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The Lifelong Learning Entitlement could still be a game changer for higher education
In an article for the Higher Education Policy Institute, GuildHE's Director of Policy and Strategy Dr Kate Wicklow explains why the Lifelong Learning Entitlement could still be a game changer for higher education and explores the opportunities and challenges ahead....
Scrutinising the motive behind the DfE Non Medical Help Call for Evidence
Ellen Graves, GuildHE Policy Officer, scrutinises the motive behind the DfE Non Medical Help Call for Evidence in a thought-provoking blog. The Department for Education’s Call for Evidence on improving non-medical help (NMH) for disabled students asks the sector what...
‘The Value of Creative Graduates’: Lisa Mann, Executive Director of Innovation at AUB
GuildHE and UKADIA, with a steering group of creative specialist higher education providers and Creative UK, have published an important new report ‘The Value of Creative Graduates’. In a blog for GuildHE, Lisa Mann, Executive Director of Innovation at Arts University...
BREAKING: Creative employment faces challenges!
In a blog for GuildHE, Richard Woods explores and explains the new Create Britain tool. It aims to support creative individuals find work by focusing on enabling users to dynamically promote their skills to potential employers. This approach recognises and reflects...
Higher education funding: what are the options?
Part three - the funding options In the final blog in our series on Sustainability in HE Funding by GuildHE's Chief Finance Officer Mark Taylor, we consider which of five options could ‘future-proof’ the system and best maintain subject diversity, choice and...
Prioritising grant funding: a GuildHE perspective
In our latest blog Dr Kate Wicklow, Policy Director, explores our perspective on prioritising grant funding, following the GuildHE response to the OfS funding approach consultation. The OfS receives £1.456 billion in public funds to allocate on key strategic...
Higher education funding: a brief history
Part two - a brief history of funding In the second of three blogs on 'Higher Education funding: are there any sustainable options?' by GuildHE's Chief Finance Officer Mark Taylor, we explore the impact of higher education funding models over the last 30 years, from...
Higher education funding: are there any sustainable options?
Part one - the current context In this first of three blogs by GuildHE's Chief Finance Officer Mark Taylor, we look at the current financial position of higher education institutions in the light of the continued freeze in the regulated fee, recent material changes in...
Advanced British Standard (ABS): the GuildHE view
The British government is proposing a new qualification for 16-19 year olds called the Advanced British Standard (ABS). It combines academic and technical options, with students taking five subjects over two years (in the academic pathway) which include some core...
Advancing Higher Education: UCEM endorses ‘Effective Skills Policy: A GuildHE Manifesto for Change’
Ashley Wheaton, Vice Chancellor of GuildHE member institution UCEM, and GuildHE Board Member, sets out below UCEM's support of the new GuildHE publication ‘Effective Skills Policy: A Manifesto for Change' and its important recommendations relating to the...