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University Alliance media coverage `

Published on April 29, 2021
...bers of Commerce 6/4/2021 https://www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/latest-news/news/2021/4/6/eight-point-plan-for-education-to-spearhead-recovery/ Oxford Mail – 1/4/2021 https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19200742.university-alliance-outlines-role-covid-recovery-uk/   Research impact publication Research Professional 10/3/2021 https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2021-3-university-alliance-highlights-societal-impact-of-... Read more »

Alliance Awards 2021 winners!

Published on June 23, 2021
...haring success. She has a rranged online ‘health and wellbeing’ events and runs a weekly Zoom ‘Huddle’ which attracts 80+ staff to share news and fun – a serious exercise in wellbeing and ending with the traditional online Mexican wave. Tracey was just remarkable, keeping the team together and connected, looked out for everyone’s wellbeing, ensured the team continued to deliver across the board to the highest standards – and above all had loads of... Read more »

Published on June 9, 2021
...ted by Vice-Chancellor Professor McKellar: https://www.herts.ac.uk/aboutus/news-centre/news/2021/apprenticeships-will-play-crucial-role-in-hertfordshireseconomic-recovery-post-pandemic,-says-the-university-of-hertfordshire-vice-chancellor Case studies from team’s employer-partners and recruited apprentices: o https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/news-centre/news/2021/my-degreeapprenticeship-shaped-me-into-the-professional-i-am-today o https://www.whti... Read more »

Media training sessions for UA academics

Published on February 26, 2021
...ort. Please get in touch if you require more information, or would like to arrange one to one practice interviews for academics who would benefit from individual coaching.   This online session is led by Adam Batstone, a former BBC journalist who has worked in newspapers, radio, TV and the BBC News website. Adam specializes in helping academics to get the most out of media interviews and has worked with Royal Holloway University, The University of... Read more »

Vince Cable visits Plymouth University to launch the first Regional Growth Fund project

Published on July 22, 2011
...egions. It will do this by awarding grants to small businesses that have struggled to access finance through other means. Vince Cable visit to Plymouth University with Prof Wendy Purcell, Vice Chancellor, and Prof Julian Beer, Director of Research and Innovation, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Regional Enterprise, Research and Innovation) Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “I applaud this initiative of Plymouth University and Western Morning News. It’s a... Read more »

Graduate recruitment survey is good news for graduates and the economy

Published on January 25, 2011
...survey, Libby Aston, Director of University Alliance, said: “This is great news for graduates. It is particularly striking against the backdrop of the ONS reporting the economy contracted in the last three months of 2010. We strongly believe universities and graduates are key to delivering growth in the UK. Our universities maintain a revolving door with business to help ensure graduate employers get innovative and thoughtful graduates with the ri... Read more »

Birmingham City University collaborates on first HuffPost Centre for Journalism

Published on November 27, 2019
...ost will help design modules with real-world challenges, lead tutorials on news, lifestyle, politics and entertainment, and host talks. Students will also be given the opportunity of work experience in the newsroom alongside the HuffPost editorial team. Jess Brammar, Executive Editor of HuffPost UK: “We couldn’t be more thrilled to be partnering with Birmingham City University to welcome students to the HuffPost Centre for Journalism. We love what... Read more »

BBC News: ‘Deeply elitist UK locks out diversity at top’

Published on August 28, 2014
...ort by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, Elitist Britain? The report found that the UK is “deeply elitist” according to an analysis of the backgrounds of more than 4,000 business, political, media and public sector leaders. In the BBC News report, Prof West urged a “major rethink of what success looks like in the 21st Century”. “There is a massive breadth of routes to success and huge diversity of opportunity in the global, technol... Read more »

BBC News online: Money is the key to being a top university, says study

Published on September 15, 2014
University Alliance features in a story by BBC News Online about the 2014 World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education magazine – and their new “formula” for top universities. University Alliance responded to say that using the rankings as a “roadmap” risked missing “the breadth of routes to delivering world-class research and graduates”. “The obsession with this idea of a ‘world-class university’ is a distraction from the tried... Read more »

BBC News: Labour urges technical universities for jobs boost

Published on August 28, 2014
...oday. Prof Steve West, Chair of University Alliance, was quoted in the BBC News coverage of the story. “Access is not just about getting young people into elite universities” and that already there was “positive work that is going on right across the higher education sector”. Meanwhile Times Higher Education highlighted how University Alliance’s HELP proposals – which offer clear thinking and simple steps to enabling universal access to student lo... Read more »