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  1. Helping disadvantaged students: Support for refugees and asylum seekers to benefit from higher education

    …ns. However many of these individuals see the UK education system as intimidating and inaccessible, and as a result, the university has endeavoured to build relationships that are not simply one-way, to prevent further isolation. For example, the asylum seekers and refugees they’ve been working with were looking for opportunities to learn and practice their English skills while needing encouragement and inclusion and often support in the form of h…

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  2. Being innovative about the future of innovation funding

    …iority for our group of universities – and we have a wealth of experience, dating back from the industrial revolution when most of us were founded, to share. We have a higher proportion of industry-funded research than other UK universities. Rapidly-growing, innovative companies – especially smaller ones – rely on Alliance universities’ knowledge and networks to expand and succeed. At a University Alliance workshop on innovation funding earlier th…

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  3. Tackling chemical and plastic pollutants in the world’s oceans

    …Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science to provide evidence of them dating back to the 1960s and trace their rate of increase across the following decades. In an influential 2004 paper in Science, the team coined the term ‘microplastics’ to describe these particles. They later revealed how a range of organisms could ingest microplastics and in some contexts these particles could transfer contaminants from sea water to marine life. This rese…

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  4. Lifting student number controls – will it affect the quality of learning and teaching?

    …protection. Collaborative models of provision, such as franchising and validating, need to be looked at when re-designing the regulatory system. These models can have great benefits for students, in terms of being able to access a degree close to home, for example. However, there are risks too. There is a possibility that some newer alternative providers will seek to grow rapidly through franchise arrangements with HEFCE-funded institutions. It is…

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