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Supporting student mental health during the pandemic and beyond
Written by Vice-Chancellor of UWE Bristol and University Alliance board member Professor Steve West Good mental health enables students to learn, work and strengthen their communities. As universit...
Digital teaching and learning: time for a blended approach
Written by Professor Mark Simpson, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Teesside University and member of the University Alliance Teaching and Learning network Sir Michael Barber’s review of Digital Teaching an...
Developing a LGBTQ* network for Postgraduate Researchers in Higher Education
My name is Ben and I identify as a gay man. I have spent much of my academic life studying topics that can be surmised as falling within the discipline […]
Obsessions with outcomes won’t deliver the flexible revolution
The government will not succeed in its efforts to increase flexible and modular provision until it ends its obsession with narrow student outcomes, argues Susanna Kalitowski. This article first app...
University Alliance shares highlights from members’ offerings during National Apprenticeships Week
For National Apprenticeships Week, we have shared the work that our members’ have been doing, the impact that they are making, and the success stories from their respective apprenticeship off...
Virtual panel explores future of apprenticeships in Hertfordshire
To celebrate National Apprenticeships Week, the University of Hertfordshire hosted a virtual panel event for employers to explore the role apprenticeships will play in Hertfordshire’s economic reco...
The DTA Rep Committee: Amplifying the voice of PhD researchers
By Social Policy Reps Katheryn Margaret Pascoe & April Murray Cantwell During the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic, elections were held to establish the very first representative committee for DT...
DTA3 Year in Review
2020 – A third extraordinary year for DTA3 Written by Heather Bennett, Deputy Head of Doctoral Training programmes It might be a cliché to define 2020 as an extraordinary year, […]
2020 reviewed by our networks
This year may have been difficult and immensely challenging at times, but throughout it, Alliance universities have come together to respond to the changing circumstances and strengthened their par...
University Alliance ‘20 in 2020′
For our ‘Year in review’ series, we have asked colleagues and friends from the UA team and across the Alliance to share with us their highlights, and achievements, from the […]
