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…essions. We are the only group of universities above benchmark for both recruiting and retaining students with widening participation backgrounds, and have stressed the continued importance of Student Opportunity Funding and the need for TEF measures to be properly benchmarked and contextualised. “While the main focus of this report is teaching excellence, Ministers must ensure the large-scale changes envisaged in the way research and innovation a…

…uction of maintenance loans for part-time students, and a loosening of the rules on tuition fee loan eligibility for students wishing to do a second degree. However the government also confirmed it will go ahead with freezing the repayment threshold for student loans, and said that student opportunity funding for disadvantaged and disabled learners would be reduced. Maddalaine welcomed the moves on part-time and postgraduate students in the THE ar…

…e at a cost. If this is not recognised in the forthcoming spending review, today’s commitment is just empty words,” she said. Ms Ansell also welcomed the commitment to retain the dual-support system for research. “This makes our system dynamic and promotes innovation,” she said, adding that “while we recognise the value of reducing the cost of participating in the research excellence framework, any simplification must not introduce concentration b…

…omy with most new jobs in high skill areas. The Association of Graduate Recruiters’ (AGR) predicted an 11.9% rise in vacancies this year. If we want businesses to innovate and grow, we need more, not fewer, highly skilled graduates. “Alliance universities are responding by offering practice-based, industry-focused courses which give our graduates the skills employers want.” Notes for editors The CIPD has released a report today – Over-qualificatio…

…reats and opportunities of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) earlier today. Not only were there platform speeches from senior people from HEFCE, BIS, Coventry University and the University of South Wales, there was even an interview with a real live student (often notable by their absence from the list of speakers at such events), which was conducted by Maddalaine Ansell, the University Alliance’s newish Chief Executive. Sadly, the half-day…

…nly funding awarded to universities based on the genuine added costs of recruiting and retaining widening participation students. It has proven to be crucial not just in improving social mobility and ensuring cities and regions have access to wider, more diverse talent for growth, but also in ensuring the Treasury maximises the return on its investment in higher education. “We hope the Chancellor bears this in mind ahead of the emergency Budget ne…

The Office for Fair Access (OFFA) are celebrating their 10th anniversary today of the first access agreements being approved by OFFA. Maddalaine Ansell, Chief Executive of University Alliance, said: “Ten years on since their introduction, English universities and colleges are on course to meet over 80 per cent of the targets set within their 2013/2014 Access Agreements. “This initiative has ensured people from non-traditional backgrounds can acce…

The Guardian has announced today that Coventry University has reached “the highest position ever achieved by a former polytechnic in the Guardian league table of universities”. The Guardian goes on to say that in reaching number 15 in the table, it is higher than “many research-intensive universities, including Birmingham, Edinburgh, York, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff, Nottingham and Newcastle”. Maddalaine Ansell, Chief Executive of University Allianc…

…014 HE Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) Survey released by HESA today, Maddalaine Ansell, Chief Executive of University Alliance, said: “The latest HE-BCI results show graduate start-ups are continuing to grow within our group of innovative and entrepreneurial institutions. More than 1,200 businesses were launched by Alliance graduates over the year, growing at more than twice the rate of the rest of the sector. “This success comes beca…

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