…ntinue to deliver world-leading research with and for industry, the public and third sectors and wider society.” -Ends- Full details of the funding can be found on the HECFE website – http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2015/Name,103785,en.html More information about University Alliance can be found on our website – www.unialliance.ac.uk Media contact: Sam Jones, 0776 767 3982…
…le entering the job market it is still the case that a degree is by far the best route for most individuals. Universities will work hard to help with the transition into employment for all students.” Notes to editor Press contact: Andrew Henry, Andrew@www.unialliance.ac.uk | 0207 839 2757. To speak to Libby Hackett, Chief Executive of University Alliance, please contact Andrew@www.unialliance.ac.uk. University Alliance is a non-partisan, non-polit…
…f our many students.” ENDS Press contacts Sam Jones, sam@www.unialliance.ac.uk or 07767673982 and Andrew Henry, andrew@www.unialliance.ac.uk or 07833 236629 University Alliance is a non-partisan, non-political organisation working to promote, safeguard and sustain the public benefit delivered by universities together with our members. Alliance members are Bournemouth University, University of Bradford, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Coventry Uni…
…the ‘Research and Publications’ section of our website – www.unialliance.ac.uk. University Alliance represents 23 major, dynamic, business-like universities at the heart of the sector that deliver world-leading research with impact and are actively business focussed. Through evidence-based policy and research, the Alliance aims to improve policymaking in higher education to the benefit of the UK economy and society. Alliance universities educate 2…
…ion Policy Institute) report is available from their website at www.hepi.ac.uk. University Alliance represents 22 major, dynamic, business-like universities at the heart of the sector that deliver world-leading research with impact and are actively business-focussed. Alliance universities educate 26% of all UK students and achieve some of the highest graduate-level employment rates. These universities offer a research informed, academic learning e…
…changed the understanding and delivery of inclusive arts practices in the UK and overseas. At the heart of Alice Fox’s approach is an ‘aesthetic of exchange’: the collaborative development of competence, knowledge and skills. Early developments of inclusive arts practice Her early research was into methods of co-creation with disengaged and marginalised communities, paying particular attention to collaboration between artists with and without lea…
…across the Alliance universities, key stakeholders and associated networks. 6 different panels of external judges including senior leaders from UCAS, QAA, Innovate UK and Research England; and journalists from HEPI and University Business, worked hard to whittle the long list of nominations down into the shortlist across the 6 categories. Many of the judges commented on how difficult it was to select a shortlist from a group of such amazing nomin…
…that can cause death by respiratory collapse, following Covid 19 infection. These compounds can be used within a drug therapy to prevent our immune system from disabling the body’s lung function during a cytokine storm; one of the contributing factors in Covid-19 deaths. This treatment could potentially also help protect cancer and organ transplant patients. Oxford Brookes University develop vaccine Research has been conducted through their spino…
…raight 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 talent, and once we learned to win,…
…my role as a designer was simply to take a lateral approach to the problem. The company needed to apply a date stamp to the flooring – in the old design, this was simply a sticker stuck to the surface of the mat, which could easily be removed. Our design innovation was to put the date stamp under the mat with a clear window to view the date. This meant the only way to change the date was to remove the mat from the floor. Sales leapt because the l…
