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  1. BCC Business and Education Summit 2017: How can universities and business work together to drive economic growth?

    …Alliance universities provide companies with the knowledge from around the world that can transform their businesses, talent to drive innovation from within, routes to finance to allow businesses to take risks, and new physical spaces where they can grow. “We are natural leaders in local growth initiatives, able to operate across administrative and geographic borders to provide businesses and investors with the critical continuity and connectivity…

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  2. Students revving up for Silverstone

    …make the transition in 2018. The optimisation tool, created on an Excel spreadsheet linked to Visual Basic code, will aid future students by calculating the required dimensions for drivetrain components based on space constraints. Of seeing the UWE car competing at Silverstone last year, Tom said: “We all had a moment of pride when it hit the floor – the few days before the race were very rushed so I was very happy to see it sitting on its wheels…

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  3. Supporting thriving communities: Alliance universities case studies

    …University: Award-winning social enterprise programme tackles some of the world’s most pressing issues Helping students, staff and recent graduates who want to set up and run a social enterprise…   Cultural enrichment University of Huddersfield: Contemporary music festival attracts new audiences and engages local community Providing a wide range of cultural opportunities for local residents…   Cultural enrichment The Open University: The Social P…

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  4. University Alliance messages to Government 2015-2020

    …tor and secure Britain’s ability to compete in a dynamic and fast changing world.   Skills 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 disadvantaged students. Maintaining the fund will boost both social mobility and the supply of skills. Teaching excellence. The new Teaching Excellen…

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  5. International students benefit our universities and the UK

    …ses (particularly STEM taught masters) depend on international students to run. International graduates are also great for the wider UK economy. We will be following the work of the Prime Minister’s new immigration task group closely. Bringing net migration down to the ‘tens of thousands’ will have an impact on the numbers of international students – affecting the attractiveness of our universities and reducing the skills available to the UK econo…

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  6. Virtual reality advances driving creative collaboration

    …n harnessing the benefits of virtual reality and high-end visualisation. Already it has played a crucial role in the delivery of the Range Rover Evoque – internationally acclaimed as one of the most exciting design concepts of its age – the new Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, and the Jaguar F-Type sports car. Image: Visualisation facilities in Salford and Germany’s space science centre (DLR) are joined, allowing people in both to move around th…

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  7. Using interactive technology to improve lives

    …abilities has, in turn, had a major influence on the way practitioners conduct their own vocational training – particularly the nearly 10,000 professionals and 1,500 trainees on the GOAL project. They have also spread the word to a further 7,500 professionals and trainees on another EU funded project, GOET, which supports people with learning disabilities in getting and keeping a job. Back to Real World Impact…

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  8. Guardian: Quality of European research threatened by cuts

    …Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell was featured in a story in the Guardian Higher Education Network blog about proposed cuts to the European research budget which could risk British universities losing their position as world-leading institutions. She had called the proposals a ‘backwards step’ for UK and European researchers. You can read her full statement on this issue here….

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  9. THE: REF results reopen funding debate

    …research is funded is “critical” at a time when public spending is under scrutiny. “Previous funding decisions have been right to seek out and fund the teams doing leading research rather than picking winners at an institutional level,” he said. The best way to maintain the UK’s global standing as a research nation is to continue funding excellence “wherever it is found”, he argued. Read our full statement and coverage of Alliance universities’s R…

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