University Alliance has submitted its response to the Office for Students’ (OfS) call for evidence on regional access partnerships. As a mission group representing professional and technical universities with deep roots in their local communities, our members are committed to widening access to higher education and addressing regional disparities in educational opportunity. Our response draws […]
The Social Market Foundation’s ‘Skills Sidelined’ report has called on the government to back universities providing high-level skills provision to plug skills shortages.
University Alliance has responded to the consultation on ‘Improving the way Ofsted inspects education’. In our response we: Read UA’s response to the ‘Improving the way Ofsted inspects education’ consultation.
This briefing examines the drivers behind growth in the number of international students studying at Alliance universities in recent years, and the decline we have seen since 2023.
On 4 November 2024, the Secretary of State for Education made a statement to the House of Commons outlining plans for an inflationary increase in higher education tuition fees and student maintenance loans. In the same statement, she set out her priorities for higher education reform. These were reiterated in a letter to the sector […]
University Alliance have submitted their response to the Office for Students strategy consultation for the years 2025 – 2030. Find the full submission here. Overview of the response Whilst University Alliance supports many of the priorities set out in the proposed strategy, wewere dismayed to see a lack of focus on cutting the cost and […]
University Alliance has made its submission to the Treasury ahead of this year’s Spending Review. The submission highlights how professional and technical universities are critical to delivering the government’s decade of renewal, and focuses on three of the government’s missions: kickstarting economic growth, building an NHS fit for the future and breaking down the barriers […]
University Alliance (UA) and the University of Derby have jointly published a comprehensive report that explores the current enablers of and barriers to delivering healthcare apprenticeships.
University Alliance has made a submission to the ‘Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future’ consultation, as part of a national conversation to develop the 10 Year Health Plan for England. UA’s policy proposals include: Read UA’s full submission here.
Our consultation response focuses on how professional and technical universities contributeto many of the cross-cutting enablers of a pro-business environment identified in the greenpaper and how these can be optimised through government policy. Growth driving sectorsWe argue the government should seize the opportunity to utilise the whole higher educationsector to deliver the Industrial Strategy, Sector […]