Universities are often accused of not moving with the times. I don’t necessarily disagree with that criticism – it can be challenging being nimble when you’re very big and tied up in regulation – but it isn’t a criticism that sits well with me. So many of our universities are at the forefront of research […]
Design is a historically and culturally situated practice. It has meant different things, to different people throughout history, and so when questioning what role design plays in the educational disciplines and activities of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), it is perhaps worth retracing the formalization of design as an educational discipline. Whilst there is […]
University Alliance will be running an event at the British Council Going Global 2013 conference in Dubai looking at how UK universities are equipping global graduates and the future of HE – full details below. 5 March 2013 in Dubai. “Growing global graduates: UK universities equipping graduates for the future” will explore the impact of […]
Our university_vision project has had a write-up in the Times Higher, saying: “…University Alliance of “business-engaged” universities is taking a novel approach, producing a cartoon envisaging four different scenarios for university futures, which it plans to use in lobbying politicians and around the country.” Read the full article here.
Today we are excited to be launching our new animation and booklet looking at the future of universities in the UK. Over the past year, as part of our university_vision project, we have been working with experts from right across the sector as well as with industry partners to explore four extreme, but credible, scenarios […]
A new study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that the flagship National Scholarship Programme (NSP) is unlikely to encourage youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter higher education. The NSP was introduced following the decision to increase fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year. In response to the study, University Alliance responded said, […]
Plymouth University are celebrating their 150 anniversary of its Victoria-era founding as a School of Navigation. The institution, which was granted university status in the government’s reforms to the sector in 1992, can trace its lineage back to 1862 when John Merryfield established the school to provide vital training and education to mariners in the […]
Following the success of last year’s contest we are once again running a design competition for the cover of our Christmas card to be sent to our key stakeholders. If you would like to take part in the competition, or to advertise it to those who might, please either link to this page or send […]
I have recently returned from my first ever Party Conference season and I wanted to share with you the points I made at the events we ran there. More about what we did at each Conference can be found here. There have been many debates and discussions about the recent changes to the student finance […]
We have just returned from a busy three weeks of Party Conferences. We ran a series of fringe events on ‘the future of higher education’ and held a number of meetings with parliamentarians from all three parties. Our fringe events were run in partnership with NUS, GuildHE, IPPR and Policy Exchange and each saw a […]
