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  1. The DTA celebrates International Women’s Day 2021 with an ‘in conversation with’ talk

    March 8, 2021

    …WD this year, Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world , the ‘in conversation with’ chat was facilitated by Dr Cheryl Allsop (Deputy Director of DTA Social Policy and Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Wales), who was joined by Co-Chairs of the DTA Researcher Representative Committee – Ana Tendero-Cañadas (Bioscience, Brighton), April Murray Cantwell (Social Policy, Sheffield Ha…

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  2. Obsessions with outcomes won’t deliver the flexible revolution

    February 15, 2021

    …egulating HE quality is going to have to change for flexible provision to truly take off across the sector. For one thing, the Government needs to become a lot more relaxed about continuation. As the Dearing Report observed back in 1997: “non-completion will become an increasingly difficult concept to measure if more students undertake higher education programmes in a flexible way, over a long period of time.” It also needs to be more patient abou…

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    Susanna Kalitowski

  3. DTA Images of Research Awards winners reflect on their achievements

    November 18, 2020

    …me smiling.” Cecilia Gialdini (Social Policy, Ulster University), who was runner up in this category with ‘Linguistic justice for the world’, said: “I love being part of this heterogeneous community where social scientists, engineers, and bio-scientists work side by side to reach a more equal, healthier and more sustainable society” The winner of the People’s Choice Award was Ifrah Mussa (Energy, Kingston University) for her image The snow never…

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  4. Alliance universities joined by Minister for roundtable on apprenticeship and skills

    November 12, 2020

    …an emphasise a false divide between the two, the government should build a world-class ecosystem which incentivises greater joined-up working to meet local and regional needs. With their long-established partnerships with local FE providers, Alliance universities are already drawing on this local collaboration to deliver pathways and opportunity, particularly at levels 4 and 5, and hope that future reforms prioritise this collaboration. With the o…

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  5. The importance of listening to businesses in developing degree apprenticeships

    February 6, 2020

    …of teaching. Small businesses, particularly within non-tech industries, struggle to find the resource needed to train an apprentice and flexible learning may be more suitable for their needs. Apprenticeships are designed to require at least 20% off-the-job training, and this too can be an issue for many small businesses to manage. To address this, the University of Hertfordshire has a robust development and approval process in place for apprentic…

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  6. Realising the benefits of the KEF through collaboration

    February 5, 2020

    …ross the sector. Where existing relationships are thriving and delivering true benefits to academia, industry, and the economy and society more broadly, we need to be sure that we work to capture the value on an ongoing basis to ensure success is recognised and best practice is shared. However, this value must be viewed holistically. The cultural benefits afford by the arts may be more difficult but are not impossible to measure. The business worl…

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

    December 4, 2019

    …subjects help us to understand ourselves, our society and our place in the world, creating a mind-set of cultural agility, which enables us to navigate through multicultural environments, to be adaptable, globally mobile, and sensitive to difference. The Labour Force Survey shows that graduates in all disciplines have very similar employment rates and are equally resilient to economic shocks, while arts, humanities and social science graduates are…

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  8. Invest in technical skills by bridging the false HE/ FE divide

    November 30, 2019

    …ucation is essential for developing the UK’s skills base. According to the World Economic Forum, more than half of all employees will require extensive upskilling or reskilling as early as 2022. We do not have much time to ensure we have the post-18 education ecosystem needed to achieve this mammoth task. Neither universities nor colleges can do it alone. That is why University Alliance is calling on the next government to build a more integrated…

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  9. The DTA is International-Part 1

    September 5, 2019

    …ing research to cut across boarders and work together to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. In the first part of our DTA is International series, hear from some of the DTA’s current students on why the international element of the programme is so important: This programme has been extended following a €6.5million award from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND Doctoral scheme, opening it up specifically to international researchers….

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  10. Why we’re supporting the campaign for creative education

    August 19, 2019

    …universities and students, we believe the creative arts are fundamentally crucial to society as a whole. With celebrated artists from L.S. Lowry to Grayson Perry; multiple MOBO, Grammy, BAFTA and Brit award winners, and a former children’s laureate and current poet laureate among our members’ alumni, we know better than anyone the colossal cultural value of our creative arts sector. But we also see first-hand the economic and social effect of the…

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