In an evacuation, every second counts. Whatever the situation, from a fire to a terrorist attack, people need to find the best route to safety as quickly as possible. However, many of today’s signage systems lack the ability to respond to a rapidly changing, threatening environment, or even to be seen by the people they […]
Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell writes for the Guardian on lifelong learning, which highlights the need to consider the learning and training needs of those already in the workplace. Politicians are beginning to take notice of this issue – but as Maddalaine writes, “…why not introduce lifetime learning accounts for everyone? As with further and higher […]
The Higher Education show is the largest free-to-attend conference and exhibition for higher education professionals. Only for one day 1000 key decisions makers from HE institutions join 30+ senior speakers and 70+ suppliers to examine strategies to ensure the UK Higher Education remains competitive and appealing at a national and internal level. Key agenda […]
Coverage of our report Supporting thriving communities: The role of universities in reducing inequality has featured in University Business. You can read the full story here. Download a copy of the report to find out more about how universities reduce inequality in their cities and regions.
Follow this link for case studies from Alliance institutions The government’s ambitions for higher education to improve life chances will only be met if university leaders make tackling inequality a core part of their mission, argues a report published by University Alliance today. Last month, the Social Market Foundation published a report on widening participation […]
A festival set up by a Huddersfield University academic nearly 40 years ago has grown to become the UK’s largest annual, international celebration of new and experimental music – and at the same time provide a wide range of cultural opportunities for the local community. The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) was initiated by the […]
A ‘whole life-cycle’ approach cuts through Nottingham Trent University’s outreach work to widen participation in schools, colleges and the local community. The university’s outreach programme encompasses more than 700 activities – including placing more than 300 students in schools to provide pupil support through its Students in Classrooms (SiC) Scheme reaching 30,000+ pupils, from primary school […]
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is committed to helping young people progress into the competitive creative industries by offering paid internship schemes for young people (16-24) to gain critical work experience employers demand. The university led two large consortia bids to secure funding for more than 150 paid internships and a […]
Students, staff and recent graduates of Oxford Brookes University interested in social entrepreneurship or social innovation or who wish to set up and run a social enterprise can turn to the university’s award-winning programme to help get their ideas off the ground. The Oxford Brookes Social Entrepreneur Awards (OBSEA) provides the resources, networks, confidence and funding that […]
While 14% of the UK population is identified as BME, only 7.4% of paramedics are from BME groups. Nationally just 3.4% of those currently studying to become a paramedic are from a BME background. In March 2015 Health Education East Midlands (HEEM) commissioned both Sheffield Hallam University and Northampton University to launch a project to […]