Support for governance effectiveness is an integral part of the Advance HE offer. Its strategy to 2024 includes a commitment to evolve higher education governance, which states:
Good governance is critical to delivering impactful HE and confidence and trust for stakeholders. Yet we know that understanding what is effective in your context is needed more than ever to navigate turbulence and be fit for the future. We will build on our unparalleled track record of supporting and developing governors, governance professionals, institutions and systems of governance across the world.
As an Advance HE Associate, I have had the opportunity to be involved in a number of aspects to support this commitment, for instance via analyses of governance effectiveness survey benchmark data (at an institutional basis and to understand governance performance and future challenges at a sector level) and undertaking an evaluation of the impact of Advance-HE’s governance effectiveness reviews on institutions. This evaluation feeds into Advance-HE’s ongoing work to evolve the support it provides to the sector.
