…support the growth of the Midlands Engine. For example, Birmingham City University partnered with Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP and Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce to drive business growth amongst small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across Greater Birmingham. …
…social enterprises, the highest ever achieved amongst universities in the UK. Since 2014, they have helped create more than 50 social enterprises spanning multiple industries and sectors including child protection, food and leisure, volunteering, cleaning services and many, many more. CU Social Enterprise (CUSE) offers businesses with economic and social benefit the opportunity to work with the University whilst also helping to develop the entrep…
…ent is shared by our college partners. Teesside University has invested over £270m in its estate in recent years and work has also started on the recently announced £300m campus masterplan which provides a blueprint for how the University campus will develop over the next decade. Upcoming projects include a £12.5m Student Life Building, significant transformation of student accommodation, the £7.5m first phase of developing a new home for Teesside…
…th, Energy and Social Policy, and receives co-funding through the European Commission. As well as financial support, DTA researchers benefit from an inclusive and collaborative support community, enhanced employer co-designed training programme and access to expertise and facilities from across the network; helping equip our students with key skills for future employment. UWE Bristol Early Career Researcher (ECR) awards UWE, Bristol has invested…
…an amount could be issued as a grant, either on a blanket or targeted basis. 2. To ensure universities can target support where it is most needed, including through hardship funds, and ensure the ongoing costs associated with the pandemic do not impact on the learning experience, the government should significantly increase student premium funding. These are high-level proposals, and we are keen to be part of a collaborative effort with government…
…skills; meeting the needs of industry, public services and the professions. “We welcome the opportunity through these reforms to build a more integrated tertiary education system that further incentivises HE and FE to work in partnership to deliver flexibility, choice and clear career pathways for all learners. “We recognise this is an interim response to the Post-18 review, and whilst some decisions have been rightly delayed, we maintain serious…
…mission and we were pleased to share our support for them with the Minister. We welcome the qualifications as a vital progression route and our members are committed to them within our institutions. Degree Apprenticeships can be the future The group also discussed how we can work together with the Minister to strengthen opportunities available through higher-level apprenticeships. As pioneers in higher technical education, Alliance universities us…
…In short: Professor Jensen has now received £10,000 funding from a private UK based company, Viaro Energy, to make this support available to frontline healthcare workers during and after the Covid-19 pandemic by creating free web-based access to expressive writing materials in English, Italian and Arabic . The project will also contribute to the growing body of evidence around the impact of the crisis on healthcare workers, and will be used to bet…
…the success of a published work which uses artificial intelligence to help. She said: “Working with committed students and training officers during these challenging times has been a rewarding experience. I know how important it is to support trainees to learn the knowledge and skills that is required for them to work safely and efficiently in the laboratories. “The COVID-19 pandemic presented so many challenges for training with increases in wor…
…ved participants from 48 countries, with the vast majority coming from the UK and the US. Published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, the research found that 40% of those displaying symptoms of COVID-19 simultaneously experience a worsening of their tinnitus. In short: Although the study focused on people with pre-existing tinnitus, a small number of participants also reported that their condition was initially triggered by developing COV…
