…successful and both have contributed to other media outlets, including ITV news, I Newspaper, Birmingham Mail, Drapers, Retail Gazette and local and national radio stations. In March 2021 Sophie’s partner was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma (blood cancer). Sophie’s response was to start training for a 10K run and raise £2845 for Lymphoma action from donations by colleagues and friends. Her energy, inclusiveness and positivity are examples to all…
…education and research sector. The Alliance Award ARU Peterborough, Anglia Ruskin University ARU Peterborough is a new university, designed in partnership to match the needs of local students, employers and the regional economy. It was created during the pandemic to realises a 40-year ambition for a university in and for Peterborough, a higher education ˜cold spot’ in the country. ARU worked at great pace with partners Cambridgeshire & Peterboroug…
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…
The latest BIS Graduate Labour Market Statistics is good news for graduates with the high-tech skills employers are demanding. Not only is the employment rate for graduates the highest since 2007 but they are more likely to be employed in high-skilled jobs than non-graduates. Maddalaine Ansell, Chief Executive of University Alliance, said: “The latest figures demonstrate that degrees continue to be vital for supplying graduates to meet the high-t…
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…
…oday. 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 student lo…
…ort 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, technol…
…Professor Janet Beer speaks to Channel 4 News’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy on the latest UCAS figures on university applications….
…ector showcasing session with DfE officials on the role of universities in running Multi-Academy Trusts. We didn’t pull punches in our response to the ITT market review, and subsequently campaigned for the government to halt its implementation. This is an issue we continue to engage on. In much sadder news, we lost a dear and well-respected colleague this Summer: Professor Jane Turner, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Teesside University, who made such a hu…
