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University Alliance response to the HEFCE consultation on student number controls and teaching funding for 2013-14 and beyond. Download our response here.

Libby Hackett, Director of University Alliance, comments on the Government’s response to the Higher Education White Paper, “Students at the Heart of the System”, “We cautiously welcome the Government’s promises to put in place a level playing field for for-profit providers and bring them within the regulatory controls for institutions receiving public funding. Our greater concerns are about […]

Alliance university Chancellors have joined the call to the prime minister urging his government to support the UK’s universities in their efforts to recruit genuine international students. Libby Hackett, director of University Alliance, said: “We give our strong and unequivocal support to this letter and the constructive solution it offers to the Prime Minister. This […]

We humans like putting things in order.  From an early age we are taught that all things have a place.  When we are faced with complex problems, we seek to create schemas and organise findings in a way that will aid our understanding.  This is all well and good except that sometimes this approach is […]

Higher education is going through massive change at the moment, as is the country. So much focus is on dealing with the here and now, which is obviously critical, but there is not enough thinking about what the future is going to be for our universities. Politicians have got themselves locked into a cycle of worrying […]

Set against a backdrop of a global recession and an uncertain future political and economic landscape, UK higher education’s role in knowledge exchange remains a critical part of the innovation ecosystem, on which lies many policymakers’ hopes for future long-term growth and economic recovery. “HEIF is one of only a few funds that can be […]

The government has made changes to the number of ‘core-and-margin’ places that will be open to bids in 2013. Commenting on the changes, Libby Hackett, director of the University Alliance, said that 60 to 70 per cent of students at University Alliance institutions were on professionally accredited courses, for which demand would be “relatively stable”. […]

Judith Burns (BBC) reports on the changes being made to student places for 2013-14. Speaking to the BBC, Libby Hackett Director of University Alliance, said “the changes announced today are a step in the right direction, increasing our ability to place students at the ‘heart of the system’”. But Ms Hackett added that changes in […]

In response to the announcement from BIS of changes to the allocation of university places Libby Hackett, Director of University Alliance, said: “The changes announced today are a step in the right direction, increasing our ability to place students at the ‘heart of the system’.  These changes will create more flexibility for students to apply […]

Apeldoorn Conference: From Sunday 11 to Tuesday 13 March 2012, one hundred delegates from the UK and the Netherlands came together in Manchester to share ideas on how higher education institutions can work better with business and government to promote growth and create jobs during this time of economic uncertainty in Europe. For the UK […]