GuildHE calls for university regulation overhaul

Membership body for smaller and specialist institutions lays out election priorities

The next government must make sure the “disproportionate burden” of regulation on smaller institutions is mitigated, GuildHE has said in its election wish list.

In a report detailing its priorities for the next government—the latest in a series of similar demands published by sector bodies vying for the attention of the main parties—GuildHE said it wants to see a “genuinely risk-based approach” to regulation that had students’ interests at heart and “understands and mitigates the disproportionate burden and cost of regulation on smaller institutions.”