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Read University Alliance’s response here to the Consultation on Agenda 2030: One Nation. Labour’s Plan for Science.

University Alliance was also featured in coverage by The Times following former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts’ proposals that debts owed by students could be sold to the university they attended. He said this would give universities a stronger interest in ensuring that their students secured good jobs so they paid back more of their […]

University Alliance’s response to David Willetts’ proposals that universities get the opportunity to buy the debt that their graduates owe. Our response was featured in the online and print editions of the FT:  “Allowing a small number of the wealthiest universities to benefit from buying their loan book rewards the fact that they take the highest achieving […]

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 […]

Following comments from David Willetts that universities should be given the opportunity to buy the debt that their graduates owe, Professor Steve West, Chair of University Alliance, said: “David Willetts is proposing that universities should be able to buy their own student loan books as a way to sort out the unsustainable HE funding system. While […]

Martin Roth, the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, has attacked the UK education system saying it leaves too many design students lacking ‘basic skills’.  His comments were reported in a piece in Design Week which also highlighted how “Earlier this year, University Alliance called for a ‘revolution’ in design education to ‘embed creativity and problem-solving […]

“Coming from a less well known university I was expecting to feel out of my depth but I was proven wrong”. Katy Beresford, Graduate Development Specialist, Clifford Chance, writes a guest blog for University Alliance to reveal more about the exclusive University Alliance open day at the prestigious law firm. At Clifford Chance we believe in […]

Libby Hackett, Chief Executive of University Alliance, features in a letter to the Guardian calling for the Government to urgently examine how we fund the higher education sector. Recent coverage of a U-turn by the business secretary, Vince Cable, on selling off the student loan book (Cable risks new coalition rift by scrapping student loans […]

Libby Hackett, Chief Executive of University Alliance, features in a letter to The Times calling on the Government to examine how to put funding of the higher education sector on a more sustainable footing. Sir, After Mr Cable’s announcement that the sale of £12bn worth of student loans (July 23) is to be abandoned, the […]

 “The debate is too narrowly focused on what universities can do to widen participation and not on the outcomes of those students after graduation.” University Alliance welcomes the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) report on 2015 – 2016 access agreements published today. Commenting on the report, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West of England and […]