…our times and what is unique about our diverse university community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k9G00v-4tg Examples of A Changed World Content: Harriet Riddell, an alumna of UH ran a sketching class as part of our A Changed World Makealong: https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/a-changed-world/the-collection/harriet-riddell2 Julie Kelly, our Academic Registrar, created a presentation: Who Wants to be an Academic Registrar? https://www.herts….
…king to spend a little money today in order to increase your happiness, you could do far worse than sharing an experience with one of your social groups: sometimes, when spent on doing things with others, money can buy happiness….
…ackgrounds, that go on to be the highest earners”. You can also read our full statement here….
…learning experiences and innovative interactive collaborative design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i6HuXW_6Co eXtended BCU Walkthrough Video: https://youtu.be/3RjGdoyNHj8 JOINT WINNERS: Kingston University research team who co-produced learning events on end-of-life and bereavement care for people with learning disabilities during the pandemic Having worked for two decades with people with learning disabilities, focusing on end-of-life and ber…
…tives “Successful negotiations with UET for them to grant us money towards online events to tackle isolation within the student community” Barbara Pereira Union Affairs Officer, Leeds Beckett Student Union Supporting their Communities, and the Nation/s, throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Alliance universities have been at the forefront of the Covid response. Thousands of nursing students from all 12 Alliance universities volunteered to take up posi…
…wn lockdown/working from home life also been an inspiration for all. These communications were honest and laced with warmth and compassion. These were very much valued by staff and heads of department and it contributed to the feeling of support that all School staff feel. Carol has been extremely sensitive of the impact that COVID has had on both staff and students. She has shown kindness and compassion and always has considered the welfare of th…
…ttenborough is a voice on one of the FutureLearn MOOCs, for example). This compares to more traditional online learning which is continuing to develop alongside MOOCs, has tended to be managed by individual institutions and offers accredited learning in line with more traditional campus-based courses. “Social and economic success will rely on harnessing the online environment.” It is clear that an increasingly competitive and technology-rich world…
…hed improvements in their completion rates and progression into work –https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/higher-education-fulfilling-our-potential Widening Participation, published by the Social Market Foundation in partnership with University Alliance and the Open University on 23 March, is online here: http://www.smf.co.uk/publications/widening-participation For press enquiries please contact Gabriel Huntley, Head of Communications and Ext…
…h questions are explored across the three regions (Belgium and Holland and UK): The challenges and enablers for social enterprises to develop their trading activity and their social/environmental aims and to what extent they manage to balance activities between these two fundamental purposes The challenges and the enablers of using innovation to support the development of trading activity and/or their social/environmental aims The challenges and t…
…he levelling up agenda and for use in localities across the UK to invest in: communities and place, support for local businesses and people and skills. Though this is a positive piece of funding, it is a replacement for all EU Structural Funds, of which there were many. The wider remit of the UKSPF means the specificity of ERDF is not being fully replaced and there is less available to support successful R&I projects. There is a ‘funding cliff…
