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  1. Teesside academic’s voluntary work with charity tackling food poverty

    October 23, 2020

    …p a base in one of the most deprived wards in England. Little Sprouts also runs a café and kitchen in Stockton providing meals for people on low incomes and offering support to those dealing with mental health issues, addictions and other social problems. They also work from a community centre in Yarm collecting in surplus food from supermarkets and businesses to distribute to families and other voluntary, community and social enterprise organisat…

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  2. The DTA on Screen

    June 10, 2019

    …me the Doctoral Training Alliance. The Doctoral Training Alliance has been running since 2015, funding students to conduct ground-breaking research in the fields of Applied Biosciences for Health, Energy and Social Policy. The DTA offers more than just financial support though, it also provides the academic and emotional support from supervisors and peers across all 20 programme members. As well as this, its focus is on training and preparing its…

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  3. Inclusive Assessment project progression report

    …make a separate application for approval, they were able to draw upon the wording of the Teesside application. Each of the seven partners was given a share of the University Alliance funding to help to recruit one or more students to work as research projects on the project, helping with data collection and analysis and the creation of the project outputs. The first phase of this project focused on assessment practices during the pandemic. Each i…

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  4. Sile Sibanda – University of Derby

    …focused on and you’re like ‘OK, I need to get there’. And then when that crumbles you have to be a little bit creative and think: ‘If I can’t do that, what else can I do?’ “If you really want to go to uni and you haven’t got the place you wanted, Clearing is the best option. If it wasn’t for Clearing, I don’t think I’d have come to uni.” Finding the words Sile’s course would put her in situations that encouraged her to think carefully about commu…

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  5. Oxford Brookes: Tegan’s Story

    …uated in 2018. Her apprenticeship journey has inspired Tegan to spread the word about the advantages of taking an apprenticeship, as it balances the practical and academic aspects of study. The integrated nature of the apprenticeship has helped her acquire new skills in the workplace. Tegan is most proud of the fact that she has come from a position of being mainly housebound, to ultimately sustaining herself, whilst independently working and stud…

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  6. University Alliance responds to announcement on legal migration restrictions

    December 4, 2023

    …ch by Public First has shown that only 9% of the general public think that international students and researchers should be discouraged from coming to the UK. International student fees now fund university research activity and teaching for UK students, which make a combined loss of £6 billion. Our local economies need skills and innovation to grow, and in many constituencies, universities are the biggest source of both. The question about interna…

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  7. Higher Education Funding

    …ernational students at Alliance universities Posted on March 28, 2024 More news Insights Explainer: international students at Alliance universities Posted on March 28, 2024 In conversation with business leaders: here’s what SMEs like mine need from the Chancellor Posted on March 13, 2023 By Deborah O’Donovan Universities should be partners in shaping the levelling up agenda Posted on January 7, 2022 By Vanessa Wilson More insights Publication…

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  8. Graduate recruitment survey is good news for graduates and the economy

    January 25, 2011

    …r of the average English graduate start-up company. As well as building on today’s good news about graduate employability we will continue to work with Government to ensure it creates the right environment for new start-ups.” / end. Notes for editors Examples of a different approach to graduate employability: Nottingham Trent University is one of the top ten universities in England and Wales for graduate employment with nearly 95% of its students…

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  9. Commuting students – enhancing a different student experience

    September 27, 2019

    …student lives with other students. Considering both the risk of travel disruption, and the risk of social disengagement from other students can, they argue, identify those students most at risk. However, talk of ‘at risk students’ can also suggest a deficit approach, in which the middle class, on-campus model is held up as the gold standard, and where we aim to mitigate, as far as possible, the disadvantages of commuting. But that isn’t necessari…

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  10. University Alliance statement on Damian Hinds’ speech on L4/5

    December 6, 2018

    …tunity regardless of background, ability and experience. We want to see a truly holistic system that provides learners with a range of high quality pathways. We hope that the Secretary of State will take forward the plans proposed in today’s speech in this spirit. We are pleased that T levels will now receive UCAS points. BTEC and other Applied General Qualifications already carry a UCAS points value and learners who have taken these qualification…

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