Home

Posts

Clear filters

  1. University Alliance writes to Chancellor with cost-neutral recommendations to safeguard technical education   

    November 20, 2023

    Ahead of the Autumn statement, University Alliance has warned the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt of ‘serious financial challenges’ that present a significant risk of ‘a two-tier university system emerging’.   Vanessa Wilson, CEO of University Alliance wrote to the Chancellor suggesting several low-cost or cost-neutral policies to ensure professional and technical universities can continue to excel in […]

    Read more of: University Alliance writes to Chancellor with cost-neutral recommendations to safeguard technical education   
    University Alliance's logo

  2. How Professional Doctorates are empowering nurses and midwives to lead

    November 15, 2023

    In our latest ‘Innovators’ blog, Dr Helen Aveyard writes about how Oxford Brookes University are empowering nurses and midwives to become researchers. “In 2021, The Chief Nursing Officer for England, Ruth May, published the Strategic Plan for Research which outlines the intention to ‘create a research environment that empowers nurses to lead, participate in and […]

    Read more of: How Professional Doctorates are empowering nurses and midwives to lead
    Helen Aveyard

  3. Pandemic adaptations can improve inclusive assessment practices today: UA network releases report

    November 7, 2023

    The University Alliance Teaching & Learning network have released their report: What works? Supporting student progression and attainment through sustainable inclusive assessment practices. Seven institutions from the network, led by Teesside University, carried out the research project to identify which inclusive assessment policies and practices implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic could be applied in a […]

    Read more of: Pandemic adaptations can improve inclusive assessment practices today: UA network releases report

  4. How Anglia Ruskin University’s Live Brief modules are enhancing graduate employability

    October 26, 2023

    Employability is an individual matter. It requires each student to embrace their professional development and to access the support and opportunities our universities provide. Unfortunately, many students leave it too late, assuming employability is a set of skills they can  acquire at some point before they graduate. However, academics and other staff responsible for employability […]

    Read more of: How Anglia Ruskin University’s Live Brief modules are enhancing graduate employability

  5. Let’s get strategic

    October 5, 2023

    If you ask any UK Vice Chancellor what’s keeping them awake at night, it’s highly likely to be the financial sustainability of their institution and the wider sector. Years of frozen funding coupled with rising costs are inevitably taking their toll across all four nations. University leaders are also increasingly worried about the impact the cost-of-living crisis […]

    Read more of: Let’s get strategic
    Susanna Kalitowski

  6. ‘Let’s Get Technical’: University Alliance publishes five policy asks for the next Government

    September 29, 2023

    Note: in July 2024, following the election of a new Labour government, University Alliance has published an updated publication Let’s Get Technical: The First 100 Days. This sets out our recommendations for the government’s first 100 days in office, and in the long-term. University Alliance, an association of the UK’s leading professional and technical universities, […]

    Read more of: ‘Let’s Get Technical’: University Alliance publishes five policy asks for the next Government
    Film students photographed - the Let's Get Technical campaign image

  7. Professional and technical universities come top for student experience

    September 28, 2023

    Responding to the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) results which have been publicly released today (28 September 2023), University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson said: “As University Alliance we are immensely proud of the fantastic and innovative teaching at Alliance universities, which today’s published Teaching Excellence Framework results attest to. Currently, over a third (36%) of all […]

    Read more of: Professional and technical universities come top for student experience
    University Alliance's logo

  8. Digital transformation is key to boosting student experience

    September 26, 2023

    Universities are faced with rising costs and shrinking margins, and the challenges are many. Student attraction and retention remains a priority, amid an everchanging mix of domestic and international students. There is no doubt the competition for international and other highly sought-after students has been heightened by COVID, and the ability to manage profitability through […]

    Read more of: Digital transformation is key to boosting student experience

  9. #ArtIsEssential campaign coalition launch Creative Education Manifesto, calling on all political parties to protect the creative arts talent pipeline

    September 21, 2023

    Ahead of party conference season, a coalition of creative and higher education organisations have launched their Creative Education Manifesto, calling on all political parties to commit collectively to restoring creative arts education. The manifesto contains eight key asks which, if actioned, the coalition argues will help protect the critical talent pipeline that feeds the UK’s […]

    Read more of: #ArtIsEssential campaign coalition launch Creative Education Manifesto, calling on all political parties to protect the creative arts talent pipeline

  10. University Alliance welcomes House of Lords report on inquiry into the Office for Students

    September 13, 2023

    The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has today released a report on their inquiry into the Higher Education regulator the Office for Students (OfS).  The inquiry followed calls for a review into the Office for Students earlier this year by a coalition of university mission groups, including University Alliance.  The report, entitled “Must […]

    Read more of: University Alliance welcomes House of Lords report on inquiry into the Office for Students
    University Alliance's logo