…ght us even closer to our students. DTA3 are the first DTA cohort whose recruitment the DTA Team has been actively involved in. This put us in close contact with fellows from application and interview, to the regular Zoom sessions that 2020 has brought. We’ve provided nurturing video calls for students to present their work, exchanged tips on managing the misery of isolation, and shared intel on where to source bread flour and yeast during lockdow…
…cases remotely. The pilot is funded by the Community Justice Fund and the National Lottery and will run until April 2021. Diana Kirsch, Associate Dean for Enterprise, Law School, University of Hertfordshire, said: “We are delighted to be working with Citizens’ Advice Stevenage on this project. The project will provide a much-needed service as there is huge unmet demand for welfare benefits advice since legal aid was cut for this area of work. The…
…gression. OfS is laying the foundations here for a tougher regime to give true equality of opportunity for disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in England. “There is hard work ahead next year to get the new system 100% right – particularly for institutions like University Alliance members targeting first generation intakes through their technical and professional courses. “The collapse in part-time and mature student populations is a massive…
…unities and tackling inequality, and promoting prosperity both locally and nationally. The starring roles in a new promotional film from University Alliance were taken by two of our member universities – Kingston and Coventry. Students and staff from both universities featured in the production, which was carried out by Summit Films. A number of innovative facilities were used during the filming. At Kingston University, these included the Clinical…
…Liddell is a third year USW student studying the BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance degree. Sarah’s host company is Atradius in Cardiff. Network75 students receive a minimum tax-free bursary of £5,000 per annum, which increases by £500 each academic year. Approximately 55% of current students on the scheme receive additional payments from their host companies. They also get a holiday allowance and time off for revision, and have their course tuitio…
…g on widening participation). Origins and rationale Capgemini currently recruits around 120 graduates annually. Plans to expand graduate recruitment were hindered by the inability to find graduates – particularly in software engineering – with the skills and knowledge to immediately work in the industry. Building on strong links at senior level – and due to the large proportion of their graduate recruits already coming from the university – Capgem…
…r report made some recommendations to help get us back on track. Access to finance, knowledge and skills are commonly identified as key barriers to starting up. We believe there are some simple actions Government can take to help more people start-up and grow their business. Build stronger links between Government financing for enterprise and universities, so that they are able to inform the design of schemes, such as StartUp Loans, to ensure that…
…longer afford to fund universities and provide student loans? What if ‘disruptive technologies’ significantly change the skills needed from the existing labour force? What if only a few institutions are receiving public funding and others privatise? What would happen if all barriers to entry into the higher education market were removed and the US, China or others were to set up universities in the UK? What if the 3-year undergraduate degree was…
…to recognise the importance of happiness in the lives of people around the world. The International Day of Happiness can be a useful time for us to reflect on what makes us happy, and how we can make positive changes in our lives that are likely to enhance our happiness. For instance, while it is a truism that money doesn’t buy happiness, it has been shown that money can buy experiences (like holidays, music concerts, nights out), which in turn ca…
…ate – have benefited from Salford’s research, in particular from the increased awareness that fish mislabelling actually exists. As more people want to know about their food, consumers are placing greater importance on being able to trace where it has come from and what it actually is. National UK and Spanish media covered the issue, while the BBC series Fake Britain, Newsround and Channel 4 documentaries Dispatches and Food Unwrapped commissioned…
