NCUK

History of the Northern Consortium and current group structure

The Northern Consortium was created in 1987 by a set of northern UK universities to collaborate in the delivery of educational programmes on a transnational basis, and to support the progression or ‘placement’ of students from those programmes into UK universities. The Consortium operated initially as a department of UMIST and was active predominantly in Malaysia.

The founding universities established a Charity in 1993 with the charitable purpose of the advancement of education.

In 1999 the Northern Consortium became active in China and, in 2003, established a wholly owned operating subsidiary, NCUK, to support its commercial operations.

What we do

NCUK develops and maintains academic qualifications that prepare students for entry to university. The company also provides university application support services which assists NCUK students in progressing to university following the completion of their course.

NCUK franchises delivery of its academic qualifications to delivery partners, and we currently have over 80 delivery partners across 34 countries. NCUK’s Delivery Partners have an average of around 30 students and our largest partnership, the Sino British College (SBC) in Shanghai, has over 1500 students registered on NCUK pathway programmes.

NCUK currently has delivery partners worldwide.