Centre for Global Higher Education 2020-2023

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Higher education, which includes universities and some colleges, is a large, growing, dynamic and internationalised sector that is strongly connected to communities across the UK and around the world. In the last five years the world tertiary enrolment rate has risen from 33 to 40 per cent of the school leaver age cohort. Half of all young people in the UK now enter higher education. New knowledge in the form of published research is doubling every 12 years. Knowledge is increasingly important for economies and societies, especially in the form of fast changing technologies at work and in daily life, in cultural products like books and films, and in the development of students for work and living. Knowledge shapes and changes us. It adds to our understanding, brings us closer to others and expands what we can do.The ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) conducts research on global, national and local aspects of higher education. CGHE is a partnership of six UK universities (Oxford, the UCL Institute of Education, Lancaster, Sheffield, Bath and Durham) and nine international universities on five continents. It brings together an active network of 30 university researchers. CGHE is the UK's first international centre in higher education research. Its work is published in books and academic papers, and in short briefs for policy makers and the public. Its research is often discussed in the media and on social media.Research on higher education draws on several social science disciplines, especially economics, sociology and psychology. It ranges across teaching and learning, delivery technologies, data analytics, research and its evaluation, governance and management, social participation, graduate employment, the contribution of universities to regions, international students, development education and more. CGHE was established because it was recognised that (a) at the base of practical problems of teaching and learning, policy and management there are long term issues open to research and (b) deeper understanding of the changing global context of higher education and research ias essential to the sector in the UK. CGHE's fundamental mission is to use research to find ways and means of making higher education institutions more effective, more efficient, more economically useful and more socially inclusive. CGHE is also an important source of information about trends in higher education, and examples of good practice.In the Centre Transition phase of its work in 2020-2023, CGHE moves from a primary emphasis on new investigations and data gathering to (1) the completion of scientific outputs, (2) communicating the outcomes of its research to policy makers, higher education practitioners and the public, and (3) securing the maximum impact of the research in the form of improvements to higher education provision and additions to higher education policy.