Become a member and shape your future.
We help higher education organisations be the best they can be, by unlocking the potential of their people. We are from the sector, not for profit and our work is driven by our belief in the transformative power of higher education for people, places and society.
Our membership is designed to support you in delivering your institutional strategies. Developed through consultation with our members and strategic advisory groups, our support is evidence-based and focussed on impact. It addresses key priorities and challenges in the higher education sector, while ensuring your longer term ambitions benefit from the strengthening of the essential infrastructure our members value most.
Discover our Membership packages
Find the right Advance HE Membership package for your institution.
Our growing global membership provides valuable opportunities for shared experience and learning. Grounding all that we do in evidence, we will continue to bring our more than 400 members together to collaborate with each other to address challenges as well as to best enable success for you and the sector."Alison Johns, Chief Executive at Advance HE
Why become a member?
- To prioritise Fellowship or access teaching and learning accreditation
- To provide staff with resources and thought leadership on contemporary challenges and strategic priorities
- To access Advance HE support for your institutional strategies
- To come together with the sector to share and shape best practice
- To save money on Advance HE events, programmes and consultancy.
We’re committed to working with our members to help deliver on their strategic priorities and ambitions. Membership plays an important role as part of the sector’s infrastructure for enhancing practice, whilst improving and sustaining the quality and standards that underpin student, staff and institutional success.
Membership Packages
Advance HE membership packages are designed to meet the needs of higher education institutions and research institutes globally. Select which option best matches your institution's profile to see the benefits of each package.
Membership for HE Providers in the UK
Affiliate Membership in the UK
International Membership
Membership for Research Institutions in the UK
Republic of Ireland Membership
All members get access to:
Our membership facilitates collaboration, co-creation and understanding, supporting you to overcome the challenges of the modern higher education, further education and research sector.
Global Themes
Supporting and working collaboratively with our members to meet key areas of challenge.
Membership Team
Your Membership contact is your direct line and sounding board with a strategic understanding of your context, stakeholders and institutional objectives. They will support you to engage with complex challenges, share good practices between members and help you prepare for emerging challenges and opportunities.
Strategic Advisory Groups
Your member-led Strategic Advisory Groups including Teaching and Learning, Leadership and Management, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Governance and Global Perspectives, act to ensure that we develop member benefits in the areas that deliver the most value.
Project funding
The Collaborative Development Fund (CDF) and Global Impact Grants are available to our members to develop new thinking, amplify good practice and share case studies of work with a direct impact on staff and students.
Innovative Practice Grants support our Small, Specialist, Independent and College-Based HE members from within the UK in sharing good practice and impactful initiatives.
Innovative Practice Grants support our Small, Specialist, Independent and College-Based HE members from within the UK in sharing good practice and impactful initiatives.
The Knowledge Hub
The Advance HE Knowledge Hub hosts more than 8,400 individual resources covering a wide range of topics and themes. We are continuously co-developing and creating resources to support members with contemporary challenges and share best practice.
Discounts to programmes and events
Our programmes and events are carefully designed to support all those working in higher education at every level of experience.
Discounts to consultancy
We provide consultancy, development and enhancement services to help education ministries and institutions to be world-class providers of higher education.
Current members
Advance HE currently works with over 400 institutions from around the world in order to promote institutional, staff and student success. Not sure if your organisation is already a member?