​​​​​​​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.