…e Creative Education Manifesto, which covers our policy recommendations around restoring creative education and protecting the creative skills pipeline. #ArtIsEssential campaign coalition launch Creative Education Manifesto, calling on all political parties to protect the creative arts talent pipeline Posted on September 21, 2023 Jump to policy recommendations News Historic compact agreed to take back control of the UK’s creative education system…
…ata showing applications are down for medicine, nursing and midwifery courses, leaders from the higher education sector are calling for a new taskforce to effectively deliver NHS England’s Long-Term Workforce Plan. In a jointly-written letter sent to the Secretaries of State for Education and Health, a coalition of university mission groups and educators have called on the government to convene a new ministerial taskforce to ensure greater collabo…
…-government ministerial health education task force set up urgently to address these issues.” On reasons for the decline, Vanessa Wilson, CEO of University Alliance, said: “We know the cost-of-living crisis is putting students off applying for university. This may be behind the particularly steep drop in mature students applying for nursing courses. If maintenance support continues to fall behind inflation, more prospective students – particular…
…f higher education funding is not sustainable and will lead to growing issues in the coming years”. “There are political, social and economic imperatives to address this: most parents want their children to attend university, the earnings gap between the most and least privileged is significantly reduced for university graduates, and there is a growing high-level skills shortage. Long-term changes are needed, but we believe short-term, cost-neutra…
…anessa Wilson, CEO of University Alliance said: “Alliance universities are underpinning the country’s economic growth and skills needs for the future. However, there is a lack of strategic direction for higher education, and government policy is currently disjointed. That’s why we are calling for a coherent long-term strategy, in which the government clearly articulates what it believes post-18 education and training is for, and how the higher edu…
…conducted in tandem with industry, and this has benefitted significantly from Horizon funding and international partnerships fostered over many years. Our universities and their partners across Europe will be relieved today that this vital work can continue. Universities and research communities will now be able to kick-start new projects and programmes with our partners in Europe and beyond. This is a vital step in delivering on the Government’s…
…s report consistently high levels of satisfaction with their employment outcomes. 95% of graduates from UK universities are in work or further study just fifteen months after graduating, and 93% of those say their activity is meaningful. In the context of a growing high-level skills shortage, with a potential shortage of 2.6 million high-skilled workers by 2030, we need policy solutions which will help educate more people to degree-level and susta…
…in particular, to meet demand, and apprenticeships are not generally well understood. There is clearly strong demand from students and the government to grow the number and diversity of apprenticeships on offer. Just last week, apprenticeships were heralded as the solution to the NHS’s workforce challenges. To really scale up apprenticeships though, the bureaucracy involved in delivering them must be dramatically reduced, they must be properly fu…
…ls must be safeguarded at all costs. We know, for example, that patient outcomes are better and morbidity rates lower if nurses are educated to at least degree level. Higher and degree apprenticeships are delivered by universities in partnership with the NHS and they are a high-quality option for upskilling the existing workforce, as well as bringing in new talent. However, there are challenges in delivering them because they are costly and highly…
…presented on integrated care boards (ICBs). Since our members alone train 30% of nurses in England, it makes total sense for them have a seat at the table when it comes to workforce planning, to ensure the joined-up approach the review sets out works optimally.”…
