Chris Husbands
@chrishusbands.bsky.social
Director, Higher Futures; NED and chair; former vice-chancellor and academic. Still cyclist, dad, grandad and European. All opinions my own.
📆 NEXT WEEK: New choices: Revisiting futures for higher education in England Join us, @hepi-news.bsky.social, @chrishusbands.bsky.social, @marycurnockcook.bsky.social, Prof Rachel Mills & @bobbyduffy.bsky.social to examine the converging challenges facing HE ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/new-c...
EVENT: New choices: Revisiting futures for higher education in England Join us, @hepi-news.bsky.social, @chrishusbands.bsky.social, @marycurnockcook.bsky.social, Prof Rachel Mills and @bobbyduffy.bsky.social to examine the converging challenges facing the HE sector ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/new-c...
Last week, HEPI published my report 'New Choices: revisiting strategic futures for higher education in England'. This morning, I have summarised the argument for the HEPI blog www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/29/n....
Delighted to see that the LSE podcast on HE mergers is now live blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
University mergers: head, heart, and hidden costs - LSE Higher Education
With UK universities facing severe financial pressure, merger talk is everywhere. In this podcast, Elisabeth Hill, Chris Husbands, and Huw Morris warn that purely financially driven mergers without st...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
In this morning's HEPI blog, I look at recent discussion of HE and outline the choices facing government and universities www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/05/12/n...
New Government, familiar problems – By Chris Husbands - HEPI
Universities face stark choices as financial pressures mount, political support wanes, and sector-wide reform looms.
hepi.ac.uk
A privilege, as always, to talk to Nic Mitchell for @uniworldnews.bsky.social for this troubling piece – with great insights from @chrishusbands.bsky.social, Janice Kay, @marycurnockcook.bsky.social and others www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Universities struggle to adapt to changing student cohorts
University leaders in the United Kingdom are struggling to keep up with the changing size, make-up and expectations of international and domestic stud...
universityworldnews.com
In our new Higher Futures Insight piece, Janice Kay and I look at the questions universities need to ask about engaging rapidly changing student populations higherfutures.co.uk/new-rules-of...
New rules of engagement - Higher Futures
As university leaders think about strategic positioning for the next decade, they need to think equally hard about how they will engage more diverse student populations impacted in such different ways...
higherfutures.co.uk
Sound reflections (as ever) from @chrishusbands.bsky.social on how change and collaboration are necessary in confronting the future of HE, and they should be embraced, not feared. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/01/w...
WEEKEND READING: Change is our ally by Professor Sir Chris Husbands - HEPI
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, who was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University between 2016 and 2023, and is now a Director of Higher Futures, work...
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"If government is not the solution, if the private sector is not the solution, if the status quo is not sustainable, the answer must be imaginative and engaged leadership which is not simply about ‘my institution’ but also about ‘our future’." @chrishusbands.bsky.social bit.ly/3CHmQZy
WEEKEND READING: Change is our ally by Professor Sir Chris Husbands - HEPI
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, who was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University between 2016 and 2023, and is now a Director of Higher Futures, work...
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