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UNIVERSITIES REPORT
By Ged Henderson
A HIGH DEGREE OF EXCELLENCE
They are the jewels in Lancashire’s education crown. Its four universities deliver world leading research and tens of millions of pounds for the county’s economy.
These shining seats of learning are major anchor institutions and through ever-closer links with the business community they are driving innovation, productivity and skills. Research and Development is also helping the economy grow.
The county is home to Lancaster University, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and Edge Hill University. It also has a campus of the University of Cumbria in Lancaster.
Together they are a significant concentration of Higher Education excellence and continue to build strong relationships and partnerships.
Lancashire’s university sector is also playing in increasingly important role in delivering inward investment.
That influence was seen in the county’s successful bid to be the home of the UK’s National Cyber Force (NCF) which brings with it a £5bn
investment into the Lancashire economy and the promise of thousands of highly skilled jobs.
Lancaster University and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) were part of the tight-knit team that persuaded the government that Samlesbury was the right place for the NCF headquarters.
An awful lot of
innovation work that takes place in the county is driven by the universities
The universities work hard to boost Lancashire’s vital SME sector and have forged close links with some of its biggest businesses including blue chip companies such as BAE Systems.
And they also have built strong relationships with the county’s local authorities and the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP). Partnership is the name of the game.
Figures show that as well as all this they are large-scale businesses, playing a major role in Lancashire’s economic wellbeing.
Take UCLan. It has a student population approaching 36,000 and is one of largest employers in the region with more than 3,000 staff with a yearly income of more than £250m.
It has been estimated that every year the university, with its main campus in Preston, contributes more than £200m to the local economy.
In 2020-21, Lancaster University received £325.6m - most of it raised through tuition fees, research grants and funding.
That income was used to support the learning and academic experience of more than 16,000 students while also enabling the university to undertake world-leading research.
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