We collaborate with institutions worldwide to deliver inclusive, sustainable, and high-performing higher education. Our 2025-26 membership offer is designed in direct response to sector challenges: financial pressure, regulatory complexity, leadership development, and the need for inclusive, future-ready education.
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Our Global Membership Themes for 2025-26
Education for the Future: Rethink. Redesign. Recreate.
We understand that the sector is under pressure to deliver high-quality, cost-effective, and future-proof education. This theme is designed to support institutions as they reshape curriculum and pedagogy to meet the evolving needs of students, regulators, and the wider society.
Our work under this theme includes:
- Educational Transformation Change Academy
- Partnership programme: future-focused advice as you design HE of the future
- Developing your future ready educational workforce
- AI for Educational Excellence
Teaching and Learning Accreditation
Developing accredited programmes for those who teach and support learning supports your institution's education and teaching excellence goals.
Fellowship
Fellowship is a global recognition of teaching and learning success against the internationally respected Professional Standards Framework.
Student Surveys
These surveys capture student perspectives on their educational experience.
Teaching Excellence Awards
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) spotlight educators achieving notable teaching excellence.
Governing and Leading in a Complex Landscape
The higher education environment continues to shift fast. Institutions face regulatory change, global competition, and financial challenge. Our leadership and governance theme aims to support the senior teams, governors, and managers to navigate uncertainty while staying focused on inclusive, effective, values-led leadership.
Our work under this theme includes:
- Academic Leaders’ Survival Series
- The road to REF
- The Governance Effectiveness Toolkit and the Board Diversity Toolkit
- Merger Insight and Roadmap Report
- Finance Governance Workshops
Framework for Leading in Higher Education (FLHE)
Our newly-launched framework provides a shared understanding of the attributes essential for effective leadership in HE.
Support and Recognition for Inclusion
Through collaboration, innovation and global insight, we’re driving sector-wide progress in EDI. Our executive roundtables will empower leaders to embed inclusion in strategy and practice, tackling contested topics, enhancing trans inclusion, and advancing equity for disabled students across higher education.
Our work under this theme also includes:
- Leadership for inclusion
- Updated guidance on trans inclusion
The Inclusive Institutions Framework (IIF)
IIF is a sector-led framework to help institutions embed EDI, access and participation into core strategies.
Athena Swan Charter
This framework which is used across the globe to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.
The Disabled Student Commitment
The Commitment is a voluntary, non-regulatory scheme that aims to enhance the HE experience of students with disabilities.
Race Equality Charter
The Race Equality Charter supports institutions in their work to drive out racism and tackle inequalities.
Your membership
Our membership facilitates collaboration, co-creation and understanding, supporting you to overcome the challenges of the modern higher education, further education and research sector.
Membership Team
Your Membership contact is your direct line and sounding board with a strategic understanding of your context, stakeholders and institutional objectives.
Knowledge Hub
The Advance HE Knowledge Hub hosts more than 8,400 individual resources covering a wide range of topics and themes.
Funding innovation and enhancement
We support the development of our members by funding projects that bring colleagues together to
explore key sector challenges, find new solutions.
Consultancy
Discounts to our consultancy services bring together expertise and evidence-based insight to deliver real-world solutions in the complex and dynamic environment of higher education.
Programmes and events
Discounts to our programmes and events are carefully designed to support all those working in higher education at every level of experience.
Current members
Advance HE currently works with over 470+ institutions from around the world in order to promote institutional, staff and student success. Not sure if your organisation is already a member?
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