…ns of Health Cyber security leads Finance leads HR leads Heads of Admissions Executive/Personal Assistants to VCs IT leads Estates leads Health and Safety Student Union presidents Careers and Employability Immigration Compliance DTA Networks The DTA run a series of networks bringing together DTA researchers. DTA Management Group DTA Training Group DTA/DTA3 Researchers DTA3 Programme leads DTA3 Student representatives DTA3 Finance representatives D…
…case not to use reductions in international students as a means of meeting net migration targets and to encourage them to come to the UK by making two-year post study work visas more easily available to them. This would be in line with our major international competitors in Australia and Canada who have made more post-study work visas available – a move that is already affecting our share of the market. We would ask the Government to work with the…
…Our Networks As UA, we run a number of Academic Networks and Professional Networks: Academic Networks University Alliance runs formal academic networks in three key areas: Research and Innovation (R&I), Teaching and Learning (T&L) and Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (KEE). Teaching and Learning The T&L Network enables expert practitioners to come together to share best practice and innovate in the teaching and learning space. Recent external sp…
…ssional who never fails to add tremendous value and contribution to the HR network. During her time with the network Chizoma earned promotion to her current role, richly deserved. Chizoma is generous with her advice and wisdom, never a dull a meeting when Chizoma is in attendance. Professor Bugewa Apampa, Professor of Access and Participation, Birmingham City University Professor Apampa has an insatiable appetite for ensuring that education serves…
…vely with industry. Massive open online courses (MOOCs), an accessible and cheap form of online learning, have the potential to make higher learning more flexible, and therefore easier to combine with work placements or even running a business. Professor Anant Agarwal is chief executive at EdX, a non-profit MOOC platform founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University with over 3.5m students regularly logging in around…
…ced hospitals in Europe, with robots conducting cancer surgery, dispensing pharmacy medicines, transporting supplies, and analysing blood samples. Under the partnership, NBT will consider how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and socially and physically assistive robots, could be used to better support patients. For example, socially assistive robots could give post-operative patients on wards personalised g…
…ational student numbers over recent years, for the reasons stated above. Nonetheless, in March 2024, in a commission to the Migration Advisory Committee asking it to review the Graduate Visa Route, the Home Secretary asked the MAC to review the ‘drivers behind’ growth in international student numbers at universities with lower UCAS tariffs. Alliance universities, like most universities, offer undergraduate courses at various entry tariffs from hig…
…ucation.” Part of this indecision is due to confusion between Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and more traditional forms of online learning. But there are important differences between the two. For a start, MOOCs have so far been operating from a separate platform with ‘star’ lecturers used to entice participants (David Attenborough is a voice on one of the FutureLearn MOOCs, for example). This compares to more traditional online learning whic…
…rome Society (CDSS) is working closely with leading advertising agency FCB Canada. Nancy Crimi-Lamanna, Chief Creative Officer at FCB Canada, said: “Our work with CDSS over the past several years has really advocated for the needs of the Down syndrome community. “If we’re successful in proving a link between exercise and cognition, then this study has the power to change the way we think about learning and development. This will help to break down…
…tailoring firms. Discover how Texmo is modernising the tailoring industry online: texmo.co.uk The Maker’s Guild Ming Wu, Sam Asiri – University of Portsmouth With access to a range of traditional machinery and digital fabrication services, the Maker’s Guild provides dedicated and flexible, creative work spaces to artists, designers, hobbyists and the wider community. The initiative carries out workshops offering tailored creative engagement sessi…
