…For this, we encourage you to make good on your commitment to improve post-study work visas. Our university system is world-class and the envy of the world. It educates and has educated the world’s greatest leaders including of course you and almost every politician, across every party. It has enabled some of the world’s greatest brains and creative talents to thrive and inspire the world over. But it’s important to remember that this talent come…
…length and breadth of the UK, meeting our members and exploring their world-class facilities. The summit this week, however, was my first opportunity to bring them all together in one space. It was fantastic to witness this concentration of the drive and enthusiasm of staff across our membership and it reminded me why I am fortunate to have returned to higher education, and to work with Alliance Universities. As well as bringing together and harne…
…laims of NHS, local authorities, schools, prisons, police and welfare. It puts the onus on us to show we get full value for money out of every penny of taxpayers’ money and can be trusted to invest wisely. And it means, hand-in-hand with colleges, we make a stronger case on national priorities: widening access; protecting standards; expanding skills and tech-ed; and investing in nurse and teacher training. There is much work ahead for us all….
…y tick-box exercise but actually strengthens teaching and learning. We need to stop TEF suffering mission creep by constantly trying to be all things, to all people. “We urge ministers to pause and review the introduction of the subject-level TEF, not ploughing on regardless. It would be wise to fix the current flaws before extending it to tens of thousands of courses nationally. These changes are essential if the scheme is to remain in the public…
…support these areas, which include but are not limited to: Co-creation/ Co-production Cutting-edge technical and professional curricula co-created with our students, employers, community groups and service users; Immersive learning and assessment Progressive and innovative pedagogies which integrate live, employer-relevant challenges for learning and assessment with input from employers, community groups and service users, using real world enviro…
…mplementation groups. C. CPD product offers ProductDetails Webinars An easy-to-access and flexible format to support members working on specific areas of challenge. The TEA-CPD network held its first Open Webinar on 14th February with 33 participants discussing the implementation and implications of the Academic Professional Apprenticeship. A recording of the webinar is available on the Basecamp CPD site and will be updated with further resources…
…nd encourage a D/PVC to lead and champion each of the themes to support buy-in/ engagement of the TEA Management Group and to get more recognition for what we are doing. For each theme we suggest forming action learning sets who will participate in three half-day meetings over a 6 – 9 month period: Meeting 1 Looking at experiences, sharing the challenges, information gathering (including bringing in UK / global experts e.g. relevant individuals fr…
Universities and colleges have until tomorrow to decide whether to accept the emergency extra student places they have been allocated. Earlier this month, the government announced 10,000 extra student numbers after warnings that universities would be unable to cater for the record 10% increase in applications during the recession. The government will provide only grants and loans for the extra students, and not funding to universities to teach th…
