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7 February 2025 Funding, finance and operations

Our submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2025

Our submission sets out recommendations for the government at the Comprehensive Spending Review, focused on growth, opportunity, and sustainability.

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26 October 2022 Research and innovation

Our universities: generating growth and opportunity

Our universities generate growth and opportunity across the UK. They bring jobs, investment and facilities to our local communities, and will be at the heart of addressing economic and social disparities. But to do more, we need the government to work with universities.

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19 January 2023 Teaching, learning and quality

19 January 2023 Teaching, learning and quality

Our work on degree classification standards

This page brings together our work to protect degree standards since 2018.
21 July 2020 Publications

21 July 2020 Publications

Principles for effective degree algorithm design

A new set of principles for effective degree algorithm design to protect the value of qualifications.
5 September 2023 Teaching, learning and quality

5 September 2023 Teaching, learning and quality

Regulatory burden: what's the impact?

Moorhouse Consulting was commissioned by Universities UK (UUK) to assess the regulatory burden of registration with the Office for Students (OfS) for universities in England.
2 February 2023 Research and innovation

2 February 2023 Research and innovation

Research and innovation facts and figures: 2022

The UK's research is world-leading and internationally excellent. The latest data shows that universities are at the heart of research and innovation across the country.
11 September 2025 Research and innovation

11 September 2025 Research and innovation

Research at risk: impacts of financial constraints on UK universities

Financial pressures are threatening the sustainability of UK university research.
9 March 2022 Research and innovation

9 March 2022 Research and innovation

Research concordats and agreements review - Phase 2

Commissioned by Universities UK, UK Research and Innovation and the Wellcome Trust, the second phase of the Concordats and Agreements Review (CAR), brought together the initiative owners and the research and innovation (R&I) community to look for potential future alignments to increase influence, capacity, and efficiency across the landscape.
31 August 2022 Equality, diversity and inclusion

31 August 2022 Equality, diversity and inclusion

Spiking: what universities can do

Our practice note to support universities’ response to spiking as we enter the 2022–23 academic year.
3 October 2018 Publications

3 October 2018 Publications

Statement of recommended practice: accounting for further and higher education

Statements of Recommended Practice (SORPs) set out current best accounting practice for specialised industries or sectors. The Further and Higher Education SORP combines the requirements of institutions of both further and higher education in the UK.
18 May 2020 Health and wellbeing

18 May 2020 Health and wellbeing

Stepchange: mentally healthy universities

A refreshed strategic framework for mental health and wellbeing at universities.

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