Shaping the Future Together
We’re delighted to introduce our 2025–26 membership offer, designed in close partnership with you. Insights from Vice-Chancellor and Executive roundtables, institutional visits, and advisory groups have been invaluable in shaping our approach.
The clear message is that transformation is more critical than ever for success and sustainability—while continuing to deliver excellence.
Member Benefit Global Themes 2025-26
Our 2025-26 membership offer has been shaped by invaluable feedback from sector leaders, addressing the sector's most pressing challenges, including financial sustainability, educational transformation, and leadership development. In response, we've evolved our approach to deliver practical, accessible solutions that support institutions in meeting regulatory requirements whilst maintaining excellence.
This year's membership introduces targeted initiatives under three key global themes:
- Education for the future - rethink, redesign, recreate
- Governing and leading transformation in a complex landscape
- Support and recognition for inclusion
Beginning in September, these flexible, scalable solutions are designed for diverse institutional contexts. Please register your interest below to receive updates on how to access and participate.
Education for the future - rethink, redesign, recreate
Our 2025-26 Educational Excellence member benefits have been developed in direct response to three major challenges our member institutions are facing; finding financially efficient curriculum models and pedagogies fit for their context, responding to the changing needs of both students and regulators, and redesigning now to meet the needs of students in the future.
Educational Transformation Change Academy
This year's Change Academy focuses on Educational Transformation, supporting institutional changes in teaching and learning, and local measures and systems regulating quality such as TEF. This free members-only programme offers expert guidance on innovative pedagogy and student support through peer learning.
(Re)Designing Higher Education
Shaping the Future with Insight and Innovation. A collaborative programme for educational leaders ready to transform their institutions.
Elevate Ireland
Celebrating Educational Excellence Across Irish Higher Education. Connect. Share. Grow. Get Recognised.
Elevate MENA
Higher education in the MENA region is evolving rapidly. Are you ready to be part of the transformation?
Elevate Australasia
Teaching excellence support designed specifically for Australasian higher education.
Smarter Futures: Harnessing AI and Technology for Efficiency in Higher Education
Smarter Futures addresses how higher education needs to evolve rapidly while maintaining quality and accessibility through three expert-led online events. These events will demonstrate how AI and digital technologies can transform your institutional efficiency.
Developing your future ready educational workforce
Aligning with institutional strategy and teaching and learning plans, we will support our members to ensure Fellowship is a strategic tool central to embedding excellence. This programme focuses on ensuring that your workforce is prepared as they design and develop higher education curriculum for the future.
Governing and leading transformation in a complex landscape
Our 2025-2026 leadership, governance and management member benefits support your leaders, governors and institutions to navigate change effectively – specifically while operating in an environment of increased volatility characterised by financial pressures, changing government priorities and evolving regulatory landscapes.
Framework for Leading in Higher Education (FLHE)
Our newly-launched framework provides a shared understanding of the attributes essential for effective leadership in higher education. Advance HE’s Framework for Leading in Higher Education (FLHE) supports this by offering a structured, values-based approach that helps leaders reflect on their practice, align with institutional goals and lead ethically and inclusively. Member-only masterclasses will provide clear guidance on how the FLHE could be applied both individually and organisationally to drive leadership excellence.
Academic Leaders’ Survival Series
To support your middle academic leaders directly, the Academic Leaders’ Survival Series offers short, practical online sessions tackling pressing issues such as leading through financial constraint, navigating difficult dialogue, driving change, building distributed leadership, enhancing wellbeing and future-proofing leadership skills.
Executive at the Leading Edge
This is an exclusive series of monthly two-hour online events for senior higher education leaders. Gain actionable insights from global thought leaders on AI transformation, resilient leadership, inclusive innovation, navigating political and societal challenges.
Connecting Research Culture and Impact
Join Pro Vice-Chancellors and research leaders as they share proven strategies for building impact-driven research cultures. This interactive online event reveals the strategic thinking behind successful initiatives like Thrive and Reimagining Leadership, addressing challenges from researcher isolation to cross-sector collaboration.
Support and recognition for inclusion
Inclusive Institutions Framework
In 2025 we will launch the Inclusive Institutions Framework (IIF), designed to fast-track more strategic and intersectional approaches to inclusion. The framework responds to strong sector-wide appetite for efficient, scalable and sustainable ways to deliver meaningful progress.
In September a Pathfinder Group designed for institutions that want to begin engaging with the Inclusive Institutions Framework and start using the framework from January 2026 will being work.
In September a Pathfinder Group designed for institutions that want to begin engaging with the Inclusive Institutions Framework and start using the framework from January 2026 will being work.
Leadership for inclusion
Grounded in collaboration, innovation and insight, we will lead three global executive roundtables, equipping members to enhance strategic decision-making and drive sustainable progress in equity, diversity and inclusion, focusing on:
- embedding inclusion in leadership and institutional transformation
- inclusive teaching on contested topics with diverse audiences
- exploring innovation and practice in free speech, academic freedom, belonging and protection from harassment.
- embedding inclusion in leadership and institutional transformation
- inclusive teaching on contested topics with diverse audiences
- exploring innovation and practice in free speech, academic freedom, belonging and protection from harassment.
Updated guidance on trans inclusion
Our current trans inclusion guidance will be updated in 2025, providing support and focus on improving experiences for trans staff and students.
The Disabled Student Commitment
The Disabled Student Commitment champions inclusivity in higher education. It seeks to eliminate barriers, promote understanding and support disabled students, ensuring they can fully engage in academic life and have equal opportunities across university environments.
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