…The long awaited government document announces a shake up of the UK higher education system. Our response to the HE Green Paper also appeared in University Business. Read the full story here. The HE Green Paper: Fulfilling our potential: Teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice was published on Friday 6 November. You can read our response to the proposals here….
Read University Alliance’s submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review – ‘Skills for new growth’. We have also summarised the key priorities for skills for new growth for the Government to bear in mind ahead of the CSR. They are: Numbers. More graduates are needed to keep pace with growing demand for higher skills. The cap on student numbers must remain off. Access. Student Opportunity Funding enables universities to attract and support disad…
…Two proposals have been put forward to avert the “polarisation” of the sector as a result of the government’s student number plans in a letter from University Alliance Chair, Professor Janet Beer, to the Secretary of State, Vince Cable, and Universities Minister, David Willetts. The full article by Simon Baker can be read here. Read the full letter with our proposals here….
…g speech recognition software listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver) We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand. AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability. Compliance status This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliance…
…ies traditionally considered to be teaching-focused. Despite their often shoestring budgets, these units have shaken up the established order, reversing the trend of concentrating funding in an ever smaller number of top institutions. As a result of the wider spread of resources, the research-intensive universities have seen their share of quality-related (QR) research funding fall by about 4 per cent. But beyond the fuming of the elite and the ba…
…ter. Subsequently, my findings were confirmed by other groups all over the world, and in a range of other cancers too, and that work has formed the basis for everything that I have done scientifically since. Having continued with a couple of post doc positions, I joined Oxford Brookes University as a lecturer in 1995. I teach undergraduates (mostly about health and disease, pathology and cancer), oversee professional development for researchers ac…
…er education ‘cold spot’. ARU Peterborough is a partnership between Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), and Peterborough City Council (PCC) and this investment is hugely important for the region: the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) area has just 24% of 18-24 year-olds in full-time education, compared to 33% nationally. Phase 1 of the construction, which is backed by…
…stitute provides technologies and solutions, industry-ready graduates, and world-leading research. AME’s journey Following a six-million-pound investment, AME has expanded with state-of-the-art equipment, boasting an additional 2000 metres of space featuring new teaching and research facilities, as well as digital manufacturing and engineering, manufacturing metrology, and functional materials laboratories. Leading manufacturing skills development…
…e two days, I met and spoke to students from fourteen countries across the world, each bringing a different perspective to the PhD process and their research, which they were able to share with one another. I was also struck by the interdisciplinary nature of the event. As a central precept of the MSCA and the DTA, encouraging researchers to look beyond their disciplines was a hugely important element of the Spring School. Doctoral researchers att…
…hose from low-participation neighbourhoods and regions, from an ethnic minority background, white working class boys and those whose parents worked in routine or manual occupations. BTEC qualifications, which combine knowledge and understanding with application in real-world, occupational settings, can provide a strong foundation for success in higher education and the workplace. Around a third of students at Alliance universities enter with at le…
