Advance HE is a global not-for-profit organisation and registered charity based in the UK. We support the improvement of higher education for the benefit of students, staff and society. We have over 400 members in 32 different countries, and our work includes improving teaching and learning, leadership and governance, and equality in higher education.
Our purpose
We help higher education be the best it can be.
Our vision
Higher education providers and systems that are inclusive, sustainable and high-performing in all they do.
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Our work in Vietnam
Advance HE has been working with higher education institutions in Vietnam since 2020. This has included the delivery of a Teaching Skills Masterclass, in partnership with Vietnamese- German University and the World Bank, which brought together 30 academics from institutions across Vietnam to develop and enhance their online teaching practices. Advance HE has been working with the British Council to develop governance and leadership capacity in the HE sector in both Vietnam and Myanmar.
The participants have all returned to their respective universities, inspired to start using the techniques and tools so competently demonstrated by the Advance HE team, and to share their new-found knowledge and skills with their colleagues.”Dr Mark Spittle, Director of CETL, Vietnamese-German University
Tackling key challenges facing HE
At Advance HE, our mission is to help higher education shape its future. We are member-led, solution orientated, and strive to enhance organisational performance and drive positive change by bringing people together for sector collaboration, being supportive and enabling, working as an enhancement body and being a critical friend
Your challenges are our priorities. Our services allow us to be a critical friend, bringing our deep and extensive expertise to your challenges and draw on the learnings from our cross-sector reach.
We can support your institution to enhance your strengths and to tackle your challenges such as:
How we work with you
Advance HE has deep contextual understanding of the challenges faced within higher education. Our expert team can provide support which is all encompassing to solutions of smaller focused interventions. We can work with you in the following ways:
Identifying your strength and challenges - Using tools such as our Curriculum Review Tool, surveys, audits, focus groups and interviews, we will work with you to provide an overview of how your institution, faculty or school is performing or perceived.
Developing strategies for sustainable change - We can support you to both develop and adapt a visionary strategy robust enough to withstand uncertainties in the external environment, but also to implement and embed strategies into action across the organisation.
Staff development programmes and workshops - Our wealth of experience, the quality of our delivery and distinctiveness is threaded through our delivery of staff development programmes and workshops. Using diverse and immersive experiential learning techniques, these provide participants with the opportunity to enhance their skills, delivered by facilitators from inside and outside HE with a deep and enduring knowledge of its wonders and challenges.
Awarding success - Advance HE supports institutions globally to have their teaching staff development programmes accredited against to the Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in HE requirements and allow the automatic award of Fellowship to successful participants.