Meet the sponsors

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Founded in 2013, Kortext is a digital content and student experience expert leading the way for the global education community to embrace digitally enhanced teaching and learning. It does this through its cutting-edge content discovery and study platforms, and by supplying market-leading learner analytics that empower institutions to enhance education for the next generation of difference makers.

Kortext champions inclusivity in education and works closely with its partners to provide equity of access and experience for all students, improving access to and engagement with learning content and, ultimately, driving outcomes.

This year sees Kortext celebrate its 10th anniversary – a decade of supporting institutions in their mission to boost student engagement, drive outcomes and streamline workflows through its cutting-edge platforms and a growing selection of digital teaching and learning tools.

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Partners

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is a global, mission-driven association of leading business schools.

Founded in 1953, GMAC is committed to creating solutions for business schools and candidates to better discover, evaluate and connect with each other. In support of this vision, mission and purpose, GMAC provides world-class research, professional development opportunities and assessments for the postgraduate management education industry.  

GMAC is actively committed to advancing the art and science of admissions by convening and representing the industry and offering best-in-class products and services for schools and students.

GMAC also owns and administers the GMAT™ exam, used by more than 7,700 postgraduate programmes worldwide and taken by more than 200,000 candidates every year. 

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Cengage is a global education and technology company built for learners whose products create learning experiences, building confidence and momentum toward the future students want. Cengage has a single belief – that every student has the potential to be unstoppable –and designs tools that keep them moving toward their goals.

The recently launched Cengage Unlimited for Institutions is a content subscription service that provides student and faculty with access to the entire Cengage collection of digital learning platforms, etextbooks, online assignments and study tools with ease and seamless delivery.

With quality content available across a wide range of subject areas, from accounting, finance and economics to leadership, organisational development and entrepreneurship, Cengage Unlimited for Institutions provides all the materials you require for your MBA programmes. Digital courseware and mobile access enable teaching and learning anytime and anywhere, supporting your programmes, whether these are delivered full time or part time, through classroom, online or blended learning formats.

cengage.co.uk

Barco is a global company with headquarters in Kortrijk, Belgium. Its visualisation and collaboration technology helps professionals accelerate innovation in the healthcare, enterprise and entertainment markets.

It employs more than 3,000 visioneers whose passion for technology that is captured in more than 500 unique patents. Barco is a listed company and realised sales of €1,058 million in 2022.

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The #1 CRM, Salesforce for Education helps institutions boost productivity and power lifelong impact.

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Sponsors

McGraw Hill is a global pioneer in educational content, assessment, training and platform innovation; and is one of the world’s largest educational companies, with products and services in more than 60 languages and 130 countries. It is focused on creating solutions that deliver real value and support your teaching and learning goals, whether at primary, secondary, tertiary levels or beyond.

McGraw Hill’s most recent innovation is Total MBA – a digital teaching and learning toolkit designed to support MBA programmes. Powered by Connect®, Total MBA helps your institution orient your MBA cohorts into their journey, understand their needs in those critical early weeks and pinpoint any gaps in their understanding.

To go beyond and foundations of your programme, Total MBA Plus (Plus) offers a complete solution to support teaching and learning across your entire MBA programme, no matter the pathway or specialism. With Plus, academics can pick and choose end-to-end resources to support the delivery of a complete MBA programme.  

SMRS is a culture, brand and communications agency. Its team helps educators and employers across the UK and beyond find, keep, inspire and include people. By doing so, SMRS changes organisations and the world around them for the better.

From marketing and brand campaigns to cultural consultancy, SMRS’ work moves people. It informs decisions, opens doors and levels playing fields. It transforms life chances as well as organisational performance. SMRS is proud of the difference it makes.

smrs.co.uk/education/

Explorance is a provider of people insight solutions. The company empowers organisations with actionable decision-making by measuring students’ and employees’ needs, expectations, skills, knowledge and competencies.

Through scalable tools, including Blue, BlueML and Metrics That Matter, as well as expert-based services, Explorance facilitates continuous improvement and accelerates the insight-to-action cycle, leading to personal growth and organisational agility.

Explorance’s flagship product is the people insight platform Blue – an all-in-one feedback solution that enables higher education institutions to better understand the student life cycle. By automating feedback collection processes, such as course evaluations, mid-term surveys, peer reviews and more, Explorance helps to ensure an equivalent learning experience for all, improving teaching effectiveness and fostering student success.

Founded in 2003, Explorance is headquartered in Montreal with business units in Chicago, Chennai, Melbourne, Amman and London. Explorance works with 25 per cent of the top higher education institutions, including many of the world’s leading business schools.

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Insendi empowers business schools to deliver the highest standards of online and blended education through a unique learning experience platform designed by educators for educators.

Led by the belief that online education should be a pedagogically rich, human-centred learning journey, Insendi provides a cutting-edge platform with a range of learning design and development services to equip educators with the most innovative tools to build and run high quality, high-impact online courses. 

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Give your students the content they need with Perlego, your online learning library of more than one million books from leading higher education publishers. Perlego works in partnership with more than 200 institutions worldwide to enable teaching excellence and support digital innovation with affordable and seamless access to online materials.

Students and faculty shouldn’t have to learn a new interface every time they open a book. Students can benefit from an enhanced learning experience, via Perlego’s online reader and app. Study features like notes and highlights, saved across all books in a handy notebook, make studying more engaging while instant citations and referencing features save them time.

