Maintaining the value of a degree is a priority for universities.
As we emerge from the pandemic, now is an opportunity to reaffirm and strengthen our commitments to fair, transparent and reliable degree classification.
Everyone who applies to university should be able to trust that they will be treated fairly throughout the application process. Our Fair Admissions Review made a series of recommendations for improving transparency and public understanding in admissions practices.
A new report from the Royal Anniversary Trust has set out actions that the UK tertiary education sector and government should take to accelerate progress towards net zero.
In the UK and abroad, we connect higher education leaders, share insights, influence policy and create opportunities. We’re the collective voice of UK universities on the international stage.
Our mission is to harness the power of the UK’s universities and create the conditions for them to thrive. We are their collective voice, bringing them together to pursue a common cause: thriving universities, serving society.
Universities in England have committed to reversing pandemic grade inflation in first and 2.1 degrees.
In a first of its kind statement Universities UK (UUK) and GuildHE members have committed to return to pre-pandemic levels of ‘upper’ degree classification by 2023.