Coverage of the Social Market Foundation report on Widening Participation, published in partnership with University Alliance and the Open University has appeared in the Independent.
The report looks in detail at the Prime Minister’s ambition to double the proportion of disadvantaged students entering higher education by 2020. The report finds that the Government is on course to miss its targets.
To read the report in full, follow this link.
University Alliance and its members have secured significant changes to the Office for Students’ (OfS) proposed Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
UA welcomes the government investment to strengthen the UK’s defence skills pipeline, with four of our member universities awarded funding through the Strategic Priorities Grant.
University Alliance has raised concerns about proposals to restrict entry requirements to university, which have been recommended in Policy Exchange’s Tarnished Towers report.