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During the last two years, over two hundred and thirty providers of higher education have submitted Access and Participation Plans (APP) for approval to the Office for Students (OfS). Another forty-six are set to submit in the next six months. In these new plans, providers lay out how they will improve equality of opportunity for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in accessing, succeeding in, and progressing from higher education. Some of th…

My name is Andrei Feraru, and today I own a Coventry-based business called Feraru Dynamics with my brother Vlad. My journey from undergraduate student to entrepreneur began while on placement with Rolls-Royce as a student at Coventry. That was when I first learned about the devastating effects of a preventable condition called Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome. Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome – or HAVS – isn’t just an abstract issue: over two million worke…

Take the professional doctorates survey now Those of us who worked with former Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon will be all too familiar with his “two favourite words in the English language”, “Degree” and “Apprenticeships”. I would like to advocate for two more: “Professional” and “Doctorates,” for many of the same reasons that Robert Halfon was such a cheer leader for Degree Apprenticeships.  Over the coming decades, high level education…

In December 2024, University Alliance worked with partners across a broad range of sectors to coordinate a letter to the chancellor, calling on her to protect apprenticeship levy funding for Level 7 apprenticeships – the most advanced level of apprenticeship. Read our letter to the chancellor here This was a response to the government indicating that they plan to prevent employers from using apprenticeship levy funding for Level 7 apprenticeships…