ARC Annual Conference and Exhibition 2025

Conference Packages

Member

Non-member

Full attendance - 2 nights' accommodation

£548

£658

Full attendance- 1 nights' accommodation

£452

£520

Monday Day Rate - no socials or accommodation included 

£212

£255

Tuesday Day rate - no socials or accommodation included

£212

£255

Monday & Tuesday day rate only- no socials or accommodation included

£300

£360

Conference dinner ticket (for those purchasing day rate packages only)

£120

£120

Exhibitor

About Us

Stand

Advanced Secure Technologies

Advanced Secure Technologies offers high-security certification solutions to protect universities from degree fraud. Our technologies secure printed documents, electronic documents, and digital badges. Our Digital Certificates platform sets a global standard for secure electronic and print certification. Additionally, Blockchain Paper® enhances document security for certificates, parchments, and transcripts worldwide. Through our STOP FRAUD program, we continuously innovate to keep customers ahead of evolving fraud risks. At the ARC Conference 2025, we are launching Biometric ID to support Know your Student® and Know Your Graduate® challenges, to secure, streamline and improve the onboarding processes for students and graduates.

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AHEP Consulting

AHEP Consulting is the consulting arm of the Association of Higher Education Professionals, committed to excellence in higher education management. Our consultants bring extensive experience across the sector, delivering projects and reviews that drive meaningful improvement and impact. We work closely with our clients to enhance professional service practices and strengthen sector performance.

Our unique consultant model combines the expertise of HE professionals with the strength of AHEP’s network. Each consultant is an AHEP member with deep sector knowledge, allowing us to offer bespoke solutions that balance external insight with sector-specific understanding. By working collaboratively, we draw on diverse skills and perspectives to deliver inclusive, multi-faceted outcomes that reflect best practice and innovation in higher education.

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BetterExaminations

BetterExaminations is a modern, end-to-end exam management and eAssessment platform built for Higher Education. Supporting digital, paper-based, and hybrid exams, our easy-to-use, cloud-based system enables institutions to securely create, manage, deliver, and proctor assessments - on campus or remotely, anywhere in the world. Trusted by universities and colleges globally, BetterExaminations empowers academic teams to broaden assessment methods, reduce administrative workload, and improve operational efficiency. With seamless integration into leading systems and support for over 50 question types, our platform adapts to diverse academic and assessment needs. Our hybrid-first approach lets institutions combine traditional and digital assessments within a single platform, ensuring consistency, security, and accessibility for every candidate.

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Burman Recruitment

Burman is a specialist recruitment agency dedicated to the Higher and Further Education sectors. We pride ourselves on deep industry knowledge and a consultative, partnership-led approach that supports both clients and candidates. Our expertise spans a range of specialisms, including Academic Registry, Student Management Systems, Change & Transformation, Finance, Estates, HR, IT, and Infrastructure. By focusing on these core areas, we’re able to offer tailored solutions that address the specific needs of the HE and FE landscape. Our vision is to become a trusted community hub for the sector, connecting the right people, fostering long-term relationships, and contributing to meaningful change across the sector.

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CMP Solutions

We support employers with workplace relationship issues. Our team of over one hundred hand-picked experts provides workplaces with more than six thousand days' worth of support annually. Since 1989, we have been the partner of choice for UK employers, and our extensive experience and scale allow us to meet any HR and ER problem or strategic goal. CMP has over thirty years’ experience as a lead provider in the specialism of consultancy, training and services relating to interpersonal conflict at work.

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Ellucian

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Evasys

evasys is the market leading supplier to UK HE. It provides a holistic, integrated, end-to-end survey process that transforms approaches to collecting institutional feedback and producing actionable
insights.

Our approach is different. We are not salespeople. Our focus is on partnering with institutions and developing a long-term relationship. The four managers have all worked in universities, collectively representing over 60 years’ experience. This expertise minimises institutional risk, cost and timescales during implementation, and maximises benefits in the short and mid term.

evasys enables:

• higher response rates
• academic staff interaction with the survey process
• instantaneous reporting at all stakeholder levels
• reflections on teaching and learning practice
• feedback loop closure so that students know their voices are heard and acted on
• actionable insights and MI for academic leaders
• machine learning AI to harvest insights against free-text comments
• integrations with multiple institutional systems, creating efficiencies and reducing administrative burden on staff
• efficient automation

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Explorance Global Ltd.

Explorance empowers higher education institutions with next-generation feedback analytics to accelerate the insight-to-action cycle. As a collaborative partner, Explorance aligns with institutions that embrace a feedback culture, where open and courageous conversations are encouraged to drive purpose, impact, and growth. In an AI-driven world where feedback is a critical tool that can lead to improved decision-making, Explorance stands by the philosophy of "Feedback for the brave.” Committed to amplifying the voices of students, staff, and faculty, Explorance tailors its solutions for institutions to advance vital initiatives through student and employee feedback: Teaching Effectiveness, Learning Excellence, Student Experience, Staff Engagement.

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Hague Group

One of the UK's leading security printers with over 80 UK University customers. Hague provide secure documents, holograms, graduation infilling services, Exam paper solutions, Student ID cards & E-Cert software. Hague are delighted to be a sponsor of ARC again this year and very much look forward to discussing our services with both existing and prospective University customers.

