…providing funds for micro-finance, delivering regional events and sharing best practice. Enterprising students and graduates may join the University’s new Enterprise and Innovation Centre—a ‘business-to-business-to-university’ facility for new start-ups, SMEs and corporates, and based on open innovation principles. 3. BioPark, University of Hertfordshire – When Roche Pharmaceuticals closed its research centre in Welwyn Garden City there were sign…
…cally graduates who have the attributes and qualities to adapt and perform best in this emerging innovation landscape. If you see higher education as a luxury good it would make perfect sense to limit or reduce the number of student places – an exclusive experience for the lucky, wealthy or very deserving few. But higher education is not a luxury good. It is a public good. The future labour market will need increasing numbers of graduates. As work…
…proposed for 2014 and there is general recognition that there is value in pursuing reform of the admissions system. However, it is not clear that the proposal for 2016 provides the best solution to the underlying issues highlighted in the Admissions Process Review (APR). Download the University Alliance response here….
…Teesside University has invested £270m on its campus to provide one of the best study environments in the UK. It includes the award-winning and innovative £22m teaching and learning building, The Curve as well as a new Campus Heart with living wall to provide a flexible and welcoming outdoor space. There has been considerable investment in STEM facilities and sports facilities and a £6m investment has also been made to create an innovative, state…
…f RDP supervision funding to quality (a threshold, or a quality weighting) best meets our aim of encouraging the supervision of students in higher-quality research environments? Why? Consultation question 3:If we used a quality score, as described in paragraph 22, to achieve differentiation by quality does a ratio of 1:2 seem appropriate? Consultation question 4: Do you consider that the value of an institution’s RDP grant relative to its mainstre…
…roductivity. Indeed it could have the effect of excluding some of the very best units. There are high-stakes in any of these arguments because sustaining and building the UK research base must be a central tenet of any strategy for growth in the UK economy. Without a system that ensures we fund a healthy and excellent research base, universities will struggle to compete in an increasingly well-funded global sector. Alliance institutions also drive…
…hod should give institutions the freedom to manage provision in a way that best responds to the needs of students, employers and society? Consultation question 3: Do you broadly agree that our funding method should enable us to incentivise change which is in the public interest? Consultation question 4: Do you broadly agree that we should achieve this through a ‘strategic margin’? Consultation question 5: Do you broadly agree that our funding meth…
…to introduce a Graduate Contribution Scheme. These proposals build on the best features of the existing student finance system whilst addressing the need for immediate reform in some areas. The Alliance report ‘Impact of Fees: a review of the evidence’, outlines the case for these proposals based on a thorough analysis of the current system. The broader issues for higher education funding (how to reach a sustainable funding position and the balan…
…unding, the principle of funding excellence wherever it exists remains the best policy to ensure the future health of the UK research base and the most efficient use of public investment.” “As major providers of professional and executive postgraduate qualifications, we welcome the recognition that postgraduate taught provision is a vital, thriving market with significant economic and social benefit to the UK. Alliance universities are committed t…
Funding the best research wherever it is found across the sector, rather than just in large research-intensive universities, is what has given the UK research base its international edge. This is the message from the University Alliance, the mission group representing 22 “research-engaged” institutions, presenting a new analysis that examines the relationship between quality and quantity in research excellence. Drawing on previous research and re…
