25 years of national devolution: a more diverse and sustainable sector?

Over the last quarter of a century, higher education policies have diverged and evolved across the UK’s nations. HE professionals in each nation face unique challenges and opportunities. Our different governments, regulators and institutions have sought, and continue to seek, different answers to the shared challenge of higher education sustainability. This keynote shares reflections on devolution as a laboratory of higher education policy and sustainability and what this might mean for higher education professionals this time of political and policy uncertainty, and makes the case that it is England which is often the exception, not a divergence in the devolved polities.