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  1. DTA Summer School 2022 – Three days of Celebration, Collaboration and Community

    September 26, 2022

    …s and walked around the beautiful city of Brighton. Mary Oliver said, “Instructions for living a life is to pay attention, be astonished and talk about it”. With the beautiful weather, amazing sea front and lovely company to walk with, we got to do all of it in the same session. After the Research flash presentations and parallel online sessions for the second day, we all joined together for our quintessential DTA debate session led by Prof Amin A…

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    Surya Maruthupandian

  2. University Alliance launch ‘Driving Academic Diversity in their Media Voices’ campaign with live online panel event

    April 28, 2021

    Yesterday, we launched our campaign ‘Driving Academic Diversity in our Media Voices’, which aims to take practical action to support greater numbers of diverse academics to engage with the media. To mark the launch, we hosted an online event, where a panel of speakers addressed the importance of media diversity, and how the higher education sector can take collective action to allow for greater representation in the academic voices within the med…

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  3. #WeAreInternational blog: Fatima Muktar

    November 15, 2022

    …safe and welcoming environment to international students from all over the world…” Fatima hopes her research will serve as best practice guidance to local authorities, policy makers, and private waste management sectors across the country, and assist them in setting up an effective waste management system. “I am proud to be studying my PhD at USW. I chose USW because it is an incredibly diverse university and provides a safe and welcoming environm…

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    Fatima, a graduate student at the University of South Wales

  4. High tech facilities at Alliance universities are helping to power the NHS

    July 16, 2021

    …ins, Skills Simulation Centres, online Virtual Case Creators and wards, to world-class laboratories, medical equipment and, on the patient care side, pioneering technology that aids the NHS through partnership work. Find out more about Alliance universities’ world-leading high tech facilities below. https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/07/14/facilities-at-faculty-of-health-education-and-life-sciences-birmingham-city-university/ https://www.uniallian…

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  5. Harnessing the power of university-sponsored Multi Academy Trust partnerships

    August 18, 2021

    …ity represent different models of national and local MAT sponsorship and delivery, demonstrating the full range of support on offer across the sector. In Brighton, the community of practice has delivered strategic support and, through the sharing of services and expertise, helped the partners within the MAT overcome practical problems on school improvement, wellbeing, safeguarding, staff recruitment, professional development and raising aspiration…

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  6. Continuing the conversation between Emma Hardy MP and Professor Jane Harrington, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich 

    July 6, 2020

    …ed with this stark prospect universities will have a key role to play in delivering the reskilling agenda successfully. We will also need to increase part-time, flexible, and distance learning opportunities. To fulfil this role, we need to radically re-examine our education system, making it truly accessible for all learners and ensuring that it is providing students with the knowledge and skills they want and need. Second chances will be hugely i…

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  7. #WeAreInternational blog: Sadaf Akbari

    November 16, 2022

    …tients on transplant lists get the organs they need – it’s a major problem worldwide,” Sadaf said. “Engineering tissue to replace body parts damaged by accident or disease could go a long way to helping those who can’t access donor organs. The materials I’m working with are exciting because the electrical charge mimics what is observed in natural bones, which attracts minerals to aid repair.” Sadaf completed an undergraduate pharmacy degree at the…

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    Sadaf

  8. Obsessions with outcomes won’t deliver the flexible revolution

    February 15, 2021

    …ntions. The Government’s Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE) envisages a brave new world in which people space out their learning across a lifetime, dipping in and out of study, possibly one module at a time, transferring credits between further and higher education providers. University Alliance and others have been calling for this transformation for some time, and arguably we have never needed it more, with large numbers of people having to upskill…

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    Susanna Kalitowski

  9. Realising the benefits of the KEF through collaboration

    February 5, 2020

    …ons and across the sector. Where existing relationships are thriving and delivering true benefits to academia, industry, and the economy and society more broadly, we need to be sure that we work to capture the value on an ongoing basis to ensure success is recognised and best practice is shared. However, this value must be viewed holistically. The cultural benefits afford by the arts may be more difficult but are not impossible to measure. The bus…

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  10. AUGAR: Our CEO Vanessa Wilson Sets Out Her Initial Thoughts

    May 30, 2019

    …ued for a lifelong loan allowance, flexible modular credits, scrapping ELQ rules and interim qualifications for all students on a degree-level courses. And we back new investment in maintenance across FE and HE, given cost of living is one of the biggest issues for students. No one should ever be priced out of education. We’ll be saying much more over the coming days and weeks as we dig down into the detail, so I am resisting the temptation for kn…

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