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Organisations & Bodies

Organisations

  • ACM Association of Computing Machinery
    ACM delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

  • ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
    The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education provides a forum for problems common among educators working to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses, as well as syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy.

  • AIS (Association for Information Systems)
    AISNet - a web portal designed to provide information management scholars with a single entry point to resources related to information systems technology.

  • BCS (British Computer Society)
    BCS is the leading professional body for those working in IT. They have over 60,000 members in more than 100 countries and are the qualifying body for Chartered IT Professionals (CITP).

  • CPHC (Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing)
    The Council of Professors and Heads of Computing exists to promote public education in Computing and its applications and to provide a forum for those responsible for management and research in university computing departments.

  • IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology)
    Delivering industry information to benefit engineering and technical professionals the world over.

  • IEEE Computing Society
    The IEEE Computer Society's vision is to be the leading provider of technical information, community services, and personalized services to the world's computing professionals.

  • SEI (Software Engineering Institute)
    The SEI is a federally funded research and development center conducting software engineering research in acquisition, architecture and product lines, process improvement and performance measurement, security, and system interoperability and dependability.

Funding & Supporting Bodies

  • JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
    The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research.

  • Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
    The Government has long been committed to enabling all children and young people to reach their full potential. This requires a strong lead in securing integrated children's services and educational excellence.

  • EduServ
     Eduserv is a not-for-profit , professional IT services group. Our aim is to realise the benefits of ICT for learners and researchers at every level. We do this both through the successful services we provide and in the research that we fund as a result of our success.

  • NFER: National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
     The aim of NFER is to improve education and training, nationally and internationally, by undertaking research, development and dissemination activities and by providing information services.

  • EU Funding - CORDIS
     CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service for Science, Research and Development, is the official source of information on the seventh framework programme (FP7) calls for proposals; it offers interactive web facilities that links together researchers, policymakers, managers and key players in the field of research.

  • The Lifelong Learning Programme
     The Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) is a European funding programme which supports education and training across Europe.

Research Councils

  • EPSRC (The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council )
    We are the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing around £740 million a year in a broad range of subjects – from mathematics to materials science, and from information technology to structural engineering.

  • ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
    The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. We aim to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government.

  • RAE 2008
    The Research Assessment Exercise is conducted jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL).

  • Research Councils UK
    Each year the Research Councils invest around £2.8 billion in research covering the full spectrum of academic disciplines from the medical and biological sciences to astronomy, physics, chemistry and engineering, social sciences, economics, environmental sciences and the arts and humanities.

Quality Control

Statistics in UKHE Institution

  • HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency)
     The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is the official agency for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative information about higher education.

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