Consultation Responses
GuildHE Annual Report 2021-2022
GuildHE Annual Report 2021-22 This annual report sets out the key issues that GuildHE has addressed over the last year. It begins by highlighting our key achievements, demonstrating successes in all areas of the GuildHE strategy, and then looks in more detail at our...
Embracing diversity to expand knowledge and understanding
Authored by Professor Nick Braisby, Vice-Chancellor, Buckinghamshire New University and GuildHE Board Diversity Champion 70 years ago, in 1952, the world was facing a choice – whether or not to respect the identity of sexual minorities. That year, the American...
GuildHE Regulation Briefing: Regulation of Higher Education in England – is there another way?
The second GuildHE briefing in our new regulation series considers ‘Regulation of Higher Education in England – is there another way?’ and is authored by Smita Jamdar, Partner and Head of Education at Shakespeare Martineau. Gordon McKenzie, Chief Executive of GuildHE...
Are you ready for Data Futures?
With all the excitement of the last few months, you might not have realised that we are finally in the first academic year of a new approach to data collection. The Data Futures project has been a long time coming, with the first working group meeting back in 2017. A...
GuildHE responds to OfS consultation on the future approach to regulating equality of opportunity in English higher education
Our response GuildHE have responded to the OfS consultation on the future approach to regulating equality of opportunity in English higher education. Overall we are grateful to the OfS for recognising - in the case of APPs - the substantial burden the current process...
GuildHE Regulation Briefing: Introduction, burden, cost and overlap
Regulatory burden on smaller providers: GuildHE has published the first in a series of briefings looking at the regulatory burden on smaller and specialist institutions, highlighting the impact of smaller datasets, resources and proportional costs, regulatory overlap...
Key insights and learnings from the International Conference on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers, UK Council for Graduate Education
At the start of November 2022 I was fortunate to attend the UKCGE international conference. The conference covered a range of topics from the experiences of black PGRs, to the role of the supervisor in PGR wellbeing. Below I have listed just some of the insights I...
THE Campus Live UK & IE – Creating opportunity through education
We are delighted to be an event partner of THE Campus Live UK&IE which will be held in London on 16-17 November will create the opportunity to address the most pressing issues currently faced by higher education professionals, highlighting the voices at the...
GuildHE responds to the outcomes of the OfS NSS consultation
It is deeply disappointing that the OfS has decided to remove the summative question, Question 27, in the National Student Survey despite only 10% of comments agreeing with its removal. We argued to retain it as a useful measure for institutions and students and the...