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  1. Top tips for pitching your business idea

    …, so don’t be afraid to use them if they fit your presentation content. Websites such as Pexels offer free high-quality images that you can use to deliver the most powerful message possible. Also, try using headlines, not paragraphs. Your presentation should complement your speech, not the other way around. This means that people won’t need to read from your slides, which they will feel like they could have done in their own time. Lavinia: “I hone…

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    Lavinia Alexoiu – Winner of the Building Bright Ideas competition 2016
  2. Times Higher Education: Should tuition fees be linked to TEF performance? The case for and against

    …ill help them get a good job. The government is hoping that its teaching excellence framework will prompt universities to pay the same attention to the quality of their teaching as their research. Institutions that score highly will not only get reputational benefits but will also be allowed to raise their tuition fees, although not by more than inflation. She also adds, that the Department for Education has promised to keep improving the TEF in c…

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  3. The Open University

    …l needs, interests and aspirations, mix and match subjects, or combine one main subject with a few modules from other areas. It is easy to change direction if study interests change and many Open programme students bring credits from higher education studies completed elsewhere. Central to the OU’s success has been securing partnerships to ensure they can reach the widest possible range of learners. For example, it works closely with broadcast med…

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  4. Getting smart on innovation and growth

    …ln, Nottingham Trent University and the Open University. We found that the main way in which these and other universities support growth and innovation locally and regionally is by providing leadership, continuity and connectivity – made possible by their permanence as ‘anchor institutions’ in cities and regions. In spatial terms, the administrative and economic boundaries for local growth and innovation are particularly complex in Britain. Univer…

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  5. Adjusting the focus – gaining a clearer picture of university engagement with the arts and culture

    …It also gives practical advice on how to approach a university and how to maintain the relationship and create a successful partnership. A strong creative scene, with flourishing cultural spaces and businesses, make our towns and cities exciting and vibrant places to live. By working together we will ensure that arts and culture remain an essential part of our national conversation and lie at the centre of every community in the country. You can…

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  6. Beyond cliché

    …th work and family responsibilities — who would prefer another model. An accelerated degree would allow them to continue studying through the traditional university holidays and achieve their degree more quickly, while a modular degree would enable them to complete part of a course, get on with other aspects of their lives and then return to higher education when their circumstances allow. There are also employers — for example in the hospitality…

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  7. How thinking differently helped to win prestigious award

    …tackling the problem set out within the challenge. A month later I had an email from the Telegraph (who run the awards) saying that I had been shortlisted down to five within the aerospace category and inviting me to present my idea to Rolls Royce in Derby. I couldn’t believe that they had chosen my idea with four others out of so many entries to go and present to them in person. On the day down in Derby, I got the opportunity to look around some…

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  8. Creating innovative regions: The role of universities in local growth and productivity

    …rom Alliance institutions Our latest report aims to bust a myth – that the main contribution of universities to innovation is through the commercialisation of their research. Universities contribute so much more, particularly in their regions. Institutions like those in the Alliance are rooted in their regional economies. Many grew out of the needs of the industrial revolution and have been a stable presence ever since. They have longstanding netw…

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  9. Space: Pioneering one of the first University Enterprise Zones

    …g one of the first University Enterprise Zones (UEZ) in the country on its main Frenchay Campus in north Bristol. The West of England University Enterprise Zone is one of four to be supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The West of England UEZ will provide a business ‘hatchery’, incubation and grow on space for businesses specialising in robotics, biosciences, biomedicine and other high tech areas. The UEZ will assist hi…

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