Advance HE leadership and management resources
Advance HE has a wealth of resources to help you develop your skills and expertise as a leader in higher education.
Advance HE is a member-led charity that works to improve higher education for staff, students and society, with a particular focus on teaching and learning, governance, leadership development and equality, diversity and inclusion.
These include:
- Transition to Leadership, to help you enhance your leadership skills and become an authentic leader.
- Leading Departments, which is designed to engage, support and develop new Heads of Department to meet the operational and commercial challenges of leading and managing academic or service teams.
- Diversifying Leadership, to help you enhance your visibility and authentic leadership as a Black, Asian or minority ethnic leader.
- Aurora, a leadership development initiative for women in higher education.
- Senior Women’s Leadership Development Programme, designed specifically for women in senior positions in higher education to help you take the next step up or extend your role, profile and impact.
- Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership, designed for those in senior or strategic roles, to help you develop a strategic outlook and skill set to lead across organisational boundaries.
Advance HE also has a wealth of resources to help you develop your skills and expertise as a leader in higher education.
Next steps
Find resources to help you with your work
As a Student Services leader you need to be able to access up to date guidance, research, and examples of good practice to ensure that your approaches are impactful and informed by research and practical application.
Identify areas of Student Services expertise that you need to develop
Being a great Student Services leader isn’t just about experience. It’s about knowing your strengths, spotting what you want to get better at and staying open to learning. The best leaders keep growing, lean on their networks and find new ways to face challenges with confidence.
Consolidate or document your experience
As a busy Student Services leader you’ll have developed a wealth of experience and expertise throughout your career. But the UK Student Services sector doesn’t have a formal framework for you to record and document what you know. So you may want to consider other ways to consolidate or document your expertise in a sector-recognised format. This can be useful if you’re looking to advance in your career or argue for more pay or status.
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