Chris Husbands

Nov 25, 2024 | hepi.ac.uk | David Hughes |Chris Husbands

Chris Husbands is a Director of Higher Futures and was formerly Vice-Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University. David Hughes is Chief Executive of the Association of Colleges. This blog is adapted from FE-HE collaboration to support a place, written by the same authors originally for the Kerslake Collection, a series of essays collated by the UPP Foundation on the theme of the Civic University. It’s always tempting to overreact to the latest news. But some big events require a response.

Jul 23, 2024 | campusreview.com.au | Martin Betts |Chris Husbands

A former vice-chancellor of a UK university has published research that outlines four possible scenarios for the future of higher education in England. Sir Chris Husbands was vice-chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University in England from 2016 to 2023, and is currently the inaugural chair of the UK Teaching Excellence Framework. The professor sees an acute need for leaders to listen to the dispossessed, who miss out on higher education.

Mar 5, 2024 | kcl.ac.uk | Chris Husbands

The quotation from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is now very well-known: “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” So the current financial woes have seemed for higher education. The undergraduate fee fixed at £9,000 in 2012 and has been increased just once, to £9,250, in 2018. It was a gradually tightening economic belt around universities through a decade of low inflation.

Jul 25, 2023 | hepi.ac.uk | Chris Husbands

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. Politicians should think big. They should think about the next frontier. They should focus government on difficult issues. Keir Starmer has committed Labour to five ambitious missions, of which the fifth is squarely focused on educational transformation. The mission is stated simply and squarely: ‘Labour will shatter the glass ceiling in Britain’.