Commenting on UCAS End of Cycle 2016 provider-level equality data, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “Today’s institution-level statistics provide a useful evidence base, increasing transparency and highlighting where, alongside the great strides higher education has made in widening participation, there is still more work to be done. “While getting into university matters a […]
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has joined University Alliance, becoming the mission group’s newest member. University Alliance is a group of universities working together to shape higher education and research policy for the benefit of our students and business and civic partners – institutions which pride themselves on connections and partnerships with industry, employers […]
Responding to the Building the Industrial Strategy Green Paper, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “Alliance universities stand ready to deliver this industrial strategy. As providers of excellent technical and professional education, we deliver the high-level skills emerging sectors need. As hubs for innovation, we support thousands of firms to solve technical problems and develop new […]
Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell writes for Wonkhe about the government’s proposals in its Green Paper Schools that work for Everyone for universities to sponsor schools. Now that the consultation has closed, she is calling for policy makers to give serious consideration to what universities could and should do to improve schools. “The government has proposed that […]
Alliance Vice-Chancellors recently gave evidence to the Education Select Committee which held a special away-day session in Oxford on the impact of exiting the EU on universities. Professor John Latham, Chair of University Alliance and Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University, and Professor Alistair Fitt, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and the Alliance’s research lead, both shared their […]
Commenting on HESA’s statistical first release on student enrolments and qualifications published today, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “Whilst it is positive to see a rise in student numbers, the fall in the number of part-time students continues to be a concern. Making it easier for people to keep learning and gain new […]
We are delighted that so many staff and students from Alliance universities have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list. Our former Chair, Professor Steve West, received a CBE for services to Education. Steve, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), has been a proactive and tireless advocate for the sector […]
Commenting on government amendments to the Higher Education & Research Bill, University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “It is excellent news that the government has heeded University Alliance’s call for knowledge exchange activity to be explicitly recognised as part of Research England’s remit within UKRI. “This will ensure critical funding for business-led innovation activity. […]
Responding to the announcement that Professor Steve West, Vice-Chancellor of UWE Bristol and former UA Chair, will be awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell said: “We are very pleased that Steve’s long and distinguished record of service in higher education has been recognised with this […]
“Chernobyl” – to many this word evokes images of nuclear devastation, a post-apocalyptic world accentuated by the decaying remains of human settlement. Films, books and computer games have all drawn on this imagery, presenting the area as a lethally contaminated landscape, inhabited by mutants – the stuff of nightmares. So it is perhaps unsurprising that […]
