For nearly three decades, I have had an annual ‘appointment’ with NET – the international networking conference for healthcare educators. Every year I meet ‘old’ friends....read more

Advance HE and the CUC (Committee of University Chairs), in collaboration with AHUA (Association of Heads of University Administration) and the 30% Club, have launched a new ‘board vacancies’ portal...read more

As part of Advance HE’s initiative on Integrated Thinking and Reporting, Janet Haddock-Fraser considers the notion of integrated leadership as a means of mobilising institutional action....read more

“There can be no finer mission or purpose for a university than to transform the life of a student. That is a key purpose for why we exist and I think this teaching excellence award is a reflection of that.”....read more

The National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan has become an Advance HE Access Partner, and is now our 50th international partner....read more

Advance HE’s third Research Insight presents findings from a review of 61 successful UK Silver and Gold Athena SWAN and Juno Champion (gender equality in physics) applications from the November 2016 and April 2017 rounds...read more

Advance HE chief executive, Alison Johns, has confirmed all the appointments to her top team, the chief executive’s group (CEG).  The appointments are as follows:...read more

Understanding, measuring and enhancing the student experience, and most crucially the depth of student engagement is, without any doubt, high on the agenda of every university in the UK. Why engagement, and not simply experience?...read more

McMaster University is the winner of Advance HE’s Global Teaching Excellence Award (GTEA) 2018...read more

Cardiff Metropolitan University has bestowed an Honorary Fellowship on Alison Johns, chief executive of Advance HE, in recognition her outstanding commitment and....read more

Ten years ago, the article that introduced the CareerEDGE model of graduate employability was published.  At that time, Emotional Intelligence (EI) within an employability...read more

Robin Ryde will join the next programme cohort – its 44th - in spring 2019, replacing Rosemary Stamp who is standing down.  He will be working with TMP faculty members and Advance HE associates, Louisa Hardman and Vijaya Nath....read more

Academics from Bahrain Polytechnic shared their approach and experience in rolling out their Employability Framework as supported by their model of Problem- and Project...read more

Col Swinyard achieved Principal Fellowship status through a trial HEA Fellowship cohort delivered by Advance HE within the UK Defence Academy, as recognition of her...read more

The Annual Debate 2018 was held on the evening of the second day of the Teaching and Learning Conference, (4 July), following a three course meal at the Conference Centre Hotel at Aston University. The debate used an adapted....read more

Day 3 of Advance HE’s Teaching and Learning Conference at Aston University opened with a keynote speech by Shai Reshef, President of the University of the People (UoP), the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free....read more

Day Two of the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2018 is in full swing, with our chief executive, Alison Johns, introducing our second keynote speaker, John Gill, editor of Times Higher Education (THE) to the stage....read more

The Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2018 is underway. This morning Advance HE’s chief executive, Alison Johns, welcomed the first group of the 600 plus delegates who are attending the conference over....read more

The Aga Khan University (AKU) held a celebration event on Saturday 30 June in recognition of the accreditation of their continuous professional development scheme, reaching staff across three continents....read more

The first meeting of the steering group tasked with a comprehensive review of Advance HE’s Athena SWAN Charter has taken place.....read more

I had always viewed Higher Education from the outside. Leaving school my aim was always to be involved with music, either as a musician or as a technician....read more

​​​​​​​We could be living in a world where education is not a privilege for the few, but a right for all. A more educated world would mean a more economically...read more

​​​​​​​I am six months into my vice-chancellor role at Bath Spa University. No leader has much of a honeymoon period these days - certainly not at a UK university given the current the current tough...read more

​​​​​​​Learning and teaching has been the focus of my academic practice since beginning my PhD in 2009. Working towards my Associate Fellowship of the HEA in 2010, I reflected on...read more

​​​​​​​The winners of the 2018 THE Leadership and Management Awards held in association with Advance HE, were announced on Thursday 21 June 2018 at a celebration event at the Grosvenor House Hotel London.  ....read more

Advance HE Policy Officer (Scotland) Kay Steven takes a look at Scotland’s approach to improving gender equality in engineering and how to avoid taking a deficit-model approach.....read more

When the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Plymouth achieved its Silver award (as Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry) in April 2017, we were thrilled - as any department or institution naturally would be....read more

It’s an incredibly exciting time, and getting PFHEA status as I move into this next stage of my career is really rewarding....read more

Our Gold Athena SWAN award gathered together everything the John Innes Centre was doing to address gender equality, and was achieved, not by doing more, but by capturing what we already do....read more

The idea of the ‘global graduate’ has been around for some time.  It is seized upon by universities, employers, careers advisory services and by organisations with an interest in promoting international collaborations, languages and exchange opportunities....read more

Technicians are a body of staff often referred to as an ‘invisible workforce’. They are essential to research and teaching and yet represent a relatively understudied occupational group in higher education...read more

In early June, I set off for Slovenia with a degree of trepidation. I may be married to an academic but I most certainly am not one myself.  So you can understand why I felt somewhat nervous on my flight to Slovenia...read more

2018 Student Academic Experience Survey highlights students’ belief that value for money in higher education is improving. In a marked reversal of a five-year downward trend, students...read more

Attending (and presenting!) at a conference where the audience consists mainly of established scholars in the subject area – in this case, student evaluations – can be quite intimidating for...read more

Advance HE CEO, Alison Johns, welcomed the publication of TEF 3 Awards today, “These awards point to the excellent quality of teaching across the higher education...read more.

We’ve all been in a meeting where we have heard the latest sector buzzword or strategic priority thrown around as a reason for pursuing a particular course of action or policy direction. Sometimes the...read more

Going Global is the British Council’s annual conference for leaders of international education. Advance HE participated in this year’s conference...read more

In April 2017 the government introduced new legislation which made it a legal requirement for every business and organisation employing over 250 members of staff to record and submit a series of...read more

Last month Advance HE joined up with University of the West of Scotland to hold Scotland's second symposium, this time with a focus on retention and enhancing the student experience.  Colleagues came together...read more

Australia’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and Advance HE, whose purpose is to advance the professional practice...read more

On 9 May, I ventured to Leeds to present at the Surveys 2018 conference, organised by Advance HE (formed from the recent merger of the Higher Education Academy, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and the Equality Challenge Unit)...read more

Advance HE is delighted to announce the University of Oxford as its newest Race Equality Charter bronze award holder. De Montfort University was also successful in renewing...read more

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week focuses on stress, a key factor in mental health problems. We know that big life changes can cause stress, and starting university would certainly...read more

Advance HE will undertake a major review of the Athena SWAN Charter, ensuring that it is fit for current and future needs of institutions, individuals and the sector as a whole. The Charter is...read more

Advance HE is delighted to announce the finalists for the Global Teaching Excellence Award (GTEA) 2018. Introduced last year in association with Times Higher Education, the award recognises...read more

The chief executive of Advance HE, Alison Johns, will be joining other leaders working in international higher education at this year’s Going Global conference in Malaysia...read more

As part of the subject-level TEF, the DfE is consulting on whether to introduce a new measure of teaching intensity. One of the six options presented for consideration...read more

As Advance HE takes its first steps as a new organisation, Chief executive Alison Johns reflects on the first days and her plans for the new HE sector agency during the rest of 2018...read more

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. Advance HE is a new agency formed in 2018 from the merger of Equality Challenge Unit, the Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education...read more.

Advance HE, the new sector agency to be formed from the merger of the Equality Challenge Unit, Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, is announced today – Wednesday 21 March after the three agencies signed the documentation to effect the merger...read more.