The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath,England. It received its royal charter in 1966,along with a number of other institutions following the Robbins Report. Like the University of Bristol and University of the West of England,Bath can trace its roots to the Merchant Venturers' Technical College,established in Bristol as a school in 1595 by the Society of Merchant Venturers. The university's main campus is located on Claverton Down,a site overlooking the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath,and was purpose-built,constructed from 1964 in the modernist style of the times.
The Open University (OU) is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus;many of its courses can also be studied anywhere in the world. There are also a number of full-time postgraduate research students based on the 45 hectares university campus at Walton Hall,Milton Keynes,Buckinghamshire,where they use the staff facilities for research,as well as more than 1,000 members of academic and research staff and over 2,500 administrative,operational and support staff.
Birkbeck,University of London,is a research university located in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London,England,and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute by its founder Sir George Birkbeck and its supporters- Jeremy Bentham,J. C. Hobhouse and Henry Brougham- Birkbeck is one of the few universities to specialise in evening higher education in the United Kingdom.
The University of Chester is a public university located in Chester,England. The university originated as the first purpose-built teacher training college in the UK. As a university,it now occupies five campus sites in and around Chester,one in Warrington,and a University Centre in Shrewsbury. It offers a range of foundation,undergraduate and postgraduate courses,as well as undertaking academic research.
Cardiff Metropolitan University,formerly the University of Wales Institute,Cardiff and commonly referred to as Cardiff Met,is a university located in the city of Cardiff.
Sir Michael James Paul Arthur FMedSci is a British academic who was the tenth provost and president of University College London between 2013 and January 2021. Arthur had previously been chairman of the Russell Group of UK universities and the vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds between September 2004 and 2013.
Margaret Elaine Gardner,is an Australian academic,economist and university executive serving as the 30th and current governor of Victoria since August 2023. She was previously the vice-chancellor of Monash University from 2014 to 2023 and the president and vice-chancellor of RMIT University from 2005 to 2014.
The University of Cumbria is a public university in Cumbria,with its headquarters in Carlisle and other major campuses in Lancaster,Ambleside,and London. It has roots extending back to the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts,established in 1822,and the teacher training college established by Charlotte Mason in the 1890s. It opened its doors in 2007 as a university.
Sally Colette Hunt is a British trade union leader,the General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers until its merger into the new University and College Union (UCU),of which Hunt was the General Secretary until 2019.
Peter John Gibson Horrocks CBE is a broadcast executive and a former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon and at Christ's College,Cambridge. He was previously director of the BBC World Service Group.
Ferdinand von Prondzynski is a German-born Irish citizen who was the former university leader in Ireland and Scotland,a lawyer and legal academic,a high-profile public commentator,and latterly a member of the clergy of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Anglican). Formerly the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen,Scotland,he previously served as the second President of Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland (2000-2010),and before that as a professor and dean at the University of Hull,and lecturer and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
OpenLearn is an educational website. It is the UK's Open University's contribution to the open educational resources (OER) project and the home of free,open learning from The Open University. The original project was part-funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OpenLearn is a member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC).
INTO University Partnerships is a British for-profit pathway education provider focused on the provision of foundation courses for international students.
Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden,is a British electronic engineer and academic. He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Surrey University (2005–2015),and of the University of Southampton (2015–2019). He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015. He is currently the chairman of the ERA Foundation.
Mike Fitzgerald is a criminologist,former higher education manager and consultant. He was Vice-Chancellor of Thames Valley University in the 1990s.
The University and College Union (UCU) is a British trade union in further and higher education representing over 120,000 academics and support staff.
FutureLearn is a British digital education platform founded in December 2012. The company was acquired by Global University Systems in December 2022 and previously jointly owned by The Open University and SEEK Ltd. It is a massive open online course (MOOC),microcredential and degree learning platform.
Koenraad Lamberts is a British/Belgian psychologist and academic. Since 2018,he has served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. From 2014 to 2018,he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of York. Previously,he had taught at the University of Chicago,University of Birmingham,and the University of Warwick. Lamberts was chair of UCAS between 2019 and 2020. During his time at Sheffield,Lamberts oversaw the closure of its "world-renowned archaeology department".
Paul John Layzell,is a British academic,academic administrator,and software engineer. From August 2010 until July 2022,he served as Principal of Royal Holloway,University of London. He is also Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of London and Treasurer of Universities UK.
From 2018 to 2023,the UK university sector faced an industrial dispute between staff represented by the University and College Union (UCU) and their employers represented by Universities UK (UUK). The dispute was initially over proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS),a pension scheme. The changes would have seen a significant drop in worker compensation,and in response the sector experienced industrial action on a scale not before seen. Pay equality,workload,casualisation,and pay levels were added to the dispute in 2019. Action was curtailed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom,but resumed in 2021. By March 2023 a resolution had been reached on the USS,which returned to 2017 terms in a victory for the UCU. The UCU was however not successful on The Four Fights,as a November 2023 ballot for extending action failed on turnout. Many universities faced mass redundancies in 2024 amid declining funding.