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JSS Search

The Higher Education team at JSS Search delivers tailored recruitment solutions across a wide range of professional and academic services roles. The team has extensive experience placing candidates into strategic, operational and project-focused positions. Our dedicated Registry team - Liv Davies, Eloise Peters and Ellie Bowdidge -recruit for permanent, fixed-term and interim roles across the full student journey. We connect institutions with student-focused, values-driven professionals who make a meaningful impact. With UK-wide reach and in-depth sector expertise, we shape our approach to each institution’s needs. Our collaborative, long-term partnerships support the growth of high-performing professional services teams.

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Marston Events Ltd

In these times of tight budgets and limited resources, Marston will assist you in providing great graduate and guest experiences at your graduation ceremonies. Marston do will the heavy lifting for you with our reliable, open and capable staff making things as easy for you as they can, whether before the day, on the day or after your event. We will be there for you delivering for you and your stakeholders for ticketing, academic dress for students, academic staff, VIPs and Officers, and high quality photography services with rapid delivery of long lasting images. To find out more please come to our stand.

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Niico LTD

Niico is the leading AI and Automation platform built for the Education sector. We support some of the UK’s top higher and further education institutions to simplify and enhance how their teams work by making it easy to automate their operations — saving time and reducing costs, without disrupting existing systems.

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Prospects Hedd

Prospects Hedd is the UK higher education system’s official degree verification service. Managed by Jisc, Prospects Hedd was launched in 2011 to help protect students, graduates, universities and employers from degree fraud. We do this through secure online verification, as well as providing a central degree fraud reporting service. When institutions use Hedd, we take care of all communications with third-parties saving you time and resource. With more than 1.5 million degrees verified since its inception, Hedd has set a benchmark for secure and efficient academic credential verification. Learn more about us at hedd.ac.uk.

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Secure and Confidential Documents Ltd

As specialists in secure print for education, we're seeing how modern digitally printed papers are actually providing robust solutions to many of today's assessment challenges. Our digitally printed exam papers combine the best of both worlds - cutting-edge technology in production with the reliability of physical delivery. Each exam paper has the potential to be personalised, offering a level of service and security that's proving valuable in the age of AI. With regards to certification, SCD's hybrid approach is addressing a key industry challenge. While digital certificates offer immediate cost savings, the lack of universal standards for digital credential storage and sharing can limit their practical value. That's why we're offering combined solutions - high-quality printed certificates backed by digital versions. At ARC 2025, SCD looks forward to discussing how we can harness technology intelligently in assessment delivery and explore practical solutions that enhance security and accessibility while maintaining reliability.

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Symplicity

Symplicity, a global leader in Student Services technology, has been a trusted partner in higher education for over 20 years. Symplicity Advocate, launched in 2011, is a highly configurable case management solution that empowers universities to address vital student concerns such as mental health and wellbeing, conduct and complaints, money advice and safeguarding. With over 300 partners worldwide, Advocate has emerged as a market-leading solution. Across the UK, 30+ prestigious universities have chosen Advocate to drive efficiency, build trust with students, meet regulatory requirements and generate meaningful professional services data. Explore how Symplicity is reshaping Student Services wellbeing and conduct at www.symplicity.com.

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TechnologyOne

TechnologyOne is a global Software as a Service (SaaS) company. Their enterprise SaaS solution transforms business and makes life simple for universities by providing powerful, deeply integrated enterprise software that is incredibly easy to use. The company takes complete responsibility to market, sell, implement, support and run solutions for customers, which reduce time, cost and risk. OneEducation, its student-centric, end-to-end ERP SaaS solution for the Higher Education sector is used by more than 50 per cent of the UK’s universities. The comprehensive and scalable software platform integrates seamlessly, providing a holistic approach to managing finance, student records management, human resources, procurement, payroll, asset management, and other key areas of university administration. By consolidating disparate systems and automating manual processes, OneEducation enables universities to improve decision making, provide an exemplary student and employee experience and importantly, improve their cybersecurity credentials.

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Thesis SM

Thesis SM is a cloud-native student information system designed to streamline and enhance core institutional operations. Thesis SM serves as the engine of your institution, fostering a seamlessly connected campus ecosystem that promotes an efficient, collaborative, and scalable educational environment.

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Tribal Group plc

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Worktribe Ltd

Worktribe is a UK-based company that has worked solely in the higher education sector since 2011. Trusted by more than 70 institutions, Worktribe’s intuitive cloud-based platform offers a powerful suite of tools for seamless Curriculum and Research management. Worktribe’s Curriculum Management platform transforms curriculum development with better collaboration, more efficiency and transparency; it is intuitive, secure and easily integrates with other systems. Worktribe reduces administrative burdens, streamlines approval processes, and ensures consistency of programmes and modules from development through to delivery. By continuing to collaborate with the higher education sector with a “configuration not customisation” approach, Worktribe works hand in hand with institutions to develop software which empowers their teams now and in the future. They are proud to be supporting ARC and sponsoring this year’s conference. Visit the Worktribe stand to chat with one of the team and see how their software can assist your administrators and academics.

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