its age – the new Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, and the Jaguar F-Type sports car. Image: Visualisation facilities in Salford and Germany’s space science centre (DLR) are joined, allowing people in both to move around the Mars landscape together, discussing, for example, where the Mars Rover will go nex…

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  4. Using interactive technology to improve lives

    …s, and increase the potential for them to be part of the workforce again. Crucial to the development of their ‘serious games’ are user-sensitive design methods. These methods were also employed by the group in their research at Oak Field School and Sports College, a school for children with disabilities. This led to an ‘immeasurable’ impact on self-esteem, expectations and hope among learners and their families. They also engaged more than 1,500 p…

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  5. Event: University Alliance – Deloitte science and innovation showcase, 12 March 2015

    …e it is the envy of our global competitors, and continues to transform our world? Please join us as we showcase excellent UK research, and celebrate its transformative impact on our society and economy – building sustainability, improving healthcare, growing industries and shaping society. As well as the launch of a new report into the UK’s research ecosystem, the event will include a science fair. This will give you the opportunity to discover an…

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  6. Universities’ regional roots nourishing growth

    …ditional resource from the EU, business and foundations like the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Our courses are designed and delivered with business so that students are ready for real jobs on graduation. Unsurprisingly, we have very high rates of post-study employment. And, through extensive outreach, Alliance universities inspire students from a wide-range of backgrounds to study and succeed – which is essential if the…

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  7. Guardian: Quality of European research threatened by cuts

    …Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell was featured in a story in the Guardian Higher Education Network blog about proposed cuts to the European research budget which could risk British universities losing their position as world-leading institutions. She had called the proposals a ‘backwards step’ for UK and European researchers. You can read her full statement on this issue here….

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