Monday 5 October, 17.45 – 19.00 Manchester Central Library We have joined forces with Bright Blue and GuildHE to organise a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference with the theme: “University: is it worth it?” The event will explore whether universities provide value for money in relation to students, government and the wider economy.Speakers include: Jo Johnson […]
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a write up of our event ‘Building the Teaching Excellence Framework‘ on their website. “The University Alliance hosted a stimulating event to discuss the threats and opportunities of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) earlier today. Not only were there platform speeches from senior people from HEFCE, BIS, Coventry […]
University Alliance’s Treasurer and Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University, Professor Edward Peck, recently wrote a blog for Wonkhe focusing on the need to find new ways to measure graduate success. These issues were explored at a University Alliance roundtable that Professor Peck chaired in July which brought together colleagues from the civil service, employers, the HE […]
An extensive look at how the proposed TEF might work by Dame Julia King in Times Higher Education. The piece features substantial comments from Quintar McKellar, VC of University of Hertsfordshire and Chris Rust, professor of higher education at Oxford Brookes University – two University Alliance member institutions. It also adds on “What of the […]
Date: 13 October 2015 Time: 4.30-6.30pm Venue: Strangers’ Dining Room, House of Commons, London University Alliance with University of Lincoln invites you to a parliamentary reception hosted by Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary University Group. We will be launching a major new research report exploring the emergence of […]
University Alliance welcomes the Government’s Productivity Plan, unveiled by the Business Secretary Sajid Javid today. Maddalaine Ansell, chief executive of University Alliance – Britain’s universities for cities and regions – said: “We welcome the Government’s Productivity Plan which recognises the important role universities play in securing the UK’s future success. Alliance universities have a long history of […]
University Alliance’s Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell has featured in a story by the Daily Mail into the Budget measures announced by George Osborne earlier this week. The Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed a number of announcements for higher education, including the news that tuition fees will be allowed to rise above £9000 at universities which offer […]
BBC News Online’s coverage of the Budget’s announcement that student maintenance grants would be replaced by loans included our response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer‘s measures. Responding to the tuition fee changes, Maddalaine Ansell, chief executive of University Alliance, said: “Linking tuition fees to inflation is essential if our universities are to offer world […]
Our response to the Chancellor’s Budget announcements for Higher Education was picked up in Times Higher Education‘s coverage. Mr Osborne announced that universities with “high-quality teaching” will be allowed to raise tuition fees in line with inflation from 2017-18. The chancellor also confirmed in the Budget that student maintenance grants will be scrapped and switched to […]
Maddalaine Ansell, chief executive of University Alliance – Britain’s universities for cities and regions – said in response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Emergency Budget today: “We are pleased that this budget recognises the value of our universities and seeks to put their funding on a sustainable footing for the benefit of both our […]