Reduce the number of tools your faculty needs to adopt with a whole library in one platform. Faculty can also create workspaces to group recommended and required reading with books across Perlego, as well as external links. With the ability to create reading assignments, faculty can track student progress easily, spot areas where additional support is needed and use the metrics to plan their next class.

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ETS’ belief in the life-changing power of learning is at the root of everything it does — it’s behind the tools it develops to move learning forward, the research that inspires educational progress and the commitment it makes to enable opportunity for learners everywhere.

ETS administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually, including the TOEFL® and GRE® tests, in more than 180 countries and at more than 9,000 locations worldwide.

As partners in supporting institutions’ programme and student success, the GRE Program team is committed to providing information and guidance to help you achieve your admissions and recruitment goals, including increasing diversity and inclusion.

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Trusted by 715+ institutions to build communities and drive retention, Ready Education is a leading mobile student engagement platform on a mission to improve student success in higher education worldwide. 

Its student-centric mobile solutions meet students where they are and improve communications, access to resources and engagement across campus. With student adoption rates of more than 90% and high app ratings, the platform could beessential to crafting your digital student experience.

Business schools across the world leverage Ready Education’s platforms to build communities, support student organisations, host events and engage their alumni network.

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Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education and meaningfully improving learning outcomes. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. 

Turnitin products are used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programmes to uphold integrity and increase learning performance, as well as by students and professionals to do their best, original work. 

turnitin.com 

With over a decade specialising in graduate management education, Media Minds is a boutique marketing services agency with real experience in the sector. It offers a portfolio of services delivering real results against client goals – from raising a School’s visibility to building reputation, recruiting students, attracting corporate partners, or engaging its alumni community.  

The team has extensive knowledge of education marketing from working in business schools, agencies and the media. Its senior leaders each have more than 15 years’ experience in the sector, enabling them to apply knowledge and insights to achieve results for clients. Deep experience underpins work with undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education programmes within business schools and cross-university. Services include market research and intelligence, media planning & buying, digital marketing, alumni relations and communications consulting, and professional development workshops. 

No big promises or fancy marketing: just real experience, real insights, real results. 

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BlueSky Education is the media consultancy of choice for many of the world’s most prestigious universities and business schools.

Over the past 15 years, BlueSky Education has earned a reputation as a leading PR agency for the business education market in the UK and Europe. It knows the education industry and takes the time to get to know its clients.

BlueSky Education works with you to identify and target the sort of coverage you are looking for, as well as thinking about what your customers will want to learn about you. With your specific institutional goals at the forefront of this process, it crafts compelling stories and shapes narratives for your key audiences. Its talented in-house experts include a former BBC journalist as well as trained reporters who have written for Forbes, the Financial Times, PR Week, EFMD and more.

bluesky-pr.com/higher-business-education 

Studiosity’s mission is to increase life chances and wellbeing of students everywhere. It does this by working with university partners to provide students with personal, routine and formative feedback right at the point of need – those 10pm study moments where students need a confidence boost to check they are on the right track, helping to develop their capacity for higher-order thinking skills that are critical for success in higher education.

studiosity.com

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process. By connecting international students, academic institutions, and recruitment partners on a single online platform, ApplyBoard drives qualified student applicants and diversity to more than 1,750 campuses across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland. Founded in 2015, ApplyBoard has helped more than 600,000 students along their educational journeys.

applyboard.com

Austral Education Group (Austral Group) is an educational services firm that organises global business immersions and consulting experiences for business school programmes around the world. It designs and delivers high-impact educational content, customised academic travel with seamless logistics and cultural activities that provide an unforgettable immersion experience.

Austral Group offers business students the opportunity for personal interaction – whether online or in-person – with senior executives from multinational corporations, renowned economists, senior government officials, entrepreneurs and disruptors shaping the business environment worldwide.  

australgroup.com 

Studyportals is an international study choice platform, helping students find and compare their study options across borders. Its mission is to empower the world to choose education.

With more than 200,000 published courses from approximately 3,750 participating higher education institutions and around 45 million users, Studyportals is a leading information source for study seekers. At the same time, the company’s results-based channels support universities with digital marketing, analytics and international student recruitment, enabling them to reach a global audience and diversify their student population. 

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Since 2014, Edunakho Group has educated and supported prospective students in making informed degree choices by showcasing real experiences and stories from universities and business schools with video as the key medium.

Edunakho Group is the parent company of MBATUBE and MASTERTUBE, as well as its sister portals MBAGRADSCHOOLS and MASTERGRADSCHOOLS.

Today, more than 450 institutions from every continent share their content on its platforms.

Edunakho Group can influence the decisions of your future students with tailored content marketing (editorial and video), driving traffic and leads through bespoke video productions, YouTube advertising, sponsored editorial content, direct mailings and display advertising. Take a look at its websites:   

The Case Centre is the independent home of the case method. A not-for-profit organisation and registered charity, we advance the case method worldwide to inspire and transform business education across the globe.Access to the best management cases, articles, book chapters and instructor materials available worldwide is provided at thecasecentre.org, and includes facilities to search, preview and purchase for instant download. The Case Centre also offers many services to support the writing and teaching of cases including training, scholarships, awards and materials on the case method. The Case Centre’s distribution service allows authors to make their cases available to a global audience. 

Virtual Internships is a leading edtech company that provides the only platform that can guarantee 100 per cent of your students an internship in their career field and region of choice in less than a month. With more than 250,000 opportunities across 80+ countries that are designed to meet the needs of any campus size, we match your students with companies, give training and career support and boost employability.

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