A year ago academics from across Alliance universities assembled in London to embark on an exciting new journey together. The Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) – the largest doctoral training partnership in the country – aimed to produce independent, highly-employable researchers to meet the demands of modern industry and other employers. Our first programme is in […]
On the first anniversary of launching its Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) programme, University Alliance is teaming up with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) on a major new collaboration to provide work placements. The announcement comes as University Alliance launches its second DTA in Energy in October 2016, connecting students and staff from 12 Alliance institutions, […]
Times Higher Education‘s coverage of the Government’s new TEF measures reveals that England’s new assessment of university teaching will award institutions with ratings of “bronze”, “silver” and “gold”. The article also featured comment from Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell. You can read our full response to the Government’s publication of how the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) trial year […]
Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell was quoted in a Guardian article following the Government’s publication of details of how the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) trial year will work. Read our full response to the Government’s announcement here.
We responded to Business, Innovation and Skills Committee’s inquiry looking at the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine. This focussed on whether the Government’s devolved arrangements can deliver improved economic growth and examine if the models for devolved decision-making and co-operation on areas such as skills, science, innovation and R&D are delivering economic growth and whether […]
Responding to the announcement today of full details of how the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) trial year will work, University Alliance urges the government to carry out a full evaluation of the trial year and keep an open mind about changing the scheme in future years based on the findings. Alliance institutions welcome the new […]
The University of Brighton has joined University Alliance. University Alliance is a group of modern civic universities working together to shape higher education and research policy for the benefit of our students and business and civic partners. With over 20,000 students studying across five campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, the University of Brighton is […]
Collaborative research on Teaching Age and Discrimination in Mental Health Nursing Two mental health nursing lecturers and three mental health student nurses at the University of Salford have been working as co-researchers on a project to investigate the extent to which a teaching session about age and discrimination contributes to changing attitudes to working with […]
Research-Based Learning module The University of Portsmouth wanted to use a specific unit to develop transferable skills in students (teamwork, problem solving, communication skills). However, this was not proving effective. For example, in the team work exercises students tended to work alone and pull their efforts together at the end rather than working together as a […]
Student as Producer The University of Lincoln’s Student as Producer initiative aims to reconnect universities’ core activities of teaching and research by encouraging students at all levels to view themselves as active producers of knowledge. Originally an HEA-funded project, this principle of research-engaged teaching, as a development of research-informed teaching, has become the organising principle […]