The Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), the largest research centre in the world specifically focused on higher education and its future development, launched in London on 2-3 February. Based at UCL’s Institute of Education, CGHE will enable academics from across the globe to collaborate on research which will inform and improve higher education policy and practice.

It has been backed by more than £6 million in funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), with partners including Lancaster University, the University of Sheffield and international universities including Australian National University (Australia), Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), Hiroshima University (Japan), Leiden University (Netherlands), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa).

CGHE Director Simon Marginson said:

Our job is to use research and critical analysis to anticipate developments in higher education in the UK and across the world – to help position higher education institutions and systems to better meet society's long term needs.

CGHE’s research projects are summarised below and further details are available at www.researchcghe.org.