Improving social mobility

UK universities have made significant progress in widening access for underrepresented and disadvantaged students. We're raising awareness of the transformational work our members do to open up higher education to everyone.

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23 February 2024 Publications

23 February 2024 Publications

Opportunity and growth: a manifesto from ��ɫֱ��

The UK’s universities are a success story and one of the UK’s greatest assets. We’re calling on political parties to commit to policies in their manifestos to help our universities continue to transform lives.
21 February 2024 Insights and analysis

21 February 2024 Insights and analysis

Why are art therapy degree apprenticeships valuable?

We spoke with art therapist Tim Wright, previous chair of British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and co-chair of the group that started the new art therapy course at Teesside University, about why degree apprenticeships are valuable to students and employers.
16 February 2024 Explainer

16 February 2024 Explainer

How can we improve access to healthcare careers?

Many young people are motivated by a career in healthcare but are being put off. Emma Dodsworth from the Nuffield Trust explains why young people aren’t going into healthcare degrees and how the NHS, education leaders and the government can work together to deliver the NHS workforce of the future.
1 February 2024 ��ɫֱ��i blog

1 February 2024 ��ɫֱ��i blog

How the University of Westminster is expanding global opportunities for students

The University of Westminster explain their institution's approach to expanding global opportunities to all students.
16 January 2024 ��ɫֱ��i publications

16 January 2024 ��ɫֱ��i publications

Internationalisation at Home (IaH): an introductory handbook

This handbook has been created with the aim of providing a resource that can assist colleagues involved with Internationalisation at Home (IaH) activities in university contexts. It also has an accompanying infographic for download.
19 December 2023 ��ɫֱ��i blog

19 December 2023 ��ɫֱ��i blog

Internationalisation at home (IaH) at Global Mobility 2024

Dr Anthony Manning and Emma Marku, University of Kent, discuss the importance of opening up international opportunities.
3 March 2023 Podcasts

3 March 2023 Podcasts

Podcast: First in my family

What's it like to go to university when you're the first in your family?
26 October 2022 Opinion

26 October 2022 Opinion

To kickstart growth in left-behind areas, we need to empower universities

The UK is facing crisis. To build a strategic response, the government must embed universities at the centre of local and national growth strategy.
26 October 2022 Publications

26 October 2022 Publications

Our universities: generating growth and opportunity

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.
24 October 2022 Media releases

24 October 2022 Media releases

Universities suggest ways of sparking growth across the UK

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.
20 October 2022 Interview

20 October 2022 Interview

In conversation with: Professor Charles Egbu

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.
21 July 2022 Publications

21 July 2022 Publications

Closing the gap: three years on

What progress have universities made so far on ethnicity degree awarding gaps, and what more do they need to do?

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