We are now well into a new academic year. There have been many changes since pre-Covid times: higher education institutions are now delivering more of their teaching online, and actively embracing the opportunities created by technology to transform student learning.
We sat down with Baroness Valerie Amos to discuss her career, her reflections on #ClosingTheGap, and the work she's been doing to combat racial inequality.
Concordats are agreed sets of expectations for the conditions under which research and innovation happen. We contribute to concordats and help government and universities implement them.
Professor Julia Buckingham CBE, Vice-Chancellor and President of Brunel University London, makes the case for the importance of the Researcher Development Concordat.
Try as I might, it's been hard to track progress at COP26 from home, attempting to follow things, to get to grip with what happens in the various ‘zones’, the sheer number of topics being addressed, the negotiations, the daily announcements. What constitutes a meaningful commitment and what is simply spin?
Today’s (04 November 2021) Universities UK’s Transnational education conference saw the announcement of a new UK University Overseas Campuses Network, bringing together an initial membership of 17 UK universities with 27 campuses located in 17 countries across the world.
The biggest announcement for universities was the government’s plans to invest in research and innovation (R&I). But what does this mean for universities?