Tackling the Climate Crisis: report and 12 case studies
The GuildHE report ‘Tackling the Climate Crisis’ considers five critical elements of university activity: Leadership and Governance, Teaching, Research and Knowledge Exchange, Community Engagement, and Campus Management, supported by 12 case studies from our member...
GuildHE Regulation Briefings Series
The GuildHE series of regulation briefings - and blogs - explore different elements of regulation, regulatory burden and regulators and provide a series of practical recommendations. We recognise the value of good regulation to protect the interests of students, staff...
Governance in small students’ unions: resources
NUS Charity – working with GuildHE – recently comissioned some in-depth research in collaboration with six small HE SUs, looking at all aspects of the governance and structure of those organisations. The resulting report provided a really interesting insight into the...
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Governance in small students’ unions: resources
NUS Charity – working with GuildHE – recently comissioned some in-depth research in collaboration with six small HE SUs, looking at all aspects of the governance and structure of those organisations. The resulting report provided a really interesting insight into the...

Tackling the Climate Crisis Report
GuildHE is launching a new report today ‘Tackling the Climate Crisis’ authored by Dr Alex Bols, Deputy CEO, GuildHE, which provides an in depth insight into how smaller and specialist universities and colleges within the UK are engaging with the issue at an...

GuildHE responds to OfS investigation fees consultation
In our response to the recent OfS consultation on payment of fees for investigations GuildHE emphasises that universities and colleges can only agree to pay for investigations when they have a bit more information. We believe that there should be transparent criteria...
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