Emily Commander
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Emily Commander18 February 2022
Living with fewer restrictions
Covid Free lateral flow testing is set to end this week on campus in England. In a communication earlier this week, it was announced that universities will no longer be authorised to distribute free lateral flow test packs. A formal...
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Emily Commander11 February 2022
Thinking international and levelling up at home
International collaboration Organisations across Europe call for science to be put above politics. UUK has partnered with the Royal Society, Wellcome, EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the ETH Board to launch the Stick to Science campaign, which argues that the UK...
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Emily Commander3 February 2022
It's all about levelling up
Levelling up On Wednesday, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove unveiled the government’s flagship Levelling Up White Paper, including the national mission on research and development (R&D), which will undertake to increase public investment in R&D outside the greater south east...
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Emily Commander28 January 2022
Ensuring quality in Semester 2
Covid Following the government’s lifting of Plan B measures, the University has set out its plans for operating during Semester 2. The guidance on working from home has been lifted and in person meetings can resume. The Governance team will...
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Emily Commander21 January 2022
Quality, red tape and discipline
Covid The Department for Education has updated its Covid-19 guidance for higher education in light of the government’s lifting of Plan B measures this week. The guidance on working home has been lifted, and the guidance on face coverings in...
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Emily Commander2 July 2021
Essay mills and immigration woes
COVID There is some frustration this week with the continuing uncertainty surrounding provision for students arriving from red list countries at the start of the coming academic year. Meanwhile, the Immigration Minister announced that the government would extend the Covid...
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Emily Commander25 June 2021
Access barriers and worrying sector survey results
ACCESS, WIDENING PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION A report by the Sutton Trust has found that access to postgraduate courses by students from working class backgrounds has improved, with the proportion of working class graduates progressing to taught masters doubling from 6%...
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Emily Commander18 June 2021
Pensions, student mental health and disability, and cheating
FINANCE Universities UK (UUK) has published a brief summary of its responses to its consultation on the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) pension – broadly speaking universities have backed a plan to make the scheme less generous by reducing the defined...
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Emily Commander11 June 2021
Increased knowledge exchange but falling employment rates
STUDENT OUTCOMES The Department for Education has published data on graduate, postgraduate and non-graduate employment rates and earnings in England. The graduate employment rate has fallen to 86.4%, with the postgraduate rate falling to 88.2%, although the median graduate salary...
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Emily Commander28 May 2021
Minimum standards and learning credits
COVID A recent UPP survey has found that students want to see prioritisation of a return to in-person teaching and are missing the face-to-face elements of the wider student experience. Meanwhile, data released by the Office for National Statistics (OfS)...