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  1. Unpacking the TEF narratives: what does teaching excellence at an Alliance university look like?

    December 18, 2023

    …nce, it’s perhaps no surprise that we are die-hard ‘TEF superfans’, in the words of our Head of Policy Susanna Kalitowski. But what does teaching excellence look like? An Alliance narrative Despite the constraints of a structured template, I found each narrative told a compelling story of approaches taken to teaching, assessment and student experience with links to associated evidence and colour from case studies. Each document obviously represent…

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  2. Why degree apprenticeships deserve your attention

    February 5, 2024

    …cal doctors) through apprenticeship routes by 2031/32, compared to just 7% today, which will be no mean feat. There is already a teacher training apprenticeship route at postgraduate level, but Ministers are committed to introducing a new teacher degree apprenticeship for those without degrees (you might have seen the recent headlines screaming about ‘teenage teachers’). The well-established Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) is utilise…

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  3. The 2019 University Alliance Summit

    June 6, 2019

    …Firstly, we have a commitment to supporting social diversity. We are about breaking down barriers by educating students with fantastic capability, but often from challenging sometimes disadvantaged backgrounds, who are juggling dependents, jobs and life, and enabling them to fulfil their true potential and promise. Secondly we prioritise innovative teaching and the student experience. Thirdly Alliance Universities are place based institutions, the…

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  4. How Coventry University Group are driving ‘challenge-led innovation’

    February 23, 2024

    …ected in our mission of creating better futures. Identifying emerging real-world challenges and delivering innovative solutions to the world’s societal and economic needs is vital in us achieving this. Embracing Coventry University Group’s commitment to impactful, transdisciplinary and challenge-led research is therefore of paramount importance. As Director of the Innovation Ecosystem, I lead a specialist team dedicated to supporting pre-commercia…

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  5. Commuting students – enhancing a different student experience

    September 27, 2019

    …shoehorn them into a ‘traditional’ model that, for many, feels outdated in today’s busy world. For those of us who work in universities our interest, surely, should be in understanding and enhancing that modern experience. Students sitting in booths in the LRC cafe. (University of Hertfordshire/ Ian Scott) At Hertfordshire, as a diverse university with a commitment to transforming the lives of all our students, we are learning to work from the pos…

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  6. Reflections on the DTA programme, fellows and new videos

    September 28, 2022

    …ave developed in their skills and their passion for their project work. Recruiting internationally has brought together researchers from across the world; our DTA3 cohort has representation from 27 different countries. The global reach of the programme has grown and grown as our student body has gone from strength to strength. With lives turned upside down by the pandemic it has been an extraordinarily difficult two years for most people, and the…

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  7. The DTA is Intersectoral- Part 2

    January 14, 2020

    …en from over 150 PhD students and early career researchers from around the world. Participants attended from the world’s leading universities and industrial organisations including Berkley, MIT, Imperial, Rolls Royce, Mitsubishi and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The two weeks kicked off with an icebreaker challenge, to construct the tallest possible spaghetti structure, which could hold the weight of a marshmallow, which my team won. At…

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  8. Groundhog Day: Managing Motivation when Working from Home

    March 3, 2021

    …ou hit your flow), experiment and find what works best for you. Tiny tasks Breaking my goals into very small tangible tasks helped to reduce the overwhelming sense of swimming through treacle. Instead of telling myself, “Today I will write the background chapter,” I began to break it down into smaller tasks.   Ticking these smaller tasks of the list shows progress and can make that overarching goal no longer feel insurmountable. Dedicated workspac…

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  9. Celebrating the very best of DTA creativity and research talent at the Images of Research Awards

    October 21, 2020

    …for older adults. Cecilia Gialdini (Social Policy, Ulster University) was runner up for the judges with ‘Linguistic justice for the world’ which conveyed her research about how states implement just and fair language policies. The winner of the People’s Choice was Ifrah Mussa (Energy, Kingston University), whose image ‘The snow never bothered me anyway!’ (pictured below) taken while at the WinterWind 2020 conference in Sweden, was inspired by her…

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  10. #WeAreInternational blog: Nick Bender

    November 1, 2022

    …nd it cut loneliness by over 20% and depression by over 30%, among those already suffering from these conditions. The necessary ingredient, Nick says, is not just bringing people together with others in a group but about facilitating “deeper connections and feeling more connected”. It also requires candour and trust from participants: “social connection is built when people are allowed to feel vulnerable with others to share how they really feel,”…

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