Change Academy

What is Change Academy?

Change Academy brings together cross-institutional teams and gives them the time and space to think creatively and develop a major change initiative.

It is a year-long process that includes specific development opportunities for nominated team leaders, an ongoing support network and a four-day residential providing a creative environment in which the whole team can focus on planning and developing strategies for lasting change.

Change Academy is organised through a partnership between the Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

Why participate?

Virtually every higher education institution is facing the prospect of reduced funding, intensifying competition, and an increased focus on enhancing the student learning experience. The wide range of challenges and changes faced by higher education requires effective collaborative working from both academic and professional staff.

Change Academy supports both rapid innovation and capacity-building for longer-term change. It is a unique, high quality process for professional learning providing knowledge and approaches that can be cascaded more widely, access to consultants with national and international experience, dedicated support from the Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation, and a wide range of resources.

We asked the 2011 teams to tell us what they thought about their experience of Change Academy. Please view the video below to see what they said. Click here to read more about last year's teams.

Further information on the Change Academy approach and its theoretical background can be found on the Change Academy resources page.

For any queries relating to Change Academy, please contact the Change Programmes team at change@heacademy.ac.uk