
Working together to address your priorities
Delivering effective change
A holistic approach to student success may be achieved by addressing a combination of the strategic priorities outlined below in an integrated programme of activity:
Embedding Employability
Transforming Assessment
Student Retention and Success
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education
Flexible Learning
Internationalising higher education
Student engagement through partnership
Education for sustainable development
Technology enhanced learning
Mental wellbeing in higher education
Tailoring your priorities across specific disciplines
Whether you're working with us across a range of disciplines or within a specific disciplinary area (Arts and Humanities, Health and Social Care, Social Sciences, STEM), we will shape our services to meet your needs, supporting you at an individual, departmental, faculty or institutional level.
Student Success Frameworks Series
Best practice frameworks, informed by research, developed with the sector for the sector
The issues impacting on student success are broad and complex, having a shared point of reference and common language to discuss, shape and review policy, process and practice can therefore be an extremely effective way of applying a consistent methodology to leading change. Engaging with our research informed frameworks in combination, will help identify smarter ways of working. This is achieved through identifying synergies between key strategic priorities that all underpin teaching excellence and the aspiration to support student success in its broadest sense.

“The Advance HE [formerly the Higher Education Academy] frameworks are evidence-based and provide the higher education sector with a national reference point to enable the institution to develop its own approach according to local circumstances as well as benchmarking performance.” Universities UK (2016), p.73, Working in partnership: enabling social mobility.
Consultancy and Enhancement Services
Your challenges are our priorities and as we’re independent of any regulatory framework, we can provide an external viewpoint and be your critical friend. We create ‘safe places’, facilitating collaboration and candid conversation between and within institutions. Our support includes:
- expert advice and guidance
- bespoke sustainable consultancy solutions from department through to institutional level
- staff development opportunities at all levels
- teaching resources
- events and networks
- examples of sector best practice
UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF)
Working with individuals and institutions in higher education (HE) to provide students with an excellent learning experience is core to what we do at Advance HE. This is why we manage and lead the development of the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF), a nationally-recognised framework for benchmarking success within HE teaching and learning support. We believe that the UKPSF is essential to driving improvement in, and raising the profile of, teaching and learning in HE.
