Making the difference.

Maddalaine Ansell, Chief ExecutiveUniversity Alliance

Source: HESA HE Statistics for UK 2013/14 and HEBCI 2012/13

University Alliance – who we are

19 universities

430k students (19% total)

21% of all UG students on STEM courses

43% of all sandwich courses

89%Employed or in further study 6 mths after leaving

71%growth in 3* and 4* research from 2009-2015

31% graduate start-up turnover and jobs

“Comprehensive communities organised to serve their wide range of students and the growing needs of industry”

University Alliance – proud of our past

“We are all polytechnics now”

(Toby Weaver, 1964)

(Peter Scott, 2012)

University Alliance – Making the Difference.

     

   

Strongly engaged with Industry & ProfessionsLinks and connections

that count

Leaders in cities and regions

Committed to fostering local strategies for

growth

Internationally connected

Proactive and receptive in the global marketplace

Researchwith impact

Research that makes the difference

High Quality TeachingPreparing students for a career in industry and

the professions

Professional Passionate

EngagedCommittedConnected

University Alliance – Making the difference.

     

   

Strongly engaged with Industry & ProfessionsLinks and connections

that count

Leaders in cities and regions

Committed to fostering local strategies for

growth

Internationally connected

Proactive and receptive in the global marketplace

Researchwith Impact

Research that makes the difference

High Quality TeachingPreparing students for a career in industry and

the professions

Professional Passionate

Engaged

Committed

Connected

High quality teaching

"...fostering quality teaching presents higher education institutions with a range of challenges at a time when the higher education sector is coming under pressure from many different directions."

(Fabrice Hénard and Deborah Roseveare, OECD,

2012)

Limnoria – the wood-eating gribble, University of PortsmouthPhoto by PhD student Laura Michie

Wave tank, Plymouth University

Research with Impact

“We therefore wish you to continue selectively tofund world-leading and internationally excellent research wherever it is found.” (Rt Hon Vince Cable MP,

grant letter to Hefce,2015)

RAE 2008 REF 2014 % Change0

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Research Power between '08 and '14

University Alliance Pre-92 Universities

Engaged with industry and the professions

“It is important for us a a global business that we have universities of the calibre of the University of South Wales within the area to support our business and the whole of the Welsh economy”

(Rhys Williams – GE Aviation)

Leaders in cities and regions

“We need our education system to support every single young person with their individual needs, not just to pass exams, but to become rounded and grounded people who can get on outside the school gates.”

John Cridland, CBI

(Joanna Newman – Judge of Time Higher

International Collaboration Awards )

“This project was really impressive in its scale – transforming the lives of 90,000 subsistence farmers….truly an international collaboration”

Internationally connected

NameJob title, University Alliance

“We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward."

(Barack Obama, 2009)

Looking to the future

The Liverpool Telescope, Liverpool John Moores University

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