“It’s time for teaching excellence to attain the same status and recognition as academic research.”

That was the rallying call of Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s…

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

Advance HE’s third Research Insight…

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…

Understanding, measuring and enhancing the student experience, and most crucially the depth of student engagement is, without any doubt, high on the agenda of…

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

The award, now in its second year, recognises outstanding institution-…

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

Lorraine is a Chartered Psychologist and Principal Lecturer (Student & Staff Development) at the University of Central Lancashire. She is also an HEA Principal Fellow.. She…

The former chief executive of the UK National School of Government is joining Advance HE as a facilitator on the new agency’s highly regarded Top Management…

Academics from Bahrain Polytechnic shared their approach and experience in rolling out their Employability Framework as supported by…

A new collaboration between Advance HE and the Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) has led to the first military officer, Col Lorna Swinyard,…

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…

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…

4 July: Day Two of the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2018 is in full swing, with…

3 July: 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…

The Aga Khan University (AKU) held a celebration event on Saturday 30 June in recognition of the accreditation of their continuous professional…

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

Jon Burton has been a live sound engineer for over 35 years working at the highest level. He became involved in teaching over 20 years ago and has delivered masterclasses at…

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 developed world, a more…

Professor Sue Rigby, vice-chancellor of Bath Spa University reviews the her first six months in the leadership role. 

I am six months into my vice-chancellor role at…

Dr Suzanne Nolan is the Senior Lecturer in Employment Development in the Suffolk Business School, and has recently been recognised as a Senior Fellow of the HEA. She has been…

The winners of the 2018 THE Leadership and Management Awards held in association…

23rd June marks International Women in Engineering Day. Advance HE Policy Officer (Scotland) Kay Steven takes a look at Scotland’s approach to…

When the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Plymouth achieved its Silver award (as Peninsula Schools of Medicine and…

Sam Nolan works as Assistant Director at the Centre for Academic, Researcher and Organisation Development at Durham University and is also…

One year on from becoming the first institution to be awarded Athena SWAN…

Professor Christine Jarvis is our keynote speaker for Day One of the Advance HE…

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…

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…

2018 Student Academic Experience Survey highlights students’ belief that value for money in higher education is improving
 
In a marked reversal of…

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…

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 sector in the…

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…

Going Global is the British Council’s annual conference for leaders of international education. Advance HE participated in this year’s conference (theme: ‘Global Connections,…

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…

Last month Advance HE joined up with University of the West of Scotland to…

Australia’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and Advance HE, whose purpose is to advance the professional practice of higher education, have signed a…

Dr Joe Barton (Representation & Research Coordinator, Newcastle University Students’ Union).…

Advance HE is delighted to announce the University of Oxford as its newest Race Equality Charter bronze award holder.

De Montfort…

Mandi Barron, AMOSSHE Executive Member, Head of Student Services at Bournemouth University, and LFHE Fellow

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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…

17 institutions from six countries in contention for the overall award and for one of five new ‘Spotlight’ awards. Advance HE is delighted to announce the finalists for the…

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.…

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 as part…

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…

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…

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…