Growing up in Belfast during the 1970s and 1980s, I was the first person in my family to pass the 11+, to go to grammar school and then onto university. I am now a Partner at Deloitte, one of the biggest management consultancies in the UK. I work hard and enjoy what I do and […]
“In a report on improving quality assurance in higher education, University Alliance, which represents 22 mainly post-1992 universities, said more checks were needed on alternative providers, which are set to receive about £900 million in student support this year – a nine-fold increase on 2011-12.” University Alliance’s report, How do we ensure quality in an expanding […]
The higher education system in England is changing at an unprecedented rate. University Alliance is looking at how the higher education sector can best manage this mass of change. Read our report Our report considers what kind of quality assurance system is going to be fit for this more complex new world of expanding higher […]
A new report from University Alliance claims that the reputation of higher education in the UK will need more thoughtful safeguarding in an expanding system In response to David Willetts’ call for the sector to consider how to manage quality in an expanding system, University Alliance has sought to answer that question. The report states […]
Today University Alliance are publishing a report tackling one of the trickiest – yet most pressing – questions facing the HE sector. How can we ensure quality of the student experience in an expanding higher education system? The report is based on interviews with experts and leaders in HE, and draws on the masses of […]
“The University Alliance this week cautioned against an over-emphasis on a narrow group of universities, saying that it stood in the way of social mobility.” University Alliance’s social mobility report has been referenced in a piece written for the BBC. Sean Coughlan argues that it’s not a criticism of the individual institutions, but an irritation that […]
How do we tackle unemployment and skills mismatch? How do we build an innovative workforce, the envy of the world? Join us at the launch of… Job Ready Universities, businesses and students creating success Tuesday 8 July, 12.30pm – 2.30pm Churchill Room, House of Commons, London With short speeches from the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, CBI and […]
There has been a growing interest in ‘social mobility’ in the last 10 years or so but there is a lot of confusion about what it actually means. For one thing most people, when talking about social mobility, actually only mean UPWARD mobility but of course if groups and individuals are mobile they could move […]
University Alliance’s report, ‘Closing the Gap: unlocking opportunity through higher education’, features in a Times Higher Education article. The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”. That is the argument set out by the University Alliance, a mission […]
Article originally published on wonkhe. Growing up, I was acutely aware of the importance my family placed on education, despite my parents having left school without qualifications. They told me that education was the way to achieve a better future than they had been able to. The life experiences that I gained during my time […]
