This article was first published by The Yorkshire Post on 11 July 2024 New data released this week shows that almost 80 per cent of UK graduates were in high-skilled jobs just over a year after they graduated, with 84 per cent of those asked saying they found their employment to be meaningful. It also …
Marina Tapley, YU Policy and Research Officer Directly access the new tool launched by Yorkshire Universities that compiles existing resources to support regional analysis of graduate labour markets by clicking here. Yorkshire Universities (YU) held a recent workshop to explore priorities for regional analysis of graduate labour markets out of a set of identified areas …
Dr Peter O’Brien, YU Executive Director The Labour Party has won a landslide in the General Election. Sir Keir Starmer, a University of Leeds graduate, becomes the country’s 58th Prime Minister, and Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West and Pudsey, is the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer. Yorkshire Universities (YU) congratulates the Labour Party, …
Marina Tapley, YU Policy and Research Officer Dr Bob Gilworth, Senior Lecturer in Careers Guidance at the University of Huddersfield. This article was first published by HEPI on 6 July 2024 A Yorkshire Universities (YU) project has produced the first large-scale picture of student self-reported career readiness at the start of undergraduate study across an …
Monika Antal, YU Assistant Director This article was first published by Wonkhe on 25 June 2024 A root and branch audit of twelve higher education institutions across Yorkshire has found that students across the region are being offered real-life challenges to apply their academic knowledge and critical thinking skills to meet genuine community needs related …
Yorkshire Universities (YU) Executive Director, Dr Peter O’Brien, has written to the leaders of Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire councils to respond to the public consultation on the Hull and East Yorkshire Devolution Deal. You can read the full open letter below, which outlines YU’s support for continuing devolution across Yorkshire and the potential …
Professor Jamie Morgan, Leeds Beckett University The last general election took place in December 2019, and government must call another one within five years or Parliament is automatically dissolved, and the latest that can happen is 17 December 2024, which means the latest an election can be held is the end of January 2025. Given …
Dr Peter O’Brien, YU Executive Director Last Wednesday’s Autumn Statement saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, and the Treasury, publish a raft of documents that introduced new interventions designed to boost growth, or to report on complex policy challenges where the Government had commissioned research to investigate or had sought external advice. One …
The YU ‘Innovation in Conversation’ webinar was organised as part of the 2022 West Yorkshire Innovation Festival on 4 October 2022. The webinar focussed on discussing solutions and approaches to the following two main questions: In 2023, we used the material we recorded in 2022 to draw out some key messages and case studies that …
New job! I’m now a Y-PERN fellow, officially based in the Management School at Sheffield University, but mostly working with the South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority (SYMCA, pronounced by folk who work there as ‘sim-ka’). Y-PERN (“Yorkshire & Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network”) is a pretty unique project – Research England funded it specifically to strengthen the glue between Yorkshire and Humber’s universities and its local and mayoral authorities, building on a memorandum of understanding between them. The project itself doesn’t have traditional academic research questions or output requirements; the glue-strengthening is the whole point.
