Our sector
We work with many organisations in the UK and abroad to help support our members and the student experience. Here are links to some of those organisations.
UK organisations
Here are some UK organisations in the higher education and student support-related sectors.
Funding bodies
- Department for Employment and Learning (DEL)
- Medr / Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (CTER)
- Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
- Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
- Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS)
- Student Finance England (SFE)
- Student Finance Wales (SFW)
- Student Loans Company (SLC)
- Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE - archive)
- Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW - archive)
Quality and regulatory bodies
- Quality Assurance Agency (QAA)
- Office for Students (OfS)
- Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIAHE)
- Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted)
- Office for Fair Access (OFFA - archive)
Professional associations
- Academic Registrars' Council (ARC)
- Association for International Student Advisers (AISA)
- Association for Student Residential Accommodation (ASRA)
- Association of Colleges (AoC)
- Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS)
- Association of Heads of University Administration (AHUA)
- Association of Higher Education Professionals (AHEP)
- Association of Managers in Higher Education (AMHEC)
- Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO)
- Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE)
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Universities and Colleges (BACP UC)
- British Universities Finance Directors Group (BUFDG)
- College and University Business Officers (CUBO)
- Committee of University Chairs (CUC)
- Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE)
- Heads of University Counselling Services (HUCS)
- Higher Education Business Continuity Network (HEBCoN)
- Higher Education Liaison Officers Association (HELOA)
- Immigration Compliance Network (ICN)
- National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP)
- National Association of Managers of Student Services in Colleges (NAMSS)
- National Association of Student Money Advisers (NASMA)
- National Network for the Education of Care Leavers (NNECL)
- Professional Association of Specific Learning Difference Specialists in Higher Education (PASSHE)
- Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL)
- Student Health Association
- Student Volunteering Network (SVN)
- UK Advising and Tutoring (UKAT)
- UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE)
- Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA)
- Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA)
- Universities Human Resources (UHR)
- Universities Safety and Health Association (USHA)
- University Mental Health Advisers Network (UMHAN)
- Work Based and Placement Learning Association (ASET)
Other
- Action on Access (HEFCE and DELNI)
- Advance HE
- Brightside
- Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO)
- Counselling Directory
- Equality and Human Rights Comission (EHRC)
- Jisc
- Office for Disability Unit
- Office of the Immigration Services Commisioner (OISC)
- Student Minds
- Study UK
- Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
International organisations
Here are some of the many international Student Affairs / Services associations and related organisations.
United States of America
- American College Health Association (ACHA)
- American Counseling Association (ACA)
- Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)
- Association of International Educators (NAFSA)
- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA)
- College Student Educators International (ACPA)
- National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)