…v=GbeAIl0Wn6I April 2020 webinar (DNACPR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePJKT9MZRXA&t=626s YouTube channel with all webinars to date: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQLenTftiiC_cFo0aaE-lA/videos BBC news report (incl interviews with GRASSroots group and Prof Tuffrey-Wijne), who contacted us following our webinar on vaccination: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55732177…
University Alliance features in a story by BBC News Online about the 2014 World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education magazine – and their new “formula” for top universities. University Alliance responded to say that using the rankings as a “roadmap” risked missing “the breadth of routes to delivering world-class research and graduates”. “The obsession with this idea of a ‘world-class university’ is a distraction from the tried…
…Libby Hackett, Chief Executive of University Alliance, spoke to BBC Breakfast about the rise in students studying locally and living at home. The BBC’s Sophie Van Brugen has been to meet some A-Level students who say that staying at home is the best option for them. Libby Hackett said, “As the quality of our universities improves, this is not about limiting choice. It could be a good decision to study within your city.” Watch the clip here….
Judith Burns (BBC) reports on the changes being made to student places for 2013-14. Speaking to the BBC, Libby Hackett Director of University Alliance, said “the changes announced today are a step in the right direction, increasing our ability to place students at the ‘heart of the system’”. But Ms Hackett added that changes in grant allocations to the sector announced in January already meant that overall student numbers at universities would dr…
BBC News Online’s coverage of the Budget’s announcement that student maintenance grants would be replaced by loans included our response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer‘s measures. Responding to the tuition fee changes, Maddalaine Ansell, chief executive of University Alliance, said: “Linking tuition fees to inflation is essential if our universities are to offer world class teaching. “It is reasonable to link the increase to teaching excellen…
Our chief executive Maddalaine Ansell has been quoted in coverage by BBC News Online of the latest BIS Graduate Labour Market Statistics which were published yesterday (Tuesday 9 June). Graduates in England have seen a fall in their median salary of more than £1,000 in the past five years, according to official statistics. But more are in work than at any time since 2007, suggests Department for Business, Innovation and Skills data. Maddalaine An…
…ge today. Prof Steve West, Chair of University Alliance, was quoted in the BBC News coverage of the story. “Access is not just about getting young people into elite universities” and that already there was “positive work that is going on right across the higher education sector”. Meanwhile Times Higher Education highlighted how University Alliance’s HELP proposals – which offer clear thinking and simple steps to enabling universal access to studen…
…ew report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, Elitist Britain? The report found that the UK is “deeply elitist” according to an analysis of the backgrounds of more than 4,000 business, political, media and public sector leaders. In the BBC News report, Prof West urged a “major rethink of what success looks like in the 21st Century”. “There is a massive breadth of routes to success and huge diversity of opportunity in the global, t…
See below some videos from the University of South Wales admissions teams, providing advice and best practice for your results day journey. The Truth about Clearing https://youtu.be/UxPwI-9Buhg Parents’ guide to clearing https://youtu.be/JkduImu0ay4 What to do on results day https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sera-UA-What-to-do-on-results-day.mp4 Choosing your clearing course https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/wp-content/uplo…
…order to be effective, it was going to require a lot of organisation and structure. “Organising and leading a mutual aid group containing nearly 1,000 volunteers – with another 250 awaiting approval – has been a huge learning curve. But it’s also been an amazing opportunity to put my leadership skills into practise. “I never realised just how transferable they would be, particularly extending them to a context like this. I’m finding myself using s…
