2009 Sponsors

Working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions and develop commercial low carbon technologies.

CUBO is the professional association for senior managers in higher education whose responsibilities include the strategic planning, management, administration and development of the university’s residential portfolio, catering and retail operations, and commercial income generation from business and leisure tourism.

DIUS is the government department, whose remit covers post-19 learning, boosting the take up of new technologies and delivering the skills businesses need.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England distributes public money for teaching and research to universities and colleges. In doing so, it aims to promote high quality education and research, within a financially healthy sector. HEFCE also plays a key role in ensuring accountability and promoting good practice.

JISC's activities support education and research by promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central support of ICT services.

The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive. The goal is to improve the skills of England’s young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard.

Salix Finance is an independent, publicly funded company, set up in 2004, to accelerate public sector investment in energy efficiency technologies through invest to save schemes.

Vision - for students to enjoy the highest quality learning experience in the world.

NUS Services is owned by Students’ Unions and the National Union of Students. Their mission statement is to; ‘Create, develop and sustain competitive advantages for member Students’ Unions –reducing costs and maximizing commercial revenues’.

Universities that Count (UTC) is the HE Sector Corporate Responsibility benchmarking programme. Based on Business in the Community’s Corporate Responsibility Index survey, the programme is a partnership between EAUC, BITC, CSR Consultancy and the University of Gloucestershire.