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  1. Groundhog Day: Managing Motivation when Working from Home

    March 3, 2021

    …ou hit your flow), experiment and find what works best for you. Tiny tasks Breaking my goals into very small tangible tasks helped to reduce the overwhelming sense of swimming through treacle. Instead of telling myself, “Today I will write the background chapter,” I began to break it down into smaller tasks.   Ticking these smaller tasks of the list shows progress and can make that overarching goal no longer feel insurmountable. Dedicated workspac…

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  2. Continuous Professional Development

    June 16, 2018

    …ogrammes (accredited and non-accredited) This provides members with potential efficiency savings in staff development while also providing creative support and challenge to course leaders working with different institutions or disciplines. Examples include the Greenwich programme leader hub with videos, guidance, explanations and workshops and Manchester Metropolitan FLEX opportunities Annual conferences Such as Greenwich Annual APT conference in…

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  3. ‘What now?’: how adaptations to assessment during COVID-19 can improve inclusivity

    December 6, 2023

    …work to find out how these practices are being applied in a post-lockdown world, and the barriers and enablers to doing so effectively.  What did we find?  Through the QAA collaborative enhancement project, we had already identified nine attributes of inclusive assessment:   Embeds support    Develops assessment literacy   Provides formative opportunities    Communicates meaningfully    Enables personalisation    Fosters digital capabilities    P…

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  4. DTA Summer School 2021 – coming together to explore interdisciplinarity

    September 2, 2021

    …aspects of our project and to learn more about the interdisciplinarity of today’s research landscape. It was fascinating to see how some researchers didn’t even realise their research could be interdisciplinary until they started discussing it with others.In the past DTA Summer Schools have been held separately for the 3 research strands that make up DTA – Applied Biosciences for Health, Energy and Social Policy. This year for the first time, the…

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  5. 2021 at University Alliance: the year in review

    December 21, 2021

    …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…

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  6. Made At Uni- The Nation’s Lifesavers

    May 16, 2019

    …n reminds us of the vital role that our universities play for the nation/s today, for future generations and for the benefit, future health and prosperity of the UK. Speculations naturally abound around the future purpose and role of universities, particularly in the face of the transformational power of technology for the sector. Championing the achievements of our sector through such campaigns is a fantastic way to ensure that we build on them i…

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

    June 6, 2023

    …provision work for potential students, we need to understand how we can structure courses in a way that will fit round their work and other commitments, and ensure modules make sense on their own as well as part of a parent qualification. Rethinking student experience We will need to ensure that that our academic support, personal tutoring and wellbeing structures and services make sense in this context. We must build a good part-time or intermit…

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  8. Creative arts subjects vital for supporting UK innovation and economy

    June 9, 2021

    As University Alliance member Kingston University today releases their #FutureSkillsLeagueTable campaign, which champions the importance of creative skills for employers and warns against the undervaluing of creative courses by government policy decisions, we’ve gathered some case studies which emphasise the importance of creative arts graduates to the modern jobs market. Alliance universities are central to the innovative and ever-growing creati…

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  9. Unpacking the TEF narratives: what does teaching excellence at an Alliance university look like?

    December 18, 2023

    …excellence look like? An Alliance narrative Despite the constraints of a structured template, I found each narrative told a compelling story of approaches taken to teaching, assessment and student experience with links to associated evidence and colour from case studies. Each document obviously represented many hours of hard work put in to produce more than twenty pages of finely crafted narrative. The qualitative analysis techniques I used of cod…

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  10. University Alliance ‘20 in 2020′

    December 17, 2020

    …ual summit online with exciting and diverse speakers and sessions from the world of politics and government and launched the first Alliance awards. 16. We secured prominent media profiles in sector and national media including comment pieces and broadcast for UA spokespeople, as well as fielded bids to our members resulting in strong representation from UA members and landing of key messages. 17. We successfully completed our recruitment of over 7…

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