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  1. Our response to Universities Minister Jo Johnson’s speech on the value of higher education

    …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…

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  2. Happy 10th Anniversary for Access Agreements!

    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…

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  3. Excellence at Coventry recognised

    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…

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  4. Alliance graduate start-ups grow at over twice the rate of rest of HE sector

    …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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  5. Shaping Society

    …excluded from learning, and through study of historical fascism revealing deeper insights into what motivates people to carry out terrorist atrocities today. Alliance research leads to lasting benefits for the whole of society….

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  6. University Alliance responds to IPPR report on postgraduate student loans proposal

    …Reforming student loans to broaden access to postgraduate study published today. “We agree that we need a smarter loan design to sort out the post-graduate and part-time funding vacuum and deliver a more sustainable loan system that will enable us to develop and grow global talent – the key to the future success of the UK. “Half of postgraduate students cannot access loans, there has been a major decline in part-time study and the public subsidy…

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  7. Guardian Higher Education Network: Student loans debt: should universities share some of the risk? – poll

    University Alliance has commented today on the Guardian Higher Education Network Blog about creating a sustainable future for Higher Education. The blog has launched a poll following comments by David Willetts, the former universities and science minister, that universities should be given the opportunity to buy their own student loans. In response, Professor Steve West, chair of University Alliance, has outlined our concerns with David Willetts’…

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  8. University Alliance calls for a re-think on university funding

    University Alliance today responds to HEPI’s report on the impact on demand of the Government’s reforms of higher education. Libby Hackett, Chief Executive of University Alliance, said: “This most recent report from HEPI confirms the fact that demand for full-time higher education continues to grow, in line with growing demand from the economy(1). Graduate employment rates remain high and the number of graduate jobs continues to grow despite the

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  9. UA Vice-Chancellor to join BIS Board

    We respond to today’s (30 July) announcement that Professor Wendy Purcell, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Plymouth University, has been appointed as the higher education representative on the Board at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Professor Steve West, Chair of University Alliance and Vice-Chancellor of the UWE, said: “We are delighted that Wendy has been appointed to represent higher education stakeholders at BIS. “…

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