The Education UK website – www.educationuk.org – is an essential source of information about studying in the UK for international students and agents.

It aims to present the UK as an exciting, innovative study destination and help international students to find the institution, course and scholarship of their choice.

The Education UK website is promoted through all our channels of communication, reaching millions of prospective students worldwide each year. It is cited as the second most used resource after Google by prospective international students looking for information about studying in the UK (Hobsons research 2008).

Find out:

			how the website is managed
			how to promote your institution to international students
			how to update your free listings on the website

How the website is managed

The Education UK website was re-launched in 2010 with a fresh new look, interactive functionality and multi-media content. The new site is managed by a number of suppliers, each experts in their field:

			SapientNitro, a leading digital agency, developed and built the new website in consultation with British Council. Sapient Nitro are responsible for managing the design, presentation, data-mapping and functional development of the website. If you have comments relating to any of these aspects, please contact the Education UK Website team. Course, institution and scholarship data is supplied by UCAS and Hotcourses.
			Hotcourses are responsible for managing advertising sales and bookings with UK institutions on behalf of the British Council. If you want to enquire about advertising on the website, please contact Daniel Staves.
			The Guardian are responsible for producing editorial content for the website, bringing their editorial expertise together with the British Council to deliver an inspirational experience to international students.

Promoting your institution to international students

The Education UK website gives you the chance to actively promote your UK school, college or university directly to students around the world who are actively interested in studying overseas.

Find out more here: http://www.britishcouncil.org/eumd-products-advertising.htm or contact Daniel Staves at Hotcourses.

Members of the Education UK Partnership are offered a discount on all Education UK profile and advertising services.

Update your free listings on the website

The Education UK website has a comprehensive database that enables international students to search for UK institutions, courses and scholarships.

Suitably accredited UK institutions can list their institution, courses and scholarship for free on the site.

To find out if you are eligible, please view our criteria here http://www.britishcouncil.org/eumd-partnership-eligible.htm

To update your institution/course/scholarship information, please see the following contacts:

			Higher education and English language (accredited by Accreditation UK) course data: This is supplied to the website by UCAS on a regular weekly feed. To update or change your course data, please contact the UCAS course team Please note: UCAS collect higher education course data as part of their core business. You do not need to re-supply data to UCAS for the Education UK website if you already do so for other purposes.
			Non-higher education vocational course and boarding schools data This is supplied to the website by Hotcourses on a regular weekly feed. To update or change your data at any time, please contact Hotcourses Please note: Hotcourses collect vocational course data for the Skills Funding Agency. You do not need to re-supply data to Hotcourses for the Education UK website if you already do so for this purpose.
			Scholarship data This is supplied to the website by Hotcourses. If you need to update or change your scholarship data at any time, please contact Hotcourses
			Institution or subject profile This is managed by Hotcourses If you would like to update this or purchase a profile, please contact Hotcourses.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Education UK Website team.