Combining community services with clinical assessment experience Every year University of Huddersfield staff and students work in partnership with external clinicians and sector partners to provide an innovative undergraduate clinical skills event, and at the same time promote leg health to the local community. Members of the public are invited, via local press advertisements, to attend a leg health assessment in the specialist Podiatry Clinic at…
…through university, learning to successfully juggle work, study and other commitments. We help them capitalise upon and build their resilience to help them achieve the career destinations of their choice. How can we better understand and support this activity? That’s where the Teaching Excellence Alliance comes in – the pilot will build on the best work we are doing as individual institutions to drive forward holistic practice of excellence for a…
…Drawing on evidence from overseas, the report looks at the success of the Compte Personnel de Formation programme in France which helps those already in the workforce fit study around their commitments and Finland’s Noste scheme, which successfully addressed skills gaps in the adult population in response to the retirement of the post-war generation. Its recommendations include: Creating a centralised UCAS-style system for lifelong learning cours…
…Entrepreneur event held by Salford Business School here, and read how the competition has helped previous winners Vinejuice. Who can participate? The competition is open to current students and alumni of Alliance universities, in all subject areas – entrants do not need to be studying a business-specific field but should have a good understanding of what is needed to launch their idea. Entrants are encouraged to view their business idea as the ‘r…
…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…
…iables were changing at the same time. The most significant of these was a complete restructuring of ‘KU Welcome Week’, now offering a coordinated student transition across the University and incorporating faculty induction, enrolment, welcome events and the Freshers’ Fayre. Into the mix must also be factored the ongoing efforts and enthusiasm of the staff and student engagement teams. But when the question was posed, we had already drawn up a lis…
…etween sessions. The summit took place in the university’s Engineering and Computing Building. This Nao social robot is part of a project by Coventry PhD research student Ariel Ruiz-Garcia from the university’s School of Computing, Electronics and Maths. Panel discussion during the morning plenary Questions from delegates who were drawn from both our universities and key sector organisations Wonkhe Director Mark Leach (…
…g plenary speech given by Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell at our Annual Summit 2016 – Leading the way in our cities and regions. * Chair, Education Select Committee and Co-Chair, Sub Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy …
