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  1. Explainer: international students at Alliance universities

    March 28, 2024

    …seini secured a full-time job as a Quantity Surveyor with Bouygues UK Construction, a leading construction company. Husseini Musa (Nigeria) – MSc Construction Project Management, Robert Gordon University. Having spent several years as Senior Architectural Designer at Places for People, one of the UK’s largest social hosing providers, Shabnam now puts her architectural training into practice as Design Lead at Modularwise.  Modularwise is a leading…

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  2. Why degree apprenticeships deserve your attention

    February 5, 2024

    …gland and Wales and delivered mostly by universities (including the ground-breaking Police Education Consortium). However, this has been destabilised through a frustrating policy disconnect within government following the Home Office decision to end the compulsory roll-out of police degrees and statements promoting non-degree routes for policing. 2. There are choppy waters ahead We should not assume that on the current trajectory, the growth or ma…

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  3. We must support the diversification of academia’s media face

    August 30, 2021

    …t direction, says Professor Vini Lander The recent appearance on the BBC’s Newsnight programme of Stanley Johnson, the prime minister’s father, as an “environmentalist” caused quite a stir. After all, the UK’s universities are full of academics admirably well qualified to comment on the climate crisis. Why hadn’t the BBC given one of them a call? But even if it had, it is likely that the figure the producers plumped for, while better qualified tha…

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. University Alliance ‘20 in 2020′

    December 17, 2020

    …which was signed by 70 universities and businesses and covered in-depth on BBC Newsnight. 5. The Doctoral Training Alliance went virtual, delivering four online residential events and 55% more elective workshops than previous years (21 in total) on a range of subjects, including research skills, wellbeing, motivation, presentation and influencing skills to name a few. DTA researchers were given the opportunity to showcase their research to the wid…

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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. 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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  9. 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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  10. Our welcome note to the new Prime Minister

    July 23, 2019

    …study work visas. Our university system is world-class and the envy of the world. It educates and has educated the world’s greatest leaders including of course you and almost every politician, across every party. It has enabled some of the world’s greatest brains and creative talents to thrive and inspire the world over. But it’s important to remember that this talent comes not just from the towering spires of Oxbridge but from campuses and classr…

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