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  1. 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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  2. Collaboration will be key in delivering the NHS Workforce Plan

    July 5, 2023

    …taff and that there will be a wider vacancy gap in the future than we have today. The country therefore needs to raise awareness of routes into healthcare education and training, encouraging more people to consider caring to be a worthwhile and valued career. To keep pace with demand, the workforce has to continually expand and diversify. To achieve this, there needs to be high quality career guidance available, not just to school leavers. Educati…

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  3. Stronger Together: Building A University Alliance For The Future

    May 10, 2019

    …y platform, setting out a bold agenda. We’ve got a history of working constructively with policymakers behind the scenes, while advocating, arguing and lobbying hard for our 21 full and programme members. And we run great initiatives, including our Doctoral Training Alliance, which has supported hundreds of PhD scholars since 2015. But we can’t stand still. I want to get away from the old-fashioned, hierarchical outlook within higher education, wh…

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  4. 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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  5. British Academy join our call to look beyond salary-led definitions of value

    December 4, 2019

    …hot topic in the General Election campaign when an audience member at the BBC Question Time leaders’ debate suggested that earning £80,000 a year did not place him in even the top 50% of the population for income. As was swiftly demonstrated by fact checking services across the internet, a salary at this level places you firmly in the top 5% of earners, with the average UK salary being around £26,500 and the median household income about £29,400….

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. AUGAR: Our CEO Vanessa Wilson Sets Out Her Initial Thoughts

    May 30, 2019

    …sustainability of our universities – all of which risks the reputation and world-class standing of HE system. So it’s worrying the review keeps threat of “selective numbers cap” and “minimum entry requirement” as a Sword of Damocles hanging over the sector. This would be a huge retrograde step, if ministers go down that road. The goal must continue be to increase participation, to compete on a level playing field with our global competitors. The r…

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