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University Alliance responds to the Office for Students free speech complaints scheme consultation

March 11, 2024

University Alliance has published their response to the Office for Students’ consultation on their free speech complaints scheme. Summary The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 req...

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UA’s asks ahead of the Spring Budget

February 27, 2024

Addressing the immediate challenges facing our universities and their students  UK universities now incur losses of £6bn annually on their core activities of research and teaching for UK home stude...

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University Alliance responds to the latest UCAS application data

February 15, 2024

Vanessa Wilson, CEO of University Alliance, has commented in response to the latest UCAS application data, released today (15 January): On the decline of applications for public sector workforce co...

Letter to the Times: “Nurses’ research time needs to be protected too”

February 8, 2024

In a letter to the The Times, University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson responds to the Times’ Health Commission. ‘Sir, The ten recommendations of The Times Health Commission are timely, n...

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Letter in the Financial Times: what’s miss­ing in the con­ver­sa­tion about uni­versit­ies

January 23, 2024

In a letter to the Financial Times, University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson talks about what’s missing in the conversations about the current challenges facing the higher education sector. ...

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Eight Alliance Universities awarded funding to expand degree apprenticeships

January 17, 2024

The Office for Students has announced a £12 million investment in degree apprenticeships in England, with over £2m allocated to Alliance universities. Vanessa Wilson, CEO of University Alliance sai...

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University Alliance responds to UCAS end-of-cycle data release

December 7, 2023

Responding to the release of the UCAS sector level end-of-cycle data today, University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson said: On the drop in acceptances for nursing courses: “Whilst it is heartening [&h...

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University Alliance responds to announcement on legal migration restrictions

December 4, 2023

In response to the Home Office’s announcement on legal migration restrictions, University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson said: “Targeting international students through threats to graduate work visas ...

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University Alliance responds to the Autumn Statement

November 22, 2023

University Alliance, who represent 16 of the UK’s leading professional and technical universities, has responded to the Chancellor’s autumn statement. University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wi...

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University Alliance writes to Chancellor with cost-neutral recommendations to safeguard technical education   

November 20, 2023

Ahead of the Autumn statement, University Alliance has warned the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt of ‘serious financial challenges’ that present a significant risk of ‘a two-tier university system emerging’...