Innovating Future Business is an enterprise competition encouraging innovative, forward-thinking business ideas, open to students from Alliance universities. With over 1,000 graduate start-ups coming from Alliance graduates each year, supporting student enterprise is a core part of what Alliance universities do. Equipping students with an ethos of entrepreneurship is essential for facing challenges within a global labour […]
In January, the Government published the Building our Industrial Strategy green paper to address long-term challenges to the UK economy. University Alliance has responded to the consultation on the proposals contained within the paper. You can read our full response here or by clicking on the image (right). We are preparing a report to showcase the […]
Ahead of the General Election on 8 June, University Alliance sets out higher education and research priorities for the next government. Support excellent technical and professional education at all levels In line with the objectives of a UK-wide industrial strategy, universities play a crucial role in providing people with the academic, technical and professional skills […]
Commenting on Whither Teacher Education and Training? published by HEPI, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “The recruitment and retention of high quality teachers is essential if we want schools that work for everyone. This report recognises the central role universities play in providing trainee teachers with the knowledge, skills and experience to succeed. […]
UA work on the future of EU structural funds has been featured in a Telegraph article focusing on a report published by the Education Select Committee on the impact of leaving the EU. The report, Exiting the EU: challenges and opportunities for higher education, was published following an inquiry by the Education Committee earlier this year. […]
Commenting on the Education Select Committee report Exiting the EU: challenges and opportunities for higher education, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “Last week’s announcement on funding for EU students starting courses next year is very welcome. We need similar certainty that EU staff will be able to continue to work at UK universities […]
Recently, students on our Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) programme travelled from their home institutions across the UK to London. The DTA Energy researchers headed to the Energy Institute, before touring the King’s Cross Energy Centre and local combined heat and power plant, where they learned about energy efficient solutions to supplying electricity, hot water and […]
Policy and Programmes Manager at University Alliance, Tom Frostick, writes on HEFCE’s consultation on The second Research Excellence Framework. Tom outlines the main recommendations in University Alliance’s response to the consultation. “The recommendation provoked a strong response from the sector but two warnings in particular stood out. First, since not everyone with research in their […]
Do you have a great business idea you want to share with the world? Before you go shouting about it from the rooftops, ensure that you maximise the opportunity by presenting it right. Pitching is an important skill to develop, whether you are selling your business idea to potential investors or offering solutions to problems […]
How often when you have a headache do you reach for the aspirin bottle lurking at the back of your bathroom medicine cabinet? Aspirin was originally derived from the bark of the willow tree. It was probably the Ancient Greeks two and a half thousand years ago, who first recognised the use of natural salicylates […]
