Over the past five years, since we established ourselves as a group, University Alliance has gone from strength to strength. It has united diverse and excellent universities, providing them with a collective voice and gaining a reputation as a powerful, constructive and positive group in the UK and abroad, not only for our universities but […]
University Alliance welcomes the report by Universities UK, International Students in higher education: the UK and its competition. Professor Steve West, Chair of University Alliance, said: “In addition to removing international students from the net migration target, the government needs to reintroduce the two year post-study work visas for all graduates from UK universities. It […]
The UK’s rich and diverse ecosystem of world-leading research and innovation is a key driver of growth and productivity. At the heart of this, and underpinning the Industrial Strategy, sits a world class research base. University Alliance has collaborated with the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) and Innovate UK on a joint booklet […]
A feature by Times Higher Education looking at how post-graduate funding can be fixed, references our HELP proposals launched earlier this year. HELP is a new higher education loan programme which would help every student cover the cost of studying. “Then, in June this year, the University Alliance proposed an Australian-style scheme called HELP UK […]
Professor Steve West, Chair of University Alliance, is featured in coverage in the Guardian about the Higher Education Policy Institute’s new guide on the removal of student number controls. Professor Steve West, chair of the University Alliance group, which includes Coventry University and Cardiff Metropolitan University, said that government funding should be linked to student retention rates, and […]
University Alliance responds to a guide by HEPI on the removal of student number controls, and the impact this may have on our higher education sector. On the issue of quality, Professor Steve West, Chair of University Alliance, said: “The reputation of the UK’s higher education sector lives and dies on its quality, particularly at […]
University Alliance is delighted to be co-sponsoring a Higher Education debate with Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, the Shadow Universities Minister, at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester this year. The Social Market Foundation event Robbins Rebooted: The Future of Higher Education will take place on Tuesday 23 September 2014, 17.30 – 19.00. The 1963 […]
University Alliance features in a story by BBC News Online about the 2014 World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education magazine – and their new “formula” for top universities. University Alliance responded to say that using the rankings as a “roadmap” risked missing “the breadth of routes to delivering world-class research and graduates”. “The […]
Read University Alliance’s response here to the BIS Science & Innovation Strategy Survey.
It has probably not escaped the notice of many who work in our field that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is due to announce a 10 year plan for UK Science and Innovation as part of his Autumn Statement. Today marks the formal end of an extensive consultation exercise and is a timely opportunity to […]
