…d all the support she received from RGU before and after she enrolled. Why did you apply through Clearing? After receiving my university offers in early 2020, I decided to make a change and confirmed an offer to study away from Aberdeen since I had grown up and spent my entire life here. Spending the next several months at home during lockdown gave me time to think about my next steps at university, and caused me to question my decision to move aw…
…Education at the Russell Group said: “The Long Term Workforce Plan is rightly ambitious in its approach to boosting the vital pipeline of healthcare staff to the NHS. Universities will be central to the success, delivering more medical school training and degree apprenticeships, but this expansion will require careful planning and co-ordination. We fully support a new taskforce to holistically assess progress, barriers and solutions, and to best s…
…Debra as our new Chair in September, after a long tenure which included guiding us through the COVID years. Next year: Let’s Get Technical In September, we published our policy priorities in ‘Let’s Get Technical’. In the new year, as a general election looms, we’ll be focussing in on a few of these and really trying to ensure that our policy solutions are heard. We’ll be particularly focussed on student maintenance support, and ensuring the next g…
…research system, developing future nurse leaders of research and ensuring digitally enabled nurse-led research. Reflecting on our approach to the doctorate, there is much congruence in what we are trying to achieve. Ensuring that research is aligned with public need, all of our doctoral students enter the programme with a plan for their research which is derived from their own sphere of practice. For example, Buyanga (2023) undertook a study to e…
…ny of the adaptations made in response to lockdown restrictions were actually helping to close awarding gaps and improve continuation rates – even for the most disadvantaged students. UA universities wanted to figure out why, and how they could keep these adaptations going. This project was a continuation of the QAA Collaborative Enhancement project, released last year, in which nine attributes for enabling more inclusive assessment styles were id…
…elationship with the student. When you think about it, technology is really only a way of storing, moving, manipulating and presenting data to support the processes on which the university runs admissions, enrolments, timetabling, payroll, budgeting, asset and estate management. When it is clear that data is the key then it becomes equally clear that running servers and big IT estates is not central to a university’s purpose, in fact it is an…
…y deserve for their hard work. This cohort of students has had a particularly difficult time, and they should be immensely proud of all they have achieved. For those that didn’t get the places they wanted, it is not the end of your university journey this year. Though clearing can feel like a stressful option, university admissions teams are on hand to make the process as easy as possible – and it can be a wonderful way of finding new avenues for…
…have chosen yet again to berate one of the few UK sectors which is genuinely world leading. If this continues, there is a real risk of exacerbating shortages of teachers, doctors, engineers and countless other professions at the same time as drastically reducing the UK’s ability to produce world-class research and innovation. The results will be disastrous for the UK economy.” On foundation years: “Today’s announcement is disappointingly regressi…
…h and Social Care convene a joint ministerial working group tasked with finding immediate and long-term solutions to meet NHS training and skills needs. The two Departments need to work more closely going forward on the issue of the healthcare workforce. Placement tariffs for nursing students need reforming. Currently placement providers such as hospitals, GP surgeries and care homes receive £5,000 per nursing student they offer placements to, com…
…reer in nursing can be. “Nursing can be challenging, but it is also a rewarding and absolutely essential role, and our universities want to work with government to continue to attract people to careers in the NHS. “With a shortage of 47,000 nurses in the UK, the challenge in training enough nursing staff does not just lie in recruitment. Last year only 52% of people who applied to study nursing across the UK were accepted onto courses. There is a…