…out and thrive. We take the settings and challenges which students will encounter in the workplace right into the classroom, through courses co-designed – and co-assessed – with employers, industry, social enterprise and the professions. The outcome is graduates who will be ready for a rapidly changing world, are able to thrive in their work and to make positive contributions as citizens. We are also the only mission group which is above benchmar…
…o 80%. And while 94% of white students had gained ‘successful’ graduate outcomes six months after leaving UK higher education in 2000, this figure was not matched by other ethnic groups with the Black African group having the lowest success rate. Female graduates continue to earn less than their male counterparts, even where they have graduated from the same university, in the same subject and with the same degree classification. Similarly state s…
…heir researching experiences, share ideas and best practice, and hopefully come away from the 3 days rejuvenated and turbo-boosted to continue and complete their research programmes.” University Alliance Chair and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton, Professor Debra Humphris, commented: “Though the online event was done spectacularly well in 2020 and 2021, we are delighted be able to host the first in-person Summer School since the pande…
…a Bake Off-inspired event for Comic Relief! More information on Oxford Brookes Business Schools’ research can be found at https://www.brookes.ac.uk/business/research/…
…nd technology-rich learning spaces. Since its completion in 2012, it has become a key component of the university’s marketing strategy proving that good design transcends conventional boundaries. Truly inspiring spaces have to work at many levels. For the individual students it is about them gaining confidence and developing character and then through developing relationships with their peers, adapting a more collaborative approach to work and beg…
…acing car. They can take part in two different classes (Class 1 or 2). The UK competition running this weekend from 14 – 17 July will host over 130 university entries from 30 countries. Managing a technical project under the pressure of a competition helps develop and demonstrate a valuable range of skills and resources among the students taking part, setting them on course for success in their future careers. Each round of the competition include…
…coming into higher education straight from my previous life as Director of Commercial & Communications at UK Sport. Our job was to enable 1100 outstanding Olympic and Paralympic National Lottery-funded athletes to realise their full potential. The talent, of course, was always there even when we languished at 36th on the medal table at Atlanta in 1996. It was only through building a high-performance system that we could find and nurture that talen…
…www.university-alliance.ac.uk Media contact: ahenry@university-alliance.ac.uk | 07833 236 629. The January 2012 Grant Letter to HEFCE confirmed that 10,000 modernisation fund student numbers will not be consolidated and an additional 5,000 student numbers have been removed to reduce the risk of overspend. Of the 20,000 Core and Margin numbers – the vast majority of which has come out of HE numbers – around 10,000 have been allocated to universitie…
…he general election, and note our shared recommendations with Universities UK (UUK) to reinstate maintenance grants for those who need them most and restore the unit of resource to the equivalent of 2015/16 levels as soon as practically possible. The Lords report called on the Government to “review how higher education is funded, setting long-term, sustainable funding and delivery models for the sector”. Although we acknowledge this is politically…
…This delivered significant economic impact: at least £53.2m in associated commercial revenues and 32 new jobs. The devices were used by the UN Environment Programme to map air pollution hotspots in the developing world and by World Athletics to monitor the impact of poor air quality on athletes’ health and performance. The devices have also been key to establishing air quality monitoring networks across cities, including three in China with a com…
