…significant and important role within the UK’s research ecosystem. They are leading the way in which universities collaborate – with businesses, local communities and colleagues with complementary expertise across the sector.”…
…velop new strategies, management styles and methods of production to boost competitiveness. Alongside this rich source of knowledge and new perspectives, Alliance universities offer a fertile environment to incubate and support entrepreneurial students, graduates and spin-out companies that are translating ideas and excellent research into new ventures. Research into turbocharger engines in collaboration with businesses is creating and securing lo…
…familiar to Alliance universities – they provide an environment to create communities which have become the lifeblood for a new breed of start-up. Within these universities an idea can quickly be tested and developed into a business. These entrepreneurial hubs are providing financial support, business knowhow and engendering creativity through a mix of disciplines, academia and business, along with a smattering of visiting international collabora…
…t week the Higher Education Commission published a report setting out 16 recommendations following their inquiry into future risks to the financial sustainability of the sector. The Commission aimed to identify what is needed for ‘a thriving, buzzing centre of knowledge for England and the rest of the UK; building and expanding, producing valuable outputs, as well as receiving public investments’. Our higher education sector plays a vital role in…
…ed his Commission’s latest State of the Nation report, that the UK risks becoming a ‘permanently’ divided society unless ‘radical new’ approaches are taken by the next government. In the second annual report, the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged politicians of all parties to be much more ambitious about how to ‘ensure that there is a social recovery alongside the economy recovery’. Mr Milburn…
…hree key priorities for politicians and policy advisers. Priority 1 – open competition We operate a highly competitive system in the UK, which has been proven to maximise the impact of limited public investment. Public funding should continue to follow excellence where it exists to drive innovation and secure the future success of our universities. To achieve economic prosperity, research and innovation activities need sufficient and sustained fun…
…nd fully to the needs of students, employers and society as a whole. We welcome this report for exploring this issue and putting it on the table as a matter of serious public debate.” Professor Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management , Department of Management, King’s College London, also part of the expert advisory group, said: “The International Centre for University Policy Research (ICUPR) at King’s College London w…
…towards parity of information from different providers. Otherwise we risk compromising quality assurance and enhancement, as well as effective student choice. Students in the great majority of alternative providers do not have access to external complaints moderation. This is not fair and requires legislative attention. Again, on the subject of rights and protections for students, the sector as a whole needs to continue to plan for institutional…
…re access is more evenly distributed there continues to be disparity of outcomes between socio-economic groups of students. For example, 18 months after graduation, graduates from families where the parents work in partly skilled occupations are 30% more likely than others to be in a non-graduate job; and for graduates with parents who are unemployed this risk increases to 80%. And while 94% of white students had gained ‘successful’ graduate outco…
…ng or requiring supply constraints to be put in place in this part of the system. We recommend introducing a lifetime loan allocation to support re-training and re-skilling in line with international best practice. We recommend that this is an income-contingent loan that is repaid after graduation and that low earners are protected but that the cohort as a whole repay in full. In other words, this is a non-subsidised loan system….