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  1. University research is answering today’s challenges

    …of the world’s biggest challenges, our universities play a critical role. Today we launch Problem Solved: university research answering today’s challenges, which shows why research and innovation play such an important part in the economy at home and abroad and why universities are uniquely placed to rise to some of the challenges set by governments around the world. The ‘grand challenges’ set a thematic direction for much of our research. They a…

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  2. UA responds to NAO’s report on HE market

    …ation market, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “Today’s report makes some important points about the development of the HE market: it is right to highlight the need for more comprehensive independent advice and guidance for students and the worrying fall in the number of mature and part time learners. University Alliance has pushed for better support for mature students and for a comprehensive system of careers advice fo…

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  3. University Alliance responds to CIPD report on graduates in the labour market

    …y skilled graduates. “Alliance universities are responding by offering practice-based, industry-focused courses which give our graduates the skills employers want.” Notes for editors The CIPD has released a report today – Over-qualification and skills mismatch in the graduate labour market – which states the number of people graduating from university is much lower than the amount of high-skilled jobs available….

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  4. Privacy notice

    …ontroller. The right to object to any direct marketing (for example, email marketing or phone calls) by us, and to require us to stop such marketing. The right to object to the processing of your information if we are relying on a “legitimate interest” for the processing or where the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest. The right to object to any automated decision-making about you which produce…

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  5. Chief Executive UA Summit speech: Leading the way in our cities and regions

    …companies in the automotive supply chain. And at Portsmouth University, a Reader in Structural Biology is supported by post-graduate and undergraduate students to work out how enzymes made by gribbles can make the biofuels industry more efficient. Our research not only serves existing industries – it creates new ones. For example, the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and Bristol University’s robotics laboratory has created a vibran…

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  6. Closing speech at UA Summit 2015: Building on our Strengths

    …at more we can do if we do it together. How bold do we want to be? We’ve already started to think about this today. What is clear to me is that students, businesses, government and society are all demanding something new, something different from higher education. It’s essential that we listen to them and decide how we best respond. As Julie’s speech this morning illustrated, the higher education sector is changing rapidly. This is a highly compet…

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  7. Turner Prize win for UCLAN professor

    …r addressing “pertinent questions of personal and political identity”. The news that the prestigious international award would go to Professor Lubaina Himid MBE, based in Preston, was announced live on the BBC on Tuesday 5 December. Her work has been on display at the Ferens Art Gallery, in Hull, since September as part of the UK City of Culture celebrations. Turner exhibit curator with art critics The award cements an exciting year for Lubaina wh…

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  8. Let’s give the creative industries the respect they deserve

    …. Over the same period, the UK as a whole increased by 11.5 per cent. This news, although welcome, comes as no surprise to students and faculty at Alliance Universities, who have long been championing the importance of harnessing the UK’s creativity to promote economic growth. For over 150 years they have been leading in creative industries education and research and are at the forefront of innovation and growth in this area. The University of Sal…

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  9. Welsh semi-wild ponies and maintaining biodiversity and agricultural sustainability

    …iversity (Garcia, 2013). This is because ponies eat invasive grasses and shrubs sheep avoid, including Molinia caerulea (purple moor-grass) and Ulex spp. (gorse) (Fraser et al., 2019). They also break open the turf allowing access for wild seeds and insects which, in turn, support more birds, thereby supporting greater diversity of a range of taxa. Mixed grazing as an extensive, agroecological approach to agricultural practice can deliver on other…

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  10. Covid-19 research and enterprise

    …raining potential to upskill the vaccine manufacturing workforce.   Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)– New test can detect COVID-19 in 20 minutes ARU’s Professor Stephen Bustin, with colleagues ar Chelmsford hospital, have developed a robust, reliable assay, or test, for COVID-19 which returns results in less than 20 minutes. The test, called Cov2-ID, detects three viral targets, making it more reliable than other tests that look at just one, and was…

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