• Highlights

    • Priscilla Unsplash
      News
      6 July 2026

      GuildHE responds to Minister for Skills on higher education outcomes and quality, following IFS report

      On 3 July, Dr Brooke Storer-Church wrote to Rt Hon Baroness Jacqui Smith, Minister of State for Skills, responding to her on higher education…

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      News
      29 June 2026

      Times Higher Education: Minimum entry standards ‘blunt tool’ to tackle franchise abuse

      In this Times Higher Education article, GuildHE CEO Dr Brooke Storer-Church commented on the government's announcement of a consultation on…

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      News
      25 June 2026

      GuildHE responds to the IFS report on the impact of undergraduate degrees on lifetime earnings

      GuildHE welcomes the new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), but argues that higher education is more than the blunt tool of graduate…

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  • News
    6 March 2024

    GuildHE responds to OfS consultation on new free speech complaints scheme

    GuildHE has responded to the OfS consultation on a new free speech complaints scheme. Read the full GuildHE response and blog below.

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  • Publications
    1 March 2024

    Tackling food security, climate change and biodiversity – the role of land based education

    Food security, climate change and the biodiversity crisis are major challenges and universities and colleges in the UK hold a central role in…

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  • News
    19 February 2024

    University groups call for cross-government health education taskforce

    With the latest UCAS data showing applications are down for medicine, nursing and midwifery courses, leaders from the higher education sector are…

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  • Research and innovation
    31 January 2024

    Whose research culture? Including all perspectives will be crucial to success

    As the research community grapples with a range of projects considering the culture of research from a variety of angles, Policy Manager, Rachel…

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    Rachel Persad
    Rachel Persad
  • Research and innovation
    25 January 2024

    Enhancing Research Culture Initiative: GuildHE Research Culture Cafés

    What is research culture? How do you go about improving it? And are there significant differences to research culture at smaller and specialist…

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    Rachel Persad
    Rachel Persad
  • Publications
    15 December 2023

    Regulation Briefing: Regulation and Research

    This is the final regulation briefing in our series. The research regulatory infrastructure changed significantly following the Higher Education and…

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  • Publications
    12 December 2023

    Universities central to tackling teacher shortage in schools

    Teacher supply in England is in crisis. There are many causes, but if government does not fix this, children will suffer. Without action, the crisis…

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  • Publications
    1 November 2023

    Response to the consultation on the initial decisions for REF 2028

    GuildHE has responded to the consultation on the initial decisions on the next Research Excellence Framework – REF 2028. The first consultation…

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  • Publications
    22 September 2023

    Expertise in Action: impact of funding knowledge exchange activity at smaller and specialist universities

    Today we have launched our Expertise in Action report, highlighting the impact of funding knowledge exchange activity at smaller and specialist…

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  • Publications
    22 July 2023

    Regulation Briefing: Reflections and recommendations

    This is our fifth briefing in our regulation series.

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  • Research and innovation
    3 July 2023

    Research Integrity and Emerging Research Cultures

    The recent Research Culture and Practice Forum was full of wonderful examples of practice and embedding the principles of the concordats. Policy…

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    Rachel Persad
    Rachel Persad
  • Publications
    25 April 2023

    Regulation Briefing: World-class regulation

    This is the fourth in the series of briefings on different elements of regulation by GuildHE.

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