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…Coverage of the Social Market Foundation report on Widening Participation, published in partnership with University Alliance and the Open University has appeared in the Independent. The report looks in detail at the Prime Minister’s ambition to double the proportion of disadvantaged students entering higher education by 2020. The report finds that the Government is on course to miss its targets. To read the report in full, follow this link….

…o that intakes reflect the whole community. A helpful first step would be for institutions to collaborate in shifting the focus away from just recruitment to genuine outreach.” You can read the full story here.  …

…e academic-vocational divide and the importance of ensuring geographical spread to allow maximum access to young people. Two Alliance universities will also share their experiences during the event. Dr Satya Shah, Principal Lecturer Programme Director – Faculty of Engineering and Science,University of Greenwich, will talk about how the university became the first London based institution to have a fully validated and endorsed Degree Apprenticeship…

…h £9,000 a year offered. In his recently published pamphlet for the Social Market Foundation, called Robbins Rebooted, Liam Byrne, Labour’s shadow minister for universities, science and skills, praises the “compelling” Leunig/IPPR proposal, as well as the University Alliance’s “important alternative”. Funding permitting, both ideas should be given “serious consideration” by an incoming minister in 2015, he says.” The extensive piece also went on t…

…nister, at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester this year. The Social Market Foundation event Robbins Rebooted: The Future of Higher Education will take place on Tuesday 23 September 2014, 17.30 – 19.00. The 1963 Robbins Report paved the way for the widespread expansion of Higher Education in the UK and set out the principle that “university places should be available to all who were qualified for them by ability and attainment”. Fifty years…

Read our full report We need to underpin a higher education sector that can drive the UK’s competitiveness in a global knowledge economy and can anticipate a new labour market shaped by rapid changes in technology, globalisation and increased economic uncertainty. This needs to be about more than just supporting school-leavers entering higher education as the current system does. It needs to be about developing and growing global talent – support…

…University collaboration and are delighted to represent the innovative and market-leading work of Alliance universities. In the UK’s global, knowledge-based economy, where 80% of new jobs are in high-skill areas and new and growth industries take a high-tech, high-skill and innovative approach, Alliance universities are the critical force in the sector driving the UK’s economic future alongside and in partnership with businesses. University Allian…

…West of England – welcomed the expansion, noting that the extra places would ensure the UK is able to meet the need for highly skilled graduates and thereby strengthen the economy. Read the article….

…e other ways” of relaxing student number controls for institutions with higher demand. Ideas were being discussed in the sector on continuing “the principle of ABB in opening up the market, but perhaps finding a more flexible and sophisticated way of doing it”. Read the full THE article or check out our full response….