• Highlights

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      Regulation and funding
      27 May 2026

      Times Higher Education: Specialist providers buck downturn due to 'limits on expansion'

      In this Times Higher Education article, GuildHE CEO Dr Brooke Storer-Church shares her thoughts on non-traditional providers' experience of the…

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      Regulation and funding
      18 May 2026

      Westminster Higher Education Forum keynote: Next steps for the financial sustainability and long-term funding of higher education in England

      On 18 May 2026, Dr Kate Wicklow delivered a keynote speech at Westminster Higher Education Forum's policy conference: Next steps for the financial…

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      Dr Kate Wicklow
      Dr Kate Wicklow
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      News and policy insights
      12 May 2026

      GuildHE responds to the Education Committee's Higher Education and Funding: Threat of Insolvency and International Students Report

      Today’s report from the Education Committee on higher education and funding clearly outlines HE providers as strong pillars in civic and economic…

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  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    22 March 2024

    Celebrating Brilliant Women: HCA Student-led International Women’s Day Event

    For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, GuildHE members have run a variety of exciting events with inspiring women working in the…

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    Sarah-Jane Crowson
  • Research and innovation
    7 March 2024

    GuildHE Research Doctoral Festival – Reflections on 2023

    As we prepare for this year’s GuildHE Research Doctoral Festival, to be held at on 16-17 April 2024 at the University of Winchester, we asked PhD…

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    Susan Birch
  • 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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