• 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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    • Ben Mullins exams unsplash
      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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    • graduates unsplash
      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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  • Regulation and funding
    19 February 2025

    GuildHE response to consultation on OfS strategy for 2025 – 2030

    Today we have submitted GuildHE’s response to the consultation on OfS strategy for 2025-30.

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  • Member spotlight
    14 February 2025

    Collaboration drives research capacity in specialist sectors

    It is a great advantage of the UK higher education system that more emergent institutions may, through accreditation agreements for research degrees…

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    Rachel Persad
    Rachel Persad
  • Research and innovation
    13 February 2025

    Submission to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee: innovation, growth and the regions

    In our recent submission to the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, we provided evidence on why the current research and…

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  • Regulation and funding
    12 February 2025

    Submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review

    In this submission to HM Treasury, we demonstrate why a diverse higher education sector is vital to the government’s key missions and how spending…

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  • Regulation and funding
    11 February 2025

    The danger of homogenisation: new article for HEPI

    As the government considers higher education reform, Dr Brooke Storer-Church and Dr Kate Wicklow make the case for why specialist HEIs are crucial to…

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  • Regulation and funding
    10 February 2025

    We must not lose diversity while pushing for reforms

    The UK higher education sector is a vibrant tapestry of institutions, each with its unique strengths and contributions. Institutions, like those…

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    Dr Kate Wicklow
    Dr Kate Wicklow
  • Regulation and funding
    10 February 2025

    DfE HE Reform submission - Smaller-scale, specialist and non-traditional institutions are key to delivering Government priorities

    On 10 February 2025 we submitted a report to the Department for Education to inform the work being undertaken on higher education reform.

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  • Member spotlight
    7 February 2025

    The National Centre for Circus Arts: showcasing a global leader

    The National Centre for Circus Arts, located in East London, is one of Europe’s leading institutions dedicated to the training and development of…

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    Dr Kate Wicklow
    Dr Kate Wicklow
  • Member spotlight
    31 January 2025

    Our members drive local growth through innovative incubator and accelerator programmes

    According to the 2020 report by Social Innovation Monitor, there were a total of 274 incubators and accelerators in the UK, of which 80 were…

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    Tara McNicholas
    Tara McNicholas
  • News
    31 January 2025

    Update: priorities for working with the Office for Students

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  • International
    22 January 2025

    Rethinking the value of internationalisation in higher education

    It is not news that the higher education sector’s relationship with international activity is strained, from recruiting students to delivering…

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    Dana Gamble
    Dana Gamble
    Dr Esther Wilkinson
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    17 January 2025

    Supporting inclusivity and enabling neurodivergent students to thrive

    In this blog, Policy Officer Ellen Graves sets out how adopting universal design can improve neurodivergent students’ experiences and outcomes and…

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    Ellen Graves
    Ellen Graves