There has been a growing interest in ‘social mobility’ in the last 10 years or so but there is a lot of confusion about what it actually means. For one thing most people, when talking about social mobility, actually only mean UPWARD mobility but of course if groups and individuals are mobile they could move […]
University Alliance’s report, ‘Closing the Gap: unlocking opportunity through higher education’, features in a Times Higher Education article. The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”. That is the argument set out by the University Alliance, a mission […]
Article originally published on wonkhe. Growing up, I was acutely aware of the importance my family placed on education, despite my parents having left school without qualifications. They told me that education was the way to achieve a better future than they had been able to. The life experiences that I gained during my time […]
University Alliance believe that the social mobility debate in the UK needs a new focus. Higher education is a critical engine of social mobility. The added value delivered by universities, such as Alliance universities, which accept students from a diverse range of backgrounds and achieve some of the highest graduate employment rates, is a great […]
A new study from University Alliance shows that focusing solely on access to a certain group of universities based on historical prejudice risks stalling social mobility in Britain. The report, Closing the gap: Unlocking opportunity through higher education, finds that the debate on social mobility and higher education in the UK has been too focused […]
University Alliance is working in partnership with educators, industry and government to increase participation in STEM subjects, especially among women. Our pledge announced on 7 May aims to support a change in how women and girls are encouraged to consider technology and engineering careers and the subject choices or vocational pathways that lead to them. […]
Article originally published on The Conversation. Creative ideas and how we turn them into successful business ventures and social enterprises are vital to the UK’s global competitiveness. But how do we best support this? Of course there are many different ways to start a business. But I strongly challenge those who say point blank that […]
We have submitted our response to the Commons Review on Business-University collaboration and are delighted to represent the innovative and market-leading work of Alliance universities. In the UK’s global, knowledge-based economy, where 80% of new jobs are in high-skill areas and new and growth industries take a high-tech, high-skill and innovative approach, Alliance universities are […]
The Australian government should consider funding universities on the basis of student retention rather than enrolments, a new UK report has said. The UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute has published a report by Libby Hackett, the chief executive of University Alliance, comparing the UK system with that of Australia. While focused on what the UK can […]
You are unlikely to ever find a perfect policy in another country that you can implement in your own nation unchanged. In the improbable event that another nation has found the ideal policy for them, it may well not work so well for you because the wider environment in which a policy is implemented matters. […]
