Our universities generate growth and opportunity across the UK. They bring jobs, investment and facilities to our local communities, and will be at the heart of addressing economic and social disparities. But to do more, we need the government to work with universities.
Universities across the UK are today insisting they can play a bigger role in generating economic growth and are calling on the new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and his government, to create the conditions to accomplish this in a new report.
How does it feel to be one of the UK’s first Black vice-chancellors? We asked Professor Charles Egbu, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University, about racial inequality in higher education and his own journey from undergraduate to university leader.
A new practice note will today be published by Universities UK to help universities prepare, ahead of the start of the academic year, for any reported spiking incidents.