…ity Wearable devices to monitor heart disease The Open University Training dogs to detect cancer in patients Teeside University Pioneering research into tackling Obesity University of South Wales Creating an online resource for people with learning disabilities Sheffield Hallam Specially-designed bra to improve breast cancer treatment Salford University Using Virtual Reality to support children going through court Portsmouth University Student led…
…d Learning (SoTL): A sector wide study. The Higher Education Academy. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resource/defining-and-supporting-scholarship-teaching-and-learning-sotl-sector-wide-study [Accessed: 23/8/16] Healey, M., Flint, A. & Harrington, K. (2014) Engagement Through Partnership: Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The Higher Education Academy. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/resources/engagement_throug…
…n which she describes the ways she is developing anti-racist practice https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/how-can-we-become-anti-racist-guide Louise collaborated with the NUS/UUK by contributing to a round-table discussion and case-study of best practice published in their 2019 report Black, Asian and minority ethnic student attainment at UK universities: #ClosingtheGap. Here is a link to the research that Louise led to understand the expe…
…of post-study work visas. This would bring the UK in line with many of its competitor countries and ensure that our sector can remain competitive. “We need to send a strong message around the globe to say that the UK is open to any legitimate international students. Failure to act will risk the UK losing out to international competitors such as Canada and Australia, who are currently offering much more generous post-study visa conditions. Where Br…
…hed improvements in their completion rates and progression into work –https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/higher-education-fulfilling-our-potential Widening Participation, published by the Social Market Foundation in partnership with University Alliance and the Open University on 23 March, is online here: http://www.smf.co.uk/publications/widening-participation For press enquiries please contact Gabriel Huntley, Head of Communications and Ext…
…ences Clark, G (2016) Online. Cooke, P. (1992) ‘Regional Innovation Systems: Competitive Regulation in the New Europe’. Geoforum, 23 (3). Frostick, T. (2016) Building Healthy Cities: The role of universities in the health ecosystem. University Alliance. Online link Greater Manchester Combined Authority (2014) A Plan for Growth and Reform in Greater Manchester. Online. Hooper, D. (2016) Supporting Thriving Communities: The role of universities in r…
…lliance.ac.uk) | 07767 673 982. Notes to editor University Alliance website: www.unialliance.ac.uk Embargoed copy of the report can be obtained by contacting Liz McCarty (tel 0117 931 7431) or Philip Walker (tel 0117 931 7363) at HEFCE. For more information on university_vision go to, www.universityvision.org.uk and access our ‘The Way We’ll Work’ publication here. University Alliance is a non-partisan, non-political organisation working to promot…
…he levelling up agenda and for use in localities across the UK to invest in: communities and place, support for local businesses and people and skills. Though this is a positive piece of funding, it is a replacement for all EU Structural Funds, of which there were many. The wider remit of the UKSPF means the specificity of ERDF is not being fully replaced and there is less available to support successful R&I projects. There is a ‘funding cliff…
…mmuting students) often benefits all. While some ideas specifically target commuters, such as ‘Commuters Connect’, an online space set up by our Students Union to help commuters network and engage, many do not. By listening to the voices of our commuters, we realise they are asking for flexibility and choice in how or when they study, socialise or communicate with us. And that flexibility and choice benefits all students – even on campus students…
…tanding of how drones are use and their future potential. Find out more at www.iudro.com University of Greenwich CNPPS: Kamal Farid Kamal has come up with an idea that has the potential to turn the UK’s pavement sector into a carbon-negative industry. He has launched CNPPS, a completely new technology for paving hard surfaces through the use of secondary used aggregates. The manufacturing technology coverts secondary used and waste produced into t…
