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

Published on October 26, 2023
...benefiting 5,989 students. All-round engagement with an active curriculum ARU’s investment in our Live Brief strategy has been considerable. It ensures that students relate the knowledge and skills they are developing to real-world problems. This not only improves engagement with employability, it also reshapes staff and student engagement with the active curriculum itself. Now two years into our Live Brief approach, our development focus is payin... Read more »

International students welcome here

Published on January 7, 2015
...numerous benefits for our country – ensuring our universities maintain our market share in global higher education and enhance the UK’s higher education offer. These international students would fill crucial skills gaps and help our economy to grow. And once they return home, they help build vital global links for the future. What Mrs May seems to overlook – which Mr Osborne, former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts and many others... Read more »

What kind of place do we want to live in, really…?

Published on October 20, 2014
...m a narrow pool of talent. We have heard evidence of some organisations recruiting through the “old boys’ network”, where recently recruited graduates are asked to “tap up talent” through their personal networks in their alma mater. In addition, in some sectors like law, the number of very high-end opportunities has been shrinking (for example, training contracts with City firms).’ We at University Alliance agree wholeheartedly that this has to ch... Read more »

Opening remarks to UA Summit 2015: Anticipation. Disruption. Excellence

Published on June 5, 2015
...ty Alliance and its members today. Every challenge is an opportunity It’s true that we live in interesting times. Many of you will have seen the great article in the THE last week which quoted a classic telegram: “Start worrying. Details to follow.” That may well be apt. A key theme for the Summit will be how we adapt to a seismic shift in our market. You’ll hear some of the Welsh context to that discussion. The Encyclopaedia Britannica once memor... Read more »

Shaping the future of higher education and research

Published on September 25, 2014
...d to start focussing more of their collective energy on helping to set the rules of the market We see this as less of a problem and more a valuable opportunity we should grasp with both hands. If the UK HE sector is going to be successful in maintaining its world-leading credentials we are going to have to see greater collaboration in all sorts of areas. It is within this changing environment that I believe universities need to start focussing mor... Read more »

Closing speech UA Summit 2016: Leading the way in our cities and regions

Published on June 3, 2016
...s are uniquely placed to support long-term stewardship, enabling people to live healthy, happy and productive lives by integrating the complex web of organisations that comprise the local health and social care ecosystem. In my own city, Bristol Health Partners: a strategic partnership bringing together universities, the City Council with NHS Trusts and Commissioning groups – illustrates how this can be achieved. Its success stories include more e... Read more »

We need more graduates if we’re really serious about growth

Published on March 27, 2012
...viduals, the economy and society if we do in fact need more graduates. Our latest report, ‘The way we’ll work: labour market trends and preparing for the hourglass’, draws on the large body of evidence on labour market trends, looks at economic indicators measuring graduate saturation and discusses the implications for the UK. The evidence is that graduate vacancies continue to grow. Jobs in ‘graduate dense’ occupations are an increasing proportio... Read more »

Too many graduates?

Published on February 14, 2012
...y or we can risk seeing increased competition at the low end of the labour market, contributing to increased unemployment and difficulty in finding entry level jobs. Demand is high. Applying market logic would see the total number of student places increased. Instead they have been quietly cut by around 24,000 places compared with last year. Budgets may be limited but we should be stating the case for increasing the budget for higher education in... Read more »

Innovating Future Business 2017: Welcome the entrepreneurs

Published on April 28, 2017
...igns. Energy Fairies Ltd Nadine Griffin, Rhianne Griffin, Rechelle Davis – Liverpool John Moores University Energy Fairies Ltd are an all-female, family-run company focusing on renewable fuels. The company aims to help save energy, lower emissions and tackle fuel poverty. The product that they will pitch at Innovating Future Business 2017 is an adapted thermal plantation shutter that provides an affordable solution to heat insulation. Go to Energy... Read more »

COP26 needs to address air quality as well as climate change

Published on November 1, 2021
...tions.’ It will not be sufficient to raise awareness and leave the rest to market forces (although a public awareness campaign on air pollution is arguably long overdue). The public must not only be informed but must also be facilitated and enabled to make changes to ensure existing inequalities are not reinforced. To do that, we need to better understand how people live and the challenges that they may face, so policymakers can co-develop solutio... Read more »