• Highlights

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      Teaching and quality
      22 July 2025

      The AI agenda in higher education: how policy can measure up with practice

      In our latest think piece, GuildHE's Policy Programmes Officer Omoye Otoide explores the case for sector-wide collaboration in AI, how vocational and…

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      Omoye Otoide
      Omoye Otoide
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      Student experience
      11 July 2025

      Staying local, aiming high: why proximity to home can be a university superpower

      At the NEON conference on 20 June our Director of Policy and Strategy, Dr Kate Wicklow, spoke on the power of local recruitment and highlighted that…

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      Dr Kate Wicklow, Director of Policy and Strategy
      Dr Kate Wicklow
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      News
      9 July 2025

      GuildHE responds to update on Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE)

      GuildHE CEO Dr Brooke Storer-Church responds to today’s letter to the sector from Minister for Skills Jacqui Smith, which confirmed updated policy…

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      Dr Brooke Storer-Church
  • News
    30 July 2024

    Historic compact agreed to take back control of the UK’s creative education system

    As the country welcomes in a new political era, leading representatives and policy thinkers from across the creative arts, education and local…

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    Dr Kate Wicklow, Director of Policy and Strategy
    Dr Kate Wicklow
  • News
    29 July 2024

    GuildHE responds to DfE pause on HE (Freedom of Speech Act) and Independent Review of the OfS

    On 26 July the Department for Education announced that the implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act will be paused.

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  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    29 July 2024

    Supporting the Global Majority: a student’s experience

    In 2021, GuildHE commissioned and published peer-led research into the experiences of minority ethnic postgraduate research students at our member…

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    Maureen Smith
  • News
    26 July 2024

    #ProtectStudentChoice campaign partners call for pause to the defunding of applied general qualifications

    On 26 July the #ProtectStudentChoice campaign partners – including signatory GuildHE – wrote to Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education…

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  • News
    24 July 2024

    GuildHE, UUK and CUC publish Franchise Governance Framework

    GuildHE, in partnership with Universities UK and the Committee of University Chairs (CUC), has developed a Franchise Governance Framework to help…

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  • News
    24 July 2024

    GuildHE responds to Secretary of State’s speech at Embassy Education Conference

    On 24 July the Secretary of State for Education gave a keynote address at the Embassy Education Conference, which included the new government’s…

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  • Student experience
    19 July 2024

    Scrutinising the motive behind the DfE Non Medical Help Call for Evidence

    The Department for Education’s Call for Evidence on improving non-medical help (NMH) for disabled students asks the sector what works in the current…

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    Ellen Graves
  • News
    18 July 2024

    GuildHE launches new report ‘The Value of Creative Graduates’

    GuildHE and UKADIA (now GuildHE Creative), with a steering group of creative specialist higher education providers and Creative UK, are today…

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  • News
    18 July 2024

    ‘The Value of Creative Graduates’: Lisa Mann, Executive Director of Innovation at AUB

    GuildHE and UKADIA (now GuildHE Creative), with a steering group of creative specialist higher education providers and Creative UK, have published a…

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    Lisa Mann
  • News
    17 July 2024

    GuildHE responds to REF2029 PCE Pilot Exercise announcement

    On 17 July, the Research Excellence Framework announced a diverse spread of 40 institutions selected to submit to the People, Culture and Environment…

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  • News
    16 July 2024

    GuildHE welcomes QAA ‘Evaluation of International Pathway Programmes’ report

    GuildHE welcomes the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education evaluation report of ‘Evaluation of International Pathway Programmes’. The rapid…

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  • Skills and growth
    16 July 2024

    BREAKING: Creative employment faces challenges!

    In a guest blog, Richard Woods explores and explains the new Create Britain tool. It aims to support creative individuals find work by focusing on…

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    Richard Woods