…reputation and ultimately create transformational projects. Within this island landscape, community engagement has been at the heart of RGU’s approach, embedding the University’s activities and ethos within local networks. A five-year plan In April, RGU Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Olivier and the University Executive Team visited Orkney to launch RGU Orkney 2023-2028, a new five-year plan. The plan focuses on three main object…
…ills Simulation Centres, online Virtual Case Creators and wards, to world-class laboratories, medical equipment and, on the patient care side, pioneering technology that aids the NHS through partnership work. Find out more about Alliance universities’ world-leading high tech facilities below. https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/2021/07/14/facilities-at-faculty-of-health-education-and-life-sciences-birmingham-city-university/ https://www.unialliance.ac.u…
…A Team swiftly mobilised to move our previous in-person training programme online, developing our Zoom facilitation skills as we went. We’ve hosted four online residential training schools, numerous remote elective sessions and a suite of virtual ‘catch up’ sessions that range from informal coffee socials to DTA Director lead subject discussions that provided academic advice to the DTA community. The training programme now also prepares fellows to…
…e team at UA, this is our ’20 in 2020’. 1. We kicked off the year with the launch of a new 3 year strategic plan for University Alliance with an ambitious new vision, mission, strategies, objectives and principles co-designed with members and staff at UA 2. We hosted a series of successful roundtables with senior politicians, leaders and government officials, to facilitate opportunities for our members to engage with decision makers to discuss top…
…health and wellbeing support services, having adapted provision to enable online engagement and have introduced new processes and systems to support those in need. All students can be assured that Alliance universities are doing everything reasonably practicable, following government guidelines, to create a Covid-safe learning environment. For those who are self-isolating, all universities and have established dedicated processes to support them…
…sessions, whether to chat, rest or work. Provide lockers so that students don’t have to carry heavy bags all day. Timetable with travel in mind, minimise long gaps and late changes. Schedule events and activities in weekday daytime, as well as evening and weekend. Embrace technology! Offer online learning and communities. So, as staff plan their modules, Students Unions get ready for Freshers, and new students nervously wonder if they’ll cope and…
…nurses – was the announcement of the long-awaited NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan. Ahead of the plan, we published our ‘Delivering the Healthcare Workforce of the Future’ briefing. It outlines how universities, the NHS and the government can work together to find solutions to the ongoing NHS workforce crisis. Some of our recommendations were featured in the Long-Term Workforce Plan when it was eventually published, such as increased support for simul…
…ne programme described how they created a culture of academic work as a collaborative process, with multiple opportunities for formative feedback ensuring that the student is never “on their own” with their assignment. As a direct legacy of Covid, students are free to choose how they prefer to engage with feedback, be that via email or online/on-campus meetings. Employability = inclusivity? For all students, regardless of circumstance, it is i…
…ercise on its own didn’t reduce loneliness, and he wanted to find a particular approach which did this. He launched a London version in Waltham Forest. Walk and Talk For Your Life’s formula involves a mixture of informal socialising, exercise such as a group walk, balance, and strengthening routines, and formal socialising in the form of discussion around a health topic. Under lockdown the group walk changed to a shadow boxing session. The exercis…
…lling for the protection of creative arts in higher education. The 10,000 Black Interns Programme, of which UA is founding HE partner, saw application targets from talented black students smashed for the 2022 intern programme. We also hosted a number of enlightening engagements with government. These included a session between Chancellor of The Exchequer’s Special Adviser, Mike Webb, and UA VCs ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review, as well a…
