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The University of Huddersfield has overseen and organised an international research project which seeks to understand and alleviate the plight of children who have a parent in jail. The issue is a significant one. Within the EU at any time … Continue reading
Merry Christmas from all of us at University Alliance
As we look back on another year we are, as ever, grateful for your support and the opportunity to work with you to promote and advance higher education. You can read Libby Hackett’s, our Chief Executive, blog looking back at … Continue reading
University Alliance comment on FutureLearn announcement
A partnership of UK universities, led by the Open University, is launching an online project which aims to challenge US universities that have dominated this emerging market. They will aim to give the public access to higher education courses via … Continue reading
The Creative Enterprise Bureau at Bournemouth University
The Creative Enterprise Bureau (CEB) was set up at Bournemouth University (BU) to connect business problems with academic research and expertise. Now in its second year of operation, the academic base for CEB work consists of staff from the Emerging … Continue reading
Guardian: The Future of Higher Education summit
Leading figures attended ‘The Future of HE summit’ in London to discuss issues including the importance of maintaining competitive advantages internationally, research and its relationship with industry and ways in which universities can diversify revenue schemes. University chair, Professor Janet … Continue reading
Economic growth
The importance of universities operating locally was seen as essential for economic growth. Participants discussed the fact that universities’ local partnerships varied greatly, while some had a good ethos of working to support local firms others saw themselves more globally. … Continue reading
Research and innovation
What could research councils and TSB do to encourage business-university collaboration? It was felt that HEIs should build their relations with areas where they have something special and distinct. We need to look past mainstream QR and Research Councils for … Continue reading
Skills and knowledge
What are the attributes needed for good “entrepreneurs” and how do we develop these in graduates? Discussion started with what exactly is meant by the word ‘entrepreneurs’. Does this refer to freelancers or the Richard Bransons of this world? Many believe … Continue reading
THE: Individual course fees may be used for distribution of ‘margin’ places
In an article in Times Higher Education (THE) Libby Hackett, director of the University Alliance said the unexpected hit was bad for student choice as many of the institutions affected were performing strongly on applications. “You are looking at universities … Continue reading
Congratulations to the winner of our Christmas card design competition!
This year at University Alliance we ran a design competition for the cover of our Christmas cards. The competition was open to staff and students of Alliance universities. The theme for this year’s competition was ‘Growth’, participants were asked to … Continue reading
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