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Enterprise Stars: Meet the student entrepreneurs – part 2
Welcome back to part two of our series looking at the student entrepreneurs taking part in this year’s Enterprise Stars at the University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus on 14 June. [&h...
Enterprise Stars: Meet the student entrepreneurs part 1
On 14 June, 13 entrants will be pitching their innovative ideas to a panel of investors. They will be competing for a share of £5,000. Below we write about the […]
Enterprise Stars: Meet the Investors
It is one month to go before our celebration of emerging business talent takes place at the University of Salford at its MediaCityUK campus on Thursday 14 June. Thirteen universities are […]
Guardian University Awards – winners and runners-up
Alliance universities took home top prizes from the prestigious Guardian University Awards last week. They included the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) which picked up the Internationalisa...
Robert Halfon MP speech on Degree Apprenticeships
Robert Halfon MP, Chair of the Education Select Committee, gave the keynote speech at our Degree Apprenticeship event on Monday 23 April 2018. The text of his speech is […]
International Day of Happiness: reflecting on what makes us happy
Here’s a simple question for this fine Tuesday morning – are you happy? A deceptively simple question, but it is one that many of us may find it difficult to reply […]
National Apprenticeship Week: Tom Doughty
Tom started work as a care assistant before embarking on an apprenticeship followed by a cybersecurity degree at Teesside University. In this Q+A for National Apprenticeship Week 2018 he discusses ...
How female entrepreneurship means sisters can finally do it for themselves
My life as a female entrepreneur started with a cleaning company. Not everyone can afford a cleaner every week, but who wouldn’t want to come home on the occasional Friday […]
Cracking the gender code
My first memory of how some people treat girls differently to boys was when I was around four years old. I had an older male cousin who passed down toys […]
#PressforProgress on periods in Nepal
One of the pressing issues that the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal drew our attention to was the difficulties faced by women in accessing products to manage their periods with dignity. […]
