…e, prevents disease progression and potentially the development of further complications, and allows timely specialist referral to be made in those cases requiring prompt review. The leg health assessment days facilitate undergraduate training, the public health agenda and general health promotion and have resulted in positive feedback from staff, patients, carers and students. All the people attending the clinic reported that they felt they had b…
…ur students. Do podiatrists need to know about patients as well as theory before they become independent practitioners? We’ll set up a podiatry clinic as part of our course. This mode of teaching and learning means our graduates have the confidence to go into work, ready to tackle the unfamiliar and solve the problems of tomorrow – both those we know about and those we have not yet conceived. That’s not just confidence, that’s attitude and we help…
…Martin Upton and Jonquil Lowe, gave evidence at the House of Lords Select Committee on Financial Exclusion. Following funding from the Money Advice Service (MAS) and the Chartered Accountants Livery Company (CALC), we are tailoring Managing My Money for specific audiences, for example, the more financially vulnerable in the UK and 16-18 year olds. Based on this success, we have replicated the Centre of Excellence model to create the Centre for Vo…
…lifelonglearning. 2. Figures on decline in the number of part-time students – HESA UK Domiciled First Year Student Numbers, 2008/09 to 2014/15…
…to students from Alliance universities. What is Innovating Future Business 2017? The competition is part of the Innovating Future Business festival at the University of Salford, taking place on Wednesday 10 May 2017 at MediaCityUK. Budding entrepreneurs will have five minutes to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win cash prizes from a prize pool of £5,000. Entrants must answer questions from the investors, university…
…ngland’s universities to study and work and will consider what protections should be given to those who are already here. Similarly, it will look at the ramifications for Britons who want to work and study at higher education institutions in the EU. The Committee also aims to examine the effect of Brexit on the reputation of England’s universities and ask how they can remain competitive. The future of the Erasmus+ student exchange programme will a…
…ties support and encourage arts and cultural industries within their local communities. Universities have become increasingly more involved in these activities, becoming champions for the arts across the UK, attracting investment and leveraging funding. Universities do this because they understand and value the benefits a thriving cultural scene brings with it. They understand the improvement in literacy when young people are exposed to drama, the…
…e role as Press and PR Officer with the Daphne Jackson Trust. As I started communicating with the returners who had completed the Trust’s Fellowships, I began to realise what an incredible and under-utilised resource they were. Remarkable, inspiring, determined and resourceful are just a few adjectives that describe these women, and more recently men, who have been helped by the Trust. My supposedly predictable role proved anything but and I am de…
…s at the related KU Welcome Week events (how many attending each event; ‘useful’/’not useful’ voting; qualitative feedback via ‘post-it’ notes). We had more positive feedback, including appreciation of hearing from ‘their’ university before they arrived. The two events given by Nick Hornby were packed – and asking questioners to state their subject before speaking revealed the breadth of the audience. Afterwards the author signed copies of his boo…
…es the difference across the country. Neil Carmichael MP, Education Select Committee and Co-Chair, Sub Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy, gave the keynote speech. You can also read speeches by Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell and Chair Professor Steve West. We also unveiled our new Making the Difference video at the Summit which is now featured prominently on our homepage. Below are some of the pictures from the day – more can be fou…
