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  1. Talent: DigitalCity Fellowships helps fledgling entrepreneurs

    …unit in Teesside University’s Phoenix Building. Their first app, Wurdy, a word guessing game, was featured by Apple in 147 countries and reached the number one spot in two countries. Other work has swiftly followed and they have collaborated with several other studios on games apps. Their next project includes a soon-to-be-released mobile football game for young children. Bob said: “The DigitalCity Fellowship was a great help to us in getting set…

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  2. Research Fortnight: Remember them? Education isn’t just for young people. It’s time to look again at lifetime learning accounts.

    …industry in Teesside and Port Talbot give an anxious urgency to these dry words… “…The issue is important and so, despite the difficulties, the search for a solution continues. The government recognises this, shown by its announcement that it will be reviewing the gaps in support for lifetime learning, including for flexible and part-time study. This review, expected to report before the summer recess, will be too quick and dirty to develop major…

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  3. Christmas card competition 2015

    …ity Alliance team will judge the competition and decide on the winner. The runners up will be posted on our website along with the winning image. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The winning image will become property of University Alliance. Covers will be judged on their design as well as how well they fit the brief. The winner will be published on our website. The winner will also be contacted directly to…

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  4. Royal Society pairing scheme opens for 2015

    …r Nottingham South. Carole spent two days shadowing Lilian getting, in her words, ‘a fast-paced introduction to parliamentary life which highlighted a number of opportunities for us as scientists to impact on decision making’. This included attending a debate on fracking, Health Questions in the House of Commons, a meeting for the launch of a new housing benefit deal for young people, the opening of the newly rejuvenated train station in Nottingha…

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  5. Using interactive technology to improve lives

    …s, and increase the potential for them to be part of the workforce again. Crucial to the development of their ‘serious games’ are user-sensitive design methods. These methods were also employed by the group in their research at Oak Field School and Sports College, a school for children with disabilities. This led to an ‘immeasurable’ impact on self-esteem, expectations and hope among learners and their families. They also engaged more than 1,500 p…

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  6. A comparison of HE funding in England and Australia: what can we learn?

    …maximum, alongside published bands of ‘core funding’ by subject. In other words, every student knows both what their contribution and the Government’s contribution is towards the cost of their course. These funding levels are understood in the public mind-set, engendering a sense of social contract based on the shared contribution of costs. There are obvious lessons for us to learn around both language and transparency in a system where our Gover…

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  7. Congratulations to the winner of our Christmas card design competition!

    …to attach the star on it. He would have to grow to achieve his goal”   The runners up were: (click on name to see their design) Sean Ford, BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Northumbria University Rachel Lee, freelance Fabric Artist and Illustrator/ BA(hons) in Business Studies, Open University Claire Spears, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University Ruth Hitchens, BA (Hons) Fine art, Cardiff Metropolitan University   We were really pleased with…

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  8. THE: Free market on fees threatens rough ride in 'perfect storm'

    …ancellor of Oxford Brookes University and chair of the University Alliance group, said language was a problem, but it should not prevent reform of the system. The University Alliance has proposed a graduate contribution scheme linked to earnings, but crucially wants to keep the link between individual universities and what their graduates pay. “This is not just a rebranding exercise. The current system needs reform, but certainly the emotive natur…

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