Higher Education Fellowship
The UK's universities educate nearly two million students and employ some 300,000 people across the UK. Higher education is a substantial business in its own right, and it contributes massively to the UK's global competitiveness through research, innovation, technology transfer and consultancy programmes.
The IPT has worked with a number of established universities representing a cross-section of the higher-education sector, including:
- Bristol University: a popular, long established city university whose research programmes in computer science and chemistry are of particular note, as well as its enterprise agenda.
- Royal Holloway London University: a leading small research university with particular strengths in the humanities.
- Kingston University: a well-regarded new university with high teaching quality and strong links with the local community.
- Imperial College London: an international player competing in the world league, member of the Russell Group, delivering world-class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering and medicine.
- University of Wales, Swansea: working with the Institute of Life Sciences, a leading centre for biotechonogy research and a regional focal point for biotechnology start-ups.
The University Fellowship programme involves around five days of placements with each university, spread over approximately 18 months.
Case Studies
Alistair Burt MP completed his higher-education Fellowship in 2006
IPT case study