…lliance Chair and Coventry University Vice-Chancellor gave oral evidence to the BEIS Committee Industrial strategy inquiry on 8 November 2016 – transcript online here. University Alliance’s written submission to the inquiry is online here….
…00 are also to be awarded to three South West-based artists, artist-led groups or other independent art workers each year. New positive action policies will also be brought in for subsidised studio provision and artist development opportunities, designed to remove barriers to access for underrepresented groups. Finally, new fellowship and mentoring opportunities for artists, curators and young people are to be developed with Creative Youth Network…
…job-ready graduates.” The list of Alliance universities winners and runner-ups is below. You can find the full list of winners and runner ups here: Business partnership Winner: Nottingham Trent University Runner up: Coventry University Employability Winner: Coventry University Entrepreneurship Winner: Cardiff Metropolitan University International projects Runner up: University of the West of England Online and distance learning Runner up: Coventry…
…attributes, the social capital, those things that people pick up in a wide variety of contexts, that employers say are the abilities they are really looking for and having difficulty finding. Extra-curricular activities Despite the fact that research supports my own experience of learning – that young people tend to develop broader types of skills through being involved in activities outside of the classroom – students from poorer backgrounds are…
…, has been awarded an OBE for his commitment to furthering education and human rights. A barrister specialising in human rights, he worked in over 35 countries during his diplomatic career with the British Council. He joined the university in 2010 where he has transformed the performance and practice of its department of law and criminology, widening opportunity for students, 40% of whom come from low income households. This year, the department w…
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University Alliance features in a story by BBC News Online about the 2014 World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education magazine – and their new “formula” for top universities. University Alliance responded to say that using the rankings as a “roadmap” risked missing “the breadth of routes to delivering world-class research and graduates”. “The obsession with this idea of a ‘world-class university’ is a distraction from the tried…
…p with industry delivering expertise, facilities and training potential to upskill the vaccine manufacturing workforce. Sixty-million doses of the Novavax vaccine are set to be manufactured in Stockton-on-Tees with the National Horizons Centre to play a major role developing the skills capacity within the region to meet this demand. The National Horizons Centre, a £22.3 million national centre of excellence for the bioscience industries already…
…f power—and this isn’t something anyone should give up lightly. Then, Blackman’s proposal of quotas for the proportion of student places that could be subject to academic selection would present various practical difficulties in responding to other elements of student choice, such as course, style of teaching and distance from home. Finally, the comprehensive vision is in tension with the modern need for specialisation in higher education. Many de…
…to the development of several evidence-based face-to-face and digital self-management courses to help support people living with these conditions cope with anxiety and depression. One of its projects is the Hope Programme, which supports users through a six-week course, offered face-to-face and online. The social enterprise spin-out, Hope 4 The Community (H4C), was established by researchers and a number of service users to diversify and spread th…
