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  1. Research and Innovation at Alliance Universities

    …e Covid pandemic, including the development of faster and reliable tests; drug treatments to reduce the severity of Covid symptoms on the most vulnerable patients; the creation of new vaccines as well as supporting the manufacture and rollout of existing vaccines. On the week of International Women’s Day, the publication also identifies some of the steps Alliance universities are taking to embed equality, diversity and inclusion across their resea…

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  2. #PressforProgress on periods in Nepal

    …en entrepreneurs, who are trying to provide both education and better menstrual products. Many of these organisations distribute or produce menstrual hygienic kits, containing reusable pads made from waterproof, antibacterial and antifungal material that can be cleaned with soap. These are usually provided as part of a kit, including pads, soap, underwear and a carry bag. When washed and dried correctly pads can be used for up to three years. Scie…

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  3. Capturing Chernobyl’s growing wildlife

    …e work that we have been undertaking within the project and it has been a truly amazing journey. The opportunity to work within Chernobyl and study the wildlife there is a privilege, the scientific advances and collaborations that it has led to are fantastic and to have all of this recognised with the award of THE Research Project of the Year is truly amazing. Now is the time of year to reflect back on the last 12 months and what a year it has bee…

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  4. Closing the Gap: unlocking opportunity through higher education

    …every student whilst not diverting government funding or requiring supply constraints to be put in place in this part of the system. We recommend introducing a lifetime loan allocation to support re-training and re-skilling in line with international best practice. We recommend that this is an income-contingent loan that is repaid after graduation and that low earners are protected but that the cohort as a whole repay in full. In other words, this…

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  5. New report challenges outdated perspective on ‘good’ universities

    …fetime loan allocation to support re-training and re-skilling in line with international best practice. We recommend that this is an income-contingent loan that is repaid after graduation and that low earners are protected but that the cohort as a whole repay in full. In other words, this is a non-subsidised loan system. We need to ensure loan access for all students in higher education to remove the barrier of upfront costs. This is particularly…

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  6. Mobilising Bristol’s students to create a greener future

    …es. One of its modules is about the Student Capital experience, which provides guidelines for others who want to set up a similar framework to engage students in tackling sustainability issues. Read more information about Green Capital: Student Capital. As well as the International Green Gown Awards joint win for Student Engagement, UWE Bristol won an unprecedented second International Green Gown Award for Continuous Improvement, which recognises…

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  7. UA’s response to the Migration Advisory Committee’s review of the Graduate Route Visa

    …leased the MAC has recognised that. Unfortunately, the government’s ban on international master’s students bringing dependents with them is already putting international students off studying at our universities. The MAC is right to highlight the damage this, and the freeze on home student tuition fees, is doing to UK higher education. The impact of a shrinking UK higher education sector would be a shrinking skills pipeline, a shrinking NHS workfo…

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  8. University Alliance reacts to Universities Minister’s attack today on “low-value” degree courses

    …ed: “We’re thoroughly disappointed in the Universities Minister’s comments today, suggesting fewer people should be going to university based on unsubstantiated claims over the value of degree courses. This attack on “low value” higher education is founded on highly limited data and a narrow and over simplistic interpretation of “value”, and it does not reflect students’ motivations for pursuing higher education. “True social mobility is achieved…

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  9. UK universities are not obstacles the government needs to overcome

    …e levelling-up prospectus, despite having much of the expertise and infrastructure already in place to support interventions. Indeed, universities narrowly avoided significant cuts in research spending of up to £1 billion a year amid the confusion over how the cost of Horizon Europe participation will be met, and they still face a very uncertain financial future, with tuition fee cuts and a swathe of potential measures to reduce access to higher e…

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  10. Unconscious bias in higher education: A talk for International Women’s Day

    …nce for mitigating unconscious bias in teaching and learning. As a general rule, there are three key steps: convince yourself unconscious bias exists and you are affected by it; be a ‘bias interrupter’ – if you suspect yourself or others of bias, do something about it; devise policies and processes which limit the effect of bias. Examples include setting clear criteria before making an evaluation or assessment (and sticking to them!); asking for s…

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