What is the Teaching Excellence Alliance?
…arity: Stretch and challenge current practice by involving different disciplines. For more information please visit www.unialliance.ac.uk/tea or email tea@www.unialliance.ac.uk…
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High tech facilities at Alliance universities are helping to power the NHS
Read more of: High tech facilities at Alliance universities are helping to power the NHS…ities’ world-leading high tech facilities below. https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/07/14/facilities-at-faculty-of-health-education-and-life-sciences-birmingham-city-university/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/26/leeds-becketts-centre-for-applied-obesity/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/26/university-of-south-wales-clinical-simulation-centre/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/30/partnership-will-explore-use-of-robots-to-improve-pat…
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Why degree apprenticeships deserve your attention
Read more of: Why degree apprenticeships deserve your attention…rate for more employers, prior to any (careful and gradual) implementation. 3. The role of professional and technical universities Our recent publication Let’s Get Technical sets out five policy goals for the next government that will ensure our universities are able to continue helping address some of the biggest challenges facing the country. The pursuit of higher and degree apprenticeships tells a wider story about the role and value of profes…
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Obsessions with outcomes won’t deliver the flexible revolution
Read more of: Obsessions with outcomes won’t deliver the flexible revolution…Academy. Alliance universities are justifiably proud of their students’ outcomes. However, across the sector, these outcomes are unevenly distributed across different groups of students, subjects, courses, and employment sectors. All three indicators are closely correlated to entry tariff, to socioeconomic and family background, and to geography. Students stop studying for a range of reasons, many of which are wholly unconnected to their experienc…
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The 2019 University Alliance Summit
Read more of: The 2019 University Alliance Summit…the event and looks forward to the future. This was an exciting week for me. Since becoming CEO of University Alliance in March, I have travelled the length and breadth of the UK, meeting our members and exploring their world-class facilities. The summit this week, however, was my first opportunity to bring them all together in one space. It was fantastic to witness this concentration of the drive and enthusiasm of staff across our membership and…
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How supermarkets can engage consumers to think more about household food waste
Read more of: How supermarkets can engage consumers to think more about household food waste…It is estimated household food waste accounts for approximately 70% of the UK’s 9.5 million tonnes of waste, and every wasted scrap of food contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Growing, processing, packaging and transporting food – these all contribute detrimentally to the planet and to climate erosion. Clearly, the consumer can play a major part in addressing food waste. However, one difficulty is many people are simply unaware they even wast…
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Alliance universities are fulfilling a civic role within their communities
Read more of: Alliance universities are fulfilling a civic role within their communities…ur members are Powering their Communities below: https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/30/social-enterprise-spinouts-at-coventry-university/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/30/community-legal-clinic-at-anglia-ruskin-university/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/30/accounting-for-community-engaging-students-aces-scheme-at-oxford-brookes/ https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/03/29/university-of-greenwich-support-local-mutual-aid-group-during…
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Let’s get strategic
Read more of: Let’s get strategic…ss the Power of Professional and Technical Universities to Deliver for the UK. We know we will not be alone in making this ask of political parties in the run-up to the general election, and note our shared recommendations with Universities UK (UUK) to reinstate maintenance grants for those who need them most and restore the unit of resource to the equivalent of 2015/16 levels as soon as practically possible. The Lords report called on the Governm…
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Vaccines, R&D and the Budget
Read more of: Vaccines, R&D and the Budget…nt’s ‘Levelling Up Fund’ is being extended further across the whole of the UK. This expansion is welcome, but we are no clearer on the detail on how this Fund will be administered. The Budget this week must urgently bring forward greater clarity on the Fund’s prospectus. As pointed out by Chris Husbands, Natalie Day and Richard Brabner in their recent HEPI blog, universities must be explicitly captured within the Fund’s guidance. With many univers…
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Winner of the Integrity Award at Alliance Awards 2020 recounts her award-winning work
Read more of: Winner of the Integrity Award at Alliance Awards 2020 recounts her award-winning work…ntegrity Award in recognition of her commitment to supporting the doctoral community. Colleagues praised Lorraine for providing not just information for doctoral students but also reassurance and warmth. She was instrumental in engendering trust and confidence in the Doctoral College and her work during the pandemic has generated messages of praise from students and staff alike. Lorraine said, “I was thrilled and honoured to win the Integrity Awar…
