…Commenting on a story by the BBC on graduate skills, Libby Hackett, “called for universities to make the case for more higher education places as, despite the recession, the number of graduate vacancies continues to grow as a proportion of the total workforce.” Check out the full story here….
…Professor Janet Beer speaks to Channel 4 News’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy on the latest UCAS figures on university applications….
Image courtesy of comedy_nose via Flickr University Alliance response to the UCAS consultation on proposals to reform the university admissions process. We broadly support the changes proposed for 2014 and there is general recognition that there is value in pursuing reform of the admissions system. However, it is not clear that the proposal for 2016 provides the best solution to the underlying issues highlighted in the Admissions Process Review (…
…ontinues with £220m being spent on refurbishment across its campuses over the next ten years, including a brand new space for engineering, computing and subjects in the creative disciplines….
…, over 85% of single honours graduates have a professionally accredited or approved degree The University is one of only 20 universities awarded Enterprise Zone status The University is proud to put enterprise at its core, and is renowned for supporting the growth of its local and regional economy. Within the University Enterprise Zone, there are clusters of excellence that respond to national and regional demands, providing students and businesse…
…bmitted the following response to the Milburn review into Social Mobility and Child Poverty – download it here….
…re plenty of statistics we could have referred to. I could tell you that income from knowledge exchange activity between UK universities, business and other users increased by 35% over the last decade or how with a revenue of £23.3 billion in 2007-08, UK higher education generated over £59 billion of output to the UK economy. However, I am hoping that it will be all the more powerful to hear it from BMW, from IBM, from Centrica, from the North Eas…
…hting) best meets our aim of encouraging the supervision of students in higher-quality research environments? Why? Consultation question 3:If we used a quality score, as described in paragraph 22, to achieve differentiation by quality does a ratio of 1:2 seem appropriate? Consultation question 4: Do you consider that the value of an institution’s RDP grant relative to its mainstream QR grant provides a useful indicator of the sustainability of pos…
…The Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincoln is helping to launch a campaign highlighting the value of going to university. Professor Mary Stuart is the lead Vice Chancellor of the More than just a degreenational campaign and will speak alongside Universities Minister David Willets at the launch at the Houses of Parliament. Read the full article here….
…etary said. Mr Cable was setting out a more “progressive” system of funding that includes proposals for a so-called “graduate tax”. And he admitted that as the university sector becomes more competitive, it is inevitable that some institutions will struggle and should be left to fail. Read the full article. …
