…son, and then after 2 weeks the buddy was changed. This has helped enhance understanding and support and keep connectivity across large team of 40 people. Team Entrepreneurship, UWE Bristol– for developing a pioneering degree programme underpinned by experiential, team-based, self-managed entrepreneurial learning. Team Entrepreneurship (TE) is a pioneering degree programme underpinned by experiential, team-based, self-managed entrepreneurial…
…in year one the student is recruited and placed directly into the company undertaking a commercially focused project. This provides the business with new capacity and skills for its existing innovation activities, but also provides the student with significant experience of a commercial environment. Businesses can then develop the student to meet the ethos and standards of the business from day one. Upon completion of year one the student returns…
…s the clinical treatment of around 9,000 NHS patients per year, treated by undergraduates under supervision from clinicians. It also includes a broad-ranging community engagement programme that seeks to address some of the major health inequalities in Devon and Cornwall. This is the first time that a clinical education entity has been housed in a social enterprise in the UK, and has enabled the University to more closely align its community outrea…
…r at communicating our strengths, and in a language that everyone else can understand. While this was an evening where it was OK for the sector to be talking to itself, and in its own language, it was striking how obvious it was that compere David Walliams (whose sole gag of flirting with whichever man he shared the stage with got a little tiring) rarely knew what he was being told to say by the slightly-over-the-top-US-Presidential-style teleprom…
…ctural and Investment Funds. “But since the UK is a “net contributor” to these funds, the Government could set up its own regional growth fund after Brexit which “could easily exceed” the amount of investment that universities traditionally received from the EU,” Camilla Turner, Education Editor, writes in the article. It quoted from our written evidence to the Select Committee – “that the ERDF and ESF hand out around £100 million each year in Bri…
…ersity’s Avery Hill Campus. Responding to HEPI’s report on the educational underachievement of young men, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “This is an important piece of work – both men and women should be able to benefit from a university education. There is growing evidence that young men are not fulfilling their potential and this needs to be addressed. “The authors are right to focus on the need for universities to a…
…the professions – or to start their own company. We teach 20% of the UK’s undergraduates and 14% post-graduates. Nearly 40% of our students come from lower socio-economic backgrounds (NS-SEC 4-7). We focus on professional and practice-orientated courses – 25% of all undergraduates on courses for the professions are at our universities. We are crucial for the supply of nurses, teachers and engineers. Most of our courses are co-designed and co-deli…
…mber universities. Delivering communications and engagement to help people understand how our member universities work and what makes them special. UA in facts and stats 16 Of the UK’s leading professional and technical universities Gold standard teaching Alliance universities are more likely to be rated gold for teaching excellence than universities in any other group according to the government’s Teaching Excellence Framework. Top for student sa…
…range of different higher education learning environments should be better understood by Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) providers, as well as the diversity of high-quality technical qualifications available beyond level 3. The progression of students with applied general qualifications (AGQs), particularly BTEC Nationals, to higher education has a significant impact on widening participation. It is important that we co…
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