…and Research and Innovation funding. You can watch our full video round-up of the year below – and if you’re interested in what we have planned for the coming year(s), you can read our Strategy for 2022-25 here. Finally, we hope you all have restful festive break – here’s to an equally exciting 2023! …
…pular degree apprenticeships offer is supported to grow. To really turbo-charge degree apprenticeships, regulatory reform will also be necessary. We stand ready to support the Labour party as they continue to shape their skills policy.” …
…e programme were planned to reinforce community in research. (To know more read the University Alliance blog article here). As a lead-up to the event, all the participants were able to take part in two competitions to support them to share their research with wider audiences: summarising their thesis for Twitter audiences for Tweet Your Thesis and submitting an image representing their research for the DTA Exhibition of Research. The participants…
…ng prosperity across the UK. Technical and professional universities are already acting as catalysts for growth across the UK, and we believe they can do much, much more. This is a vision for how government can work with us to do that. The arrival of new ministers across government is an important opportunity for a new cross-government approach to harnessing the power of universities as engines for growth across communities, regions and the nation…
…t recent proposal on access to their publications for academics – for both reading and publishing – University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson pledges UA’s support: Our universities are fully committed to the approach being taken by the UK’s Elsevier Negotiation Team and support the recommendation to reject the most recent proposal from Elsevier on the basis it does not yet meet the two core objectives of the negotiations: to reduce costs to levels wh…
…EF as a coherent set of proposals, and delay implementation until they are ready to be rolled out together, preferably no earlier than the start of the 2022/23 academic year. Areas in which additional clarity is particularly needed include: Regulatory thresholds – the level at which investigations will be triggered; what proportion of an institution’s provision would need to be affected before that threshold is reached; and how these patterns will…
…ectives of the Comprehensive Spending Review, including including levelling-up across the UK; unleashing innovation and delivering the plan for growth, and ensuring strong and innovative public services here. Read more about the ways Alliance universities can help deliver on the key objectives of the Comprehensive Spending Review and the successful realisation of the manifesto commitments here. …
…the national effort to tackle the pandemic so far. Alliance universities already play a vital role powering the NHS, training a significant proportion of the workforce and supporting local provision. And if we see an increased need for health services in the coming weeks, Alliance universities stand ready to once again mobilise their communities and hand over facilities and provisions to the front line. Find out about our work on the frontline. St…
…ongratulations to all the deserving winners for their outstanding efforts. Reading all the nominations was an incredible privilege and showed the breadth and depth of work and commitment across the Alliance membership to deliver for both students and staff alike. “We received a large number of strong applications, and the tough choices we had to make to pick the winners reflects just how high the standards were. “More so now than ever before I bel…
…efforts against covid, Debra noted that UA members stand ready to play a crucial role in the social and economic recovery from covid, especially as higher technical education at UA universities will play a pivotal role in re-skilling and re-training efforts at a local, regional and national level. Debra raised with the committee that the ability for UA members to continue serving their communities and supporting any recovery efforts post-covid wi…
