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  1. Research Fortnight HE: Mission groups split on higher education bill

    UA chief executive Maddalaine Ansell spoke to Research Fortnight HE about the progress of the Higher Education and Research Bill for their article which highlighted sector concerns that recent political events mean it will not receive proper scrutiny in Parliament. She said that she thought the risks were overstated. MPs and Lords would “seriously and properly do their best […]

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  2. Summit 2016 – Leading the way in our cities and regions

    In June we were at Coventry University for our annual summit. It focused this year on exploring the role of our universities as leaders in their cities and regions, delivering the world-class teaching, research and employer engagement that makes the difference across the country. Neil Carmichael MP, Education Select Committee and Co-Chair, Sub Committee on […]

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  3. Awards for Alliance universities at THELMAS

    Nottingham Trent University took home the top prize in two categories at the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards (THELMAS) last night. The institution picked up the awards for Outstanding Procurement Team and Outstanding Digital Innovation in Management and Administration. The University of Huddersfield won the Outstanding Library Team category. Maddalaine Ansell, University Alliance […]

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  4. Minding the gender gap

    When I was at secondary school, we were told that an engineer was coming in to talk about their career. Several of my female classmates started moaning that this wasn’t fair – why would they have to sit through a boring talk by yet another man who they couldn’t relate to?  Some boys retorted that […]

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  5. Chief Executive UA Summit speech: Leading the way in our cities and regions

    Neil [Neil Carmichael MP*] has spoken about the skills and productivity challenge facing the UK.  There are aspects of it that Alliance Universities are particularly well-placed to meet. We are sometimes described as “new” universities.  But we are not new in the sense that we exist where before there was nothing.  We have a proud […]

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