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Response25 Feb 2025

Consultation on OfS strategy for 2025 to 2030 response

The Office for Students has consulted on its new strategy for 2025-30 to sets out a sharper purpose for the regulator. It seeks to ensure that students from all backgrounds benefit from high quality higher education, delivered by a diverse, sustainable sector that continues to improve.

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Response07 Feb 2025

Spending Review 2025 – Phase 2 submission

MillionPlus, The Association for Modern Universities, welcomes the opportunity to contribute a written representation to the Spending Review with policy recommendations that will play a crucial role in driving forward key Government missions, including economic growth and opportunity.

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Report04 Feb 2025

Think Modern facts and stats

Modern universities make up over half of the UK’s higher education sector, educating over a million students a year. These universities are powerhouses for and are anchored in their communities across the length and breadth of the UK.

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Case study17 Dec 2024
University of Staffordshire

Teacher trainee mentor development at the University of Staffordshire

Like all Initial Teacher Education/Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers, the University of Staffordshire is required to establish a professional network of well-trained and expert mentors to meet the 2024 mentoring requirements. Teacher trainee mentor development is a type of training where a more experienced teacher, provides support and guidance to a less experienced teacher to help them improve their teaching and advance their career.

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Response09 Dec 2024

Invest 2035: the UK’s modern industrial strategy – submission

MillionPlus, The Association for Modern Universities, has responded to the Invest 2035: the UK's modern industrial strategy consultation, the UK Government’s proposed 10-year plan for the economy.

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Response28 Oct 2024

MillionPlus Budget submission 2024

The sector currently faces a challenging financial environment with funding per student in England having fallen over the last decade. While the solutions MillionPlus is suggesting in this submission will be shorter-term solutions, a sustainable funding model is imperative for the higher education sector, and MillionPlus calls on the Government to urgently establish a Taskforce to support this.

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Report14 Jul 2024

New Government, new start

Working together, universities and the new Labour Government can deliver for Britain. MillionPlus outlines six quick wins the Government could take to support students and boost universities.

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Report17 Jun 2024

Building a Modern Britain – manifesto for teacher education, recruitment and retention

Modern universities have a long history of teacher education, and despite a diversification of routes into teaching in recent years, these institutions continue to be at the forefront of the field, both in terms of research into pedagogy and the practice of initial teacher training and education.

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