Higher education institutions are navigating financial pressure, workforce transformation, regulatory scrutiny and the rapid impact of artificial intelligence. Advance HE Membership provides the insight, development, implementation support and peer connections institutions need to make confident decisions, deliver sustainable change and evidence impact across the whole organisation.
Why Advance HE Membership
Membership supports institutions at the moments that matter most. It combines trusted sector insight, practical leadership and workforce development, application-focused support and access to influential peer communities. The focus is not simply on development, but on helping institutions implement, embed and evidence change.
Member institutions gain access to expertise, resources, networks, events, professional development, governance support, and teaching and learning enhancement services designed to help them address strategic challenges and improve performance
Insight: Understand what matters
Access sector benchmarking, policy briefings, regulatory interpretation, diagnostic tools, maturity models, confidential senior leader roundtables and evidence-informed foresight that help leaders understand where they stand and what action is needed.
Development: Build capability
Develop leadership, governance, education and EDI capability through programmes, workshops, workforce development and Fellowship-aligned professional development that strengthen institutional resilience and performance.
Application: Turn strategy into action
Benefit from facilitated action planning, curriculum and assessment redesign support, organisational development, governance effectiveness conversations and advisory support for complex change programmes and partnerships.
Community: Learn with peers
Join trusted networks, institutional cohorts, practice exchanges and confidential peer forums that enable comparison, collaboration and shared learning with colleagues facing similar challenges.
What membership offers
Find out how Advance HE Membership helps institutions strengthen leadership, enhance education and support staff development.
In an increasingly complex sector, Advance HE’s cross-cutting expertise provides universities with trusted guidance that is both strategic and practical. The power of our relationship with Advance HE is rooted in shared ambition: to advance higher education through courageous leadership, outstanding educational quality and unwavering commitment to inclusion.
Membership with Advance HE is an investment in institutional excellence.
Professor Sherria Hoskins, Provost, University of Portsmouth
Every year we refresh and revamp our membership offer to reflect the changing needs of higher education.
Every year, through extensive engagement with our members – gathering insight on the pressures they face, the opportunities they see and the support they need – we identify strategic priorities where Advance HE is best placed to make a genuine difference.
These priorities reflect what members themselves have told us matters most. They are not discrete problems with straightforward solutions. They are complex, overlapping, and demanding of leadership capability and a shared institutional response simultaneously. Our member benefits are designed to help your institution navigate these with confidence, clarity and practical support – turning intent into sustained action.
