The tenures of UK university leaders are growing longer, reaching more than eight years on average, “despite the enormous pressures and (sometimes) personal abuse faced by those who fill this important role”, the Higher Education Policy Institute has found.
A policy note by Hepi director Nick Hillman, published on 26 May, with executive search firm GatenbySanderson, looks at various ways of measuring tenure. The average tenure of departing vice-chancellors on a 10-year rolling average “shows that, possibly against expectations, the tenure of serving vice-chancellors has been rising and that, on average, vice-chancellors have served for a little over eight years when they stand down”.
