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Mobilising Bristol’s students to create a greener future
A joint project between Bristol’s two universities and the local community has won an International Green Gown Award in recognition of its work to pave the way for a more […]
Innovating Future Business 2017: Welcome the entrepreneurs
Innovating Future Business is an enterprise competition encouraging innovative, forward-thinking business ideas, open to students from Alliance universities. With over 1,000 graduate start-ups com...
Innovating Future Business 2017: Introducing the investors
Innovating Future Business is an enterprise competition encouraging innovative, forward-thinking business ideas, open to students from Alliance universities. With over 1,000 graduate start-ups com...
Opening doors to new ways of research collaboration
Recently, students on our Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) programme travelled from their home institutions across the UK to London. The DTA Energy researchers headed to the Energy Institute, befor...
Top tips for pitching your business idea
Do you have a great business idea you want to share with the world? Before you go shouting about it from the rooftops, ensure that you maximise the opportunity by […]
Unlocking the secrets of the humble aspirin pill
How often when you have a headache do you reach for the aspirin bottle lurking at the back of your bathroom medicine cabinet? Aspirin was originally derived from the bark […]
Millions of pounds awarded to tackle barriers to student success
Projects to tackle barriers to student success led by Alliance universities working in partnership with other education providers have been awarded millions of pounds. HEFCE announced that 17 proje...
Making lifelong learning a reality – key facts
Our report Lifelong Learning: Ladder and Lifeline makes recommendations on how to make lifelong learning a reality so that people can benefit from education and training throughout their lives. The...
The Open University
Lifelong Learning at the heart of everything it does The Open University (OU) was the world’s first successful distance teaching university, founded on the belief that there were many more people [...
University of South Wales
Cementing progression pathways through partnerships The University of South Wales (USW) is committed to lifelong learning. 43% of their student body is aged over 25 and 38% study on a part-time [&h...
