Partner Institutions

Anglia Ruskin

Anglia Ruskin University was awarded university status in 1992 and today we are one of the largest universities in the East of England with over 20,000 students. Our main campuses at Cambridge and Chelmsford attract students not only from the East of England but in increasing numbers from mainland Europe and from further afield.  The academic community is grouped into five Faculties which cover an array of subjects including english, creative and performing arts, social sciences, education, health, social care, life sciences, communications technology, computer science, architecture, sustainable construction, planning and business management.  For further information please visit www.anglia.ac.uk

University of Bedfordshire

The University of Bedfordshire is committed to providing an effective and supportive learning environment for all its students, providing challenging and innovative teaching and learning. The University was created in August 2006 following the merger between the University of Luton and DMU’s Bedford campus, and since that time we have achieved outstanding success, with high quality teaching, outstanding student support and excellent personal, career and professional development.  We work closely with employers on our curriculum whilst forging close links with UK companies to provide a broad range of training and industry accredited programmes. For more information please visit http://www.beds.ac.uk/

University of Hertfordshire

The University of Hertfordshire is an ambitious and entrepreneurial university that offers excellence in learning, teaching and research and puts students at the heart of its activities. It’s a model of a 21st century university, international, business-facing and business-like in approach - making it distinctive in an ever-changing higher education environment. Its £120 m new de Havilland campus is acknowledged as Europe’s most significant higher education development in the last 20 years and is part of over £200 m spent on new investment.  A further £100 m is committed for the next five years.  The University is also one of the region’s largest employers with over 2,500 staff and a turnover of more than £160 million. It has a student community of over 24,000, including more than 2,000 international students from over 85 different countries and a global network of over 100,000 alumni. For more information, please visit www.herts.ac.uk

Sutton Trust

The Sutton Trust is a charity founded in 1997 by Sir Peter Lampl with the aim of promoting social mobility through education. The Trust’s focus is on improving educational opportunities for non-privileged young people through research and policy work as well as practical projects.  In the last decade, the Trust has funded a range of initiatives spanning the early years, primary and secondary school, further and higher education and access to the professions.  Please visit www.suttontrust.com for more information.

Villiers Park Educational Trust

The Trust is recognised as a national expert in provision for post-16 Gifted and Talented students.  It has over forty years’ experience of working with able students and their teachers – approximately 2,000 delegates take part in over 100 Villiers Park activities each year.  Courses are held at its residential conference centre near Cambridge and at schools, colleges and universities nationally.  Projects in partnership with Young Gifted and Talented include the provision of online extension activities for AS/A2 students at www.ygtactivities.org.uk.  An advisory service supports FE and Sixth Form Colleges’ use of Institutional Quality Standards. Please go to http://www.villierspark.org.uk for more information about us and our range of G&T activities for 2008/2009