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  1. Explainer: international students at Alliance universities

    March 28, 2024

    …Nonetheless, international students at Alliance universities are often highly impressive individuals. Given that they are mostly postgraduate students, and that they need access to significant funds to be granted a student visa and to afford to study in the UK, many have already had successful careers in their home countries. All postgraduate international students will already have undergraduate degrees, and many will have previous postgraduate d…

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  2. Addressing a lost opportunity in the NHS workforce crisis: higher education’s future role in clinical placement management

    August 5, 2021

    …nd strategic approach. Despite their civic role and existing partnerships across the health services, universities are not yet explicitly recognised by Integrated Care Systems with the recently published Integrated Care Systems design framework only refers (sparingly) to ‘education providers’. Going forward, universities and other higher education providers need a formal place in their local Integrated Care System – and a greater role in placement…

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  3. 2020 reviewed by our networks

    December 17, 2020

    …support university and community testing, something members are exceptionally proud of, particularly the speed and “being able to build a series of test centres from nothing in 10 days! Mark Milton FCIPD, Chief Operating Officer University of South Wales. As anchor institutions, Alliance universities are deeply rooted in their local communities and regions, and these relationships have been central to the pandemic response. “Throughout the pandemi…

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  4. Placed-based innovation at RGU Orkney

    November 29, 2023

    …op the skills they need to take advantage of digital marketing and data analytics. The project showcased the potential of immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality to engage audiences. Arctic network RGU also joined the University of the Arctic in 2021, a network of more than 200 higher education and research institutions across northern regions that address global challenges of Arctic people and societies by providing unique ed…

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  5. The DTA celebrates International Women’s Day 2021 with an ‘in conversation with’ talk

    March 8, 2021

    To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, the DTA brought together four women in leadership roles within the programme, who are at different stages of their career. Following the theme for #IWD this year, Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world , the ‘in conversation with’ chat was facilitated by Dr Cheryl Allsop (Deputy Director of DTA Social Policy and Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Univ…

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  6. How Professional Doctorates are empowering nurses and midwives to lead

    November 15, 2023

    …nurses to lead, participate in and deliver research, where research is fully embedded in practice and professional decision-making, for public benefit’. Four years previously, and almost as if in anticipation, we launched our Professional Doctorate in Nursing at Oxford Brookes University. The professional doctorate in Midwifery followed shortly after. At the time of writing, our first cohort of professional doctorate students are preparing for, o…

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  7. Why degree apprenticeships deserve your attention

    February 5, 2024

    …ash its face. There are several reasons why degree apprenticeships are costly and burdensome to deliver. It is widely recognised that they are caught up in a tangle of regulation and unnecessary bureaucracy, which is hampering innovation and growth. Some funding bands are set too low to cover the cost of delivery, even without factoring in current inflationary pressures. The funding bands for the Nursing Degree Apprenticeship and Nursing Associate…

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  8. Lifelong Loan Entitlement: opportunities for learners, choices for universities?

    June 6, 2023

    …in HE, the information we will need for informed decision-making will likely come a bit too late. If we don’t act, we could be forced into an ungainly sprint to the finish line, limiting the potential for a positive impact on participation in HE – so it’s better to grapple with the set of constrained choices we have available now. To figure out how to best engage with modular funding, I would propose: Working with employers locally and regionally…

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  9. In conversation with business leaders: here’s what SMEs like mine need from the Chancellor

    March 13, 2023

    …ERDF currently provides essential university-led support for small and early-stage businesses across the UK. I’d particularly like to see on-going government support for small and micro businesses in navigating digital transformation and the 4th industrial revolution. Pretty soon all businesses will be technology firms who just happen to be suppliers of a particular product or service. SMEs will definitely need support on that journey and the UK’…

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  10. National Care Leaver’s Week 2020 – how Kingston University is helping care leavers through their studies

    October 30, 2020

    …young people leaving care, the support they had as a child will stop abruptly on their 18th birthday, yet most of their peers who are not in care, will continue to be supported by their parents indefinitely. At Kingston University, we have been supporting young care leavers since 2006. Almost 15 years later we support just over 100 students with experience of local authority care, alongside students estranged from their families, young adult carer…

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