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UK Higher Education in 2025: If You’re Waiting for Things to Settle Down… You Might Be Waiting a While
Published on Jun 30, 2025 / No Comments
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Now’s the time to be brave, clear-eyed, and yes, a little bit radical. Here are seven things’ universities can do this year to not just stay afloat but genuinely move forward with purpose.
Admissions at Full Tilt: Why now is the time to look again at how things really work
Published on Jun 30, 2025 / No Comments
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Here's a concept that’s often used with good intentions but is ultimately flawed: “future-proofing” students. It’s an attractive notion that revolves around equipping learners with the right tools and mindset to face an unpredictable world.
The end of TEF as we know it (and why that might actually be good news)
Published on Jun 19, 2025 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates
So, the Office for Students (OfS) has finally made the announcement. No more big-bang Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) exercises where everyone holds their breath, scrambles for evidence and then relaxes for another few years, it seems.
Strategic Considerations for a Successful Student Survey Tool
Published on Jun 18, 2025 / No Comments
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Traditional student surveys often result in large volumes of data that require significant time and effort to analyse. However, the real value lies in the ability to quickly translate feedback into tangible improvements.
Constructing a Co-creating Consultancy
Published on Jan 22, 2025 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Consulting , AHEP Development Monthly , AHEP Updates
The last few months has been a really exciting time for AHEP Consulting. We have been building our amazing Consultant community and identifying key areas where we believe that AHEP Consulting can make a difference in supporting the HE sector and more specifically support the development of Professional Services teams and individuals, enabling change.
From Tradition to Innovation: The Evolution of Student Support
Published on Jun 17, 2024 / No Comments
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Looking back on more than three decades of work in HE student affairs, I’d like to reflect on three macro-level trends which I’ve seen evolve over the years, and which continue to develop in the sector. These relate to the purpose of student affairs; the organisation of student affairs; and the impact of student affairs.
Who wants to be a University Board Chair?
Published on Feb 28, 2022 / No Comments
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Who wants to be a University Board Chair? Over the last few years I have been involved in the appointment of several governing body chairs. I am pleased to say that they seem to have been successful but that has been in no small part due to there being a candidate, currently serving on the […]
Admissions in the changing HE landscape
Published on Feb 16, 2022 / No Comments
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Admissions in the changing HE landscape Having had several years of declining numbers of 18 year olds in the UK population, the trend has now reversed and the number is set to rise for the foreseeable future. Whilst on the face of it this appears to mean that it will become easier to recruit home […]
Kick-starting your professional development
Published on Dec 2, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates , Professional Development
Kick-starting your professional development As the end of the year approaches and a new year is just around the corner, this is often a time for reflection. In HE we continue to be primarily focused on the impact of Covid on our students and institutions. We have been so focused on firefighting over the last […]
Professional Services – An Alternative to Benchmarking?
Published on Oct 13, 2021 / No Comments
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Professional Services – An Alternative to Benchmarking? Many of us will have pondered the question of what level of staffing is needed to carry out professional services tasks in our university. This may well have led to trying some form of benchmarking to determine how our university compares with others. Benchmarking can range from the […]