Consultation Responses
Why building on strengths will deliver a future-ready NSS
The National Student Survey (NSS) has proved to be a remarkably robust and stable tool since it was introduced in 2005. With over two thirds of eligible students responding, giving a response of almost 325,000 last year, it provides information that is hugely...
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Tara McNicholas Senior Communications Officer Tara McNicholas works closely with the CEO, Deputy CEO and GuildHE’s Policy Managers. She is responsible for communications strategy and planning in liaison with the Deputy CEO and CEO. Her areas of work and expertise...
Cost of living and its effect on student achievement
The increased cost of living will undoubtedly affect all of us in society in some way - but HE providers should be mindful now more than ever of the effect that the squeeze in student finances may have a detrimental impact on students ability to succeed. Students have...
(£6m) Reasons to be Cheerful: HEIF Additional Funding
Today Research England announced its funding allocations for 2022-2025. Included within that is a £6 million fund in 2022-23 to support knowledge exchange at institutions not routinely in receipt of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). Fantastic news and a...
Why University Governors Should Do More to Protect Academic Quality
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Why it is time for university governors to do more on academic quality (HEPI Policy Note 36), notes the growing responsibility that boards of higher education institutions have on issues of...
What does the new TEF mean for Small and Specialist Providers?
This blog was developed from the presentation by Dr Alex Bols, Deputy CEO GuildHE, at the Inside Government TEF Reset Conference 2022 on 30 June 2022 What does the new TEF mean for Small and Specialist Providers? Whether the new TEF will enable smaller and specialist...
A return to pre-pandemic ‘upper’ degree awarding promised by universities in England
A return to pre-pandemic ‘upper’ degree awarding promised by universities in England Universities in England have committed to reversing pandemic grade inflation in first and 2.1 degrees. In a first of its kind statement Universities UK (UUK) and GuildHE members have...
GuildHE Response to UKRI Call for Input to New Deal for Postgraduate Research
GuildHE Response to UKRI Call for Input to New Deal for Postgraduate Research GuildHE Institutions provide unique models of entry and exit for postgraduate research studies. In these providers, the profile of a PhD candidate does not reflect the rest of the UK...
REF 2021: World-leading research and exceptional environments for researchers at the UK’s smaller and specialist universities
95% of GuildHE institutions submitted world-leading research to the REF, a remarkable achievement and testimony to the excellence of the sector in key research areas. GuildHE congratulates our member institutions on their success in REF 2021. The results demonstrate...