Commenting on the Social Mobility Commission State of the Nation 2017 report, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “The Social Mobility Commission is right to call for a comprehensive social mobility strategy aligned to the Industrial Strategy. Universities, working with partners across the education system and beyond, have a central role to play – […]
Times Higher Education’s coverage of the Industrial Strategy white paper highlighted the government’s pledge for a key role for universities in regional growth and commitment to increasing university-business collaboration funding. The piece also reaffirmed the government’s commitment to a “major review” of tertiary education funding. Our response to the white paper also features in the article. You […]
Commenting on the Industrial Strategy white paper, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “Alliance universities are key delivery partners for industrial strategy – spurring innovation, developing people with the high-level skills the economy needs and as key anchor institutions supporting place-based growth. “It is particularly welcome that today’s white paper signals a more strategic […]
Following the 2017 Budget, Tom Frostick, Policy & Programmes Manager (Research & Innovation) for University Alliance has written a blog for Research Fortnight. “It has been a big week for UK research, with a further £2.3 billion for R&D confirmed in the budget and the long-awaited decisions on staff selection, outputs and portability for the Research Excellence […]
HEFCE recently published final decisions on how the REF 2021 exercise will work. The publication confirms that all staff with significant responsibility for research must be entered into the REF, with higher-education institutions themselves largely identifying who that is. Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell was quoted in coverage of the announcement by Times Higher Education and Research […]
Our chief executive Maddalaine Ansell spoke to University Business to give her review of the past year in HE and what may lie in store for the sector in 2018. What lessons have we learned in 2017 that will help us prepare for the year ahead? Be proactive as well as reactive. We have had […]
Commenting on new Research Excellence Framework policy announcements, Maddalaine Ansell, Chief Executive of University Alliance, said: “Who should be submitted to the REF and which institutions get the credit for their publications were by far the thorniest questions of the consultation, and HEFCE and the other funding councils have come up with fair solutions to […]
University Alliance’s written evidence to the Science and Technology Committee’s Science Budget and Industrial Strategy inquiry has now been published. You can find the Committee’s Inquiry page here and read our written evidence.
As we’re nearing the end of the first year of operations for the Teaching Excellence Alliance (TEA) it’s timely to engage in a little reflection, look at developments to date and signal plans for the future. (About) time for TEA In recent years, even before the arrival of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), policymakers have […]
Maddalaine’s article was commissioned by the British Council for its Going Global publication, Building Nations, Connecting Cultures published in May 2017. Find out more about this publication here. Introduction The concept of the ‘anchor university’ is now well established in the UK. Many universities, particularly those with an explicitly civic mission, recognize themselves as anchor institutions […]
