We need to underpin a higher education sector that can drive the UK’s competitiveness in a global knowledge economy and can anticipate a new labour market shaped by rapid changes in technology, globalisation and increased economic uncertainty. This needs to be about more than just supporting school-leavers entering higher education as the current system does. […]
The UK cannot predict or plan for the future with any certainty. However, we do know that much is changing in the world around us: how we work, create, share and receive knowledge; how we deliver value; and how we connect to communities around the world. Our education system needs to adapt to this rapid […]
A new report sets out clear thinking and simple steps to enabling universal access to student loans for the first time while bringing down the massive cost of the current loans system. Summary report here Full report here Background evidence report here University Alliance, representing 22 leading global universities for science, technology, design and the […]
Alliance universities are enterprise universities. They lead the enterprise and entrepreneurship agenda with over 21,000 business links (including 14,000 SMEs) and 50% of all turnover and 40% of all jobs from UK graduate start-ups. So the review Lord Young has been undertaking is really important to us. We welcome many of the recommendations in Lord […]
University Alliance announce global search for new Chief Executive After five years of establishing and leading University Alliance to become a powerful and respected lobbying organisation Libby Hackett, Chief Executive, is moving on to take up an exciting opportunity with Perrett Laver, joining their Global Higher Education team. University Alliance has initiated a global search […]
University Alliance has responded to a consultation on the Catapult centres. This is the Hauser review of the Catapult networks entitled, ‘Medium term strategy for Catapult centres’. Read our response here.
Join us at the launch of… H.E.L.P. UK A new vision for funding higher education in the UK Thursday 26 June, 8.30am (arrival), 8.45am – 10.15am One Birdcage Walk, Westminster, London, SW1H 9JJ For every £1 the Government is spending on student loans, 45p will never be paid back. The result is billions of pounds […]
Growing up in Belfast during the 1970s and 1980s, I was the first person in my family to pass the 11+, to go to grammar school and then onto university. I am now a Partner at Deloitte, one of the biggest management consultancies in the UK. I work hard and enjoy what I do and […]
“In a report on improving quality assurance in higher education, University Alliance, which represents 22 mainly post-1992 universities, said more checks were needed on alternative providers, which are set to receive about £900 million in student support this year – a nine-fold increase on 2011-12.” University Alliance’s report, How do we ensure quality in an expanding […]
The higher education system in England is changing at an unprecedented rate. University Alliance is looking at how the higher education sector can best manage this mass of change. Read our report Our report considers what kind of quality assurance system is going to be fit for this more complex new world of expanding higher […]
