University mergers: head, heart, and hidden costs - LSE Higher Education With UK universities facing severe financial pressure, merger talk is everywhere. In this podcast, Elisabeth Hill, Chris Husbands, and Huw Morris warn that purely financially driven mergers without st...

Delighted to see that the LSE podcast on HE mergers is now live blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

🔊Comment: EPI's CEO @natalieperera.bsky.social
responds to the 2025/26 teachers' pay award.

New Government, familiar problems – By Chris Husbands - HEPI Universities face stark choices as financial pressures mount, political support wanes, and sector-wide reform looms.

In this morning's HEPI blog, I look at recent discussion of HE and outline the choices facing government and universities www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/05/12/n...

Also very good today - from @chrishusbands.bsky.social on @hepi-news.bsky.social

This was great fun!

I'm deeply saddened to read this. I worked with Claire at the IOE and learnt so much from her.

Universities struggle to adapt to changing student cohorts University leaders in the United Kingdom are struggling to keep up with the changing size, make-up and expectations of international and domestic stud...

A privilege, as always, to talk to Nic Mitchell for @uniworldnews.bsky.social for this troubling piece – with great insights from @chrishusbands.bsky.social, Janice Kay, @marycurnockcook.bsky.social and others www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

In our new Higher Futures Insight piece, Janice Kay and I look at the questions universities need to ask about engaging rapidly changing student populations higherfutures.co.uk/new-rules-of...

WEEKEND READING: Change is our ally by Professor Sir Chris Husbands - HEPI This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, who was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University between 2016 and 2023, and is now a Director of  Higher Futures, work...

Sound reflections (as ever) from @chrishusbands.bsky.social on how change and collaboration are necessary in confronting the future of HE, and they should be embraced, not feared. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/01/w...

WEEKEND READING: Change is our ally by Professor Sir Chris Husbands - HEPI This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, who was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University between 2016 and 2023, and is now a Director of  Higher Futures, work...

"If government is not the solution, if the private sector is not the solution, if the status quo is not sustainable, the answer must be imaginative and engaged leadership which is not simply about ‘my institution’ but also about ‘our future’." @chrishusbands.bsky.social bit.ly/3CHmQZy

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First keynote @chrishusbands.bsky.social on practice, diversity and technology.