GuildHE
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GuildHE, formerly the Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP), is a British
membership organisation representing the heads of higher education
institutions - from some of the most recently designated universities and university colleges, specialist colleges and other bodies providing higher education programmes. The chair is Professor Ruth Farwell
, Vice Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University.
GuildHE is one of the two formal representative bodies for Higher Education in the UK. It is a Company Limited by Guarantee and a Charity. It was founded in the late 1970s as the Standing Conference of Principals, registered as a company in 1992 and was renamed as GuildHE in 2006.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
membership organisation representing the heads of higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
institutions - from some of the most recently designated universities and university colleges, specialist colleges and other bodies providing higher education programmes. The chair is Professor Ruth Farwell
Ruth Farwell
Prof Ruth Farwell BSc , PhD is currently Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive at Buckinghamshire New University.Farwell held a research fellowship in theoretical physics at Imperial College, London, in the early eighties. Her research is at the boundary between applied mathematics and theoretical...
, Vice Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University.
GuildHE is one of the two formal representative bodies for Higher Education in the UK. It is a Company Limited by Guarantee and a Charity. It was founded in the late 1970s as the Standing Conference of Principals, registered as a company in 1992 and was renamed as GuildHE in 2006.