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  1. University Alliance warns against sleepwalking towards a privatised university sector

    …graduates who will help deliver growth to the UK economy. Our universities maintain a revolving door with business to help ensure graduate employers get innovative and thoughtful, professionally accredited graduates with the right skills to help grow their businesses. Alliance universities: Aberystwyth University, Bournemouth University, University of Bradford, De Montfort University, University of Glamorgan, Glasgow Caledonian University, Univers…

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  2. OFFA report shows the need to banish confusing student bursaries

    …udents need is a single, simplified financial support system of grants and maintenance loans based on financial need – a crucial principle of our Graduate Contribution Scheme proposals.” Notes to editors A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills report detailing misconceptions around student support can be found at – http://www.dius.gov.uk/~/media/publications/B/BIS-RP-009 A previous report for OFFA warning that three quarters of students a…

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  3. Response to suggestions to the Times Higher Education on how research funding could change

    …we focus on quality, which means ensuring the success of all centres of excellence that are carrying out world-leading research, maintaining a business-focus, and delivering graduates and post-graduates for the new economy. Separate research undertaken for Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) further demonstrated that high quality research is in fact widely distributed across the UK higher education sector. The current system of selective fun…

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  4. Comment to the Times Higher Education following Vince Cable’s comments on development in education

    …rease this in the UK if we are to remain competitive. Furthermore, there remains no evidence of a reduction in quality, nor a mismatch of supply and demand of graduates into the economy. “Dr Cable’s commitments to stimulate growth and to put HE and FE on a ‘sustainable footing’ are both important but they don’t provide a clear vision for the role of universities in driving economic growth. Yes, the deficit needs to be tackled and difficult choices…

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  5. Efficiency, leadership and partnership: an approach that delivers shared economic priorities

    …d expertise; providing entrepreneurial leadership in areas such as regeneration and sustainability; and fostering social mobility and inclusion. The question is how to achieve these shared priorities and how to maintain the UK’s position as a high-quality, leading university sector in a climate that doesn’t allow for a significant increase in investment in higher education. Download the full report here….

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  6. University Alliance propose a Graduate Contribution Scheme that would allow more students to go to university

    …g in Hungary. It would simplify the current financial scheme of grants and maintenance loans into one system. Graduates would be able to secure funding for fees and living costs from a new Graduate Contribution Service that would replace the Student Loans Company. The funding for these would not come from Government but be backed by private investment through the sale of bonds. Repayments would be made on an income contingent basis following the c…

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  7. The Times: ‘Parties accused of dodging protests over tuition fees’

    …ties is calling for some or all of the £5 billion cost of tuition fees and maintenance loans to be funded by the private sector through sales of bonds, not by the taxpayer, as in Hungary. University Alliance, representing 22 universities including Oxford Brookes, Bournemouth, Plymouth and Nottingham Trent, said that companies should, in return, charge students higher interest on loans. Typical interest rates might rise to 4.5 or 5 per cent, from t…

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  8. Budget recognises universities are ‘vital for economic growth’

    …economic growth and wealth creation. At any point in time it is crucial to maintain public investment in higher education in order to drive the UK knowledge economy and, at a time of recession, even more so. In a tight fiscal environment the choices are stark but the importance of public investment in higher education for our future economy cannot be overstated – as our global competitors know only too well.” END Notes for Editors About University…

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  9. University Alliance welcomes HEFCE’s ‘sensible proposals’ but warns of consequences for those students who won’t get a place at university

    …economic growth and wealth creation. At any point in time it is crucial to maintain public investment in higher education in order to drive the UK knowledge economy and, at a time of recession, even more so. In a tight fiscal environment the choices are stark but the importance of public investment in higher education for our future economy cannot be overstated – as our global competitors know only too well.” END Notes for Editors (1) ‘Concentrati…

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  10. University Alliance warns of consequences of cuts for students who won’t get a place at university

    …economic growth and wealth creation. At any point in time it is crucial to maintain public investment in higher education in order to drive the UK knowledge economy and, at a time of recession, even more so. In a tight fiscal environment the choices are stark but the importance of public investment in higher education for our future economy cannot be overstated – as our global competitors know only too well.” END Notes for Editors (1) ‘Concentrati…

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