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The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
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Who leads it
- Professor Osama Shafique Minhaz KhanDirector · since 2026
- Prakash GhediaDirector · since 2026
- Luke Dunstan SparkesDirector · since 2026
- Joanne Frances MillerDirector · since 2025
- Professor Catherine Jane NormingtonDirector · since 2025
- Alistair James Bradbury JarvisDirector · since 2025
- Justin James Van WijngaardenDirector · since 2024
- Daragh Michael KellyDirector · since 2024
- Professor James Alexander Miller FrseDirector · since 2023
- Patricia Ann CarvalhoDirector · since 2022
- Professor Colin Gareth BaileyDirector · since 2020
- Mark Benjamin FelixDirector · since 2019
- Tessa Jane YatesSecretary · since 2019
Previous officers 137
- Edward Morrison Astle 2025-2026 View profile
- Matt Tee 2025-2025 View profile
- Dr Benjamin Duncan Calvert 2023-2025 View profile
- Melody Stephen 2022-2024 View profile
- Simon John Bates 2022-2025 View profile
- Professor Colin Bryan Riordan 2021-2023 View profile
- Katharine Rachel Purser 2021-2022 View profile
- Shuvo Saha 2021-2025 View profile
- Kathryn Trudy Norris-Grey 2020-2024 View profile
- Professor Koenraad Lamberts 2019-2020 View profile
- Caroline Hoddinott 2019-2025 View profile
- Professor Malcolm Colin Press 2019-2025 View profile
- Professor Elizabeth Tulip Treasure 2019-2021 View profile
- Thomas Jack Newman 2019-2022 View profile
- Professor Sally Louise Mapstone 2018-2023 View profile
- Edward William Peck 2018-2025 View profile
- Sian Elizabeth Thornhill 2017-2019 View profile
- Professor Karen Ann Stanton 2017-2019 View profile
- Thomas William Chambers 2017-2024 View profile
- Robert Fredrick Behrens 2017-2019 View profile
- Professor Robert Anthony Cryan 2015-2018 View profile
- Andrew Fraser Forbes 2015-2022 View profile
- Professor Toby Dominic Brodigan Salt 2013-2017 View profile
- Gerard Patrick Pennell 2013-2021 View profile
- Professor Joy Carter 2013-2020 View profile
- Dr David John Ashton 2013-2021 View profile
- Terence Michael Grote OBE 2013-2016 View profile
- Michele Sutton 2013-2014 View profile
- Dame Janet Patricia Beer 2013-2017 View profile
- Sir Ian David Diamond 2013-2018 View profile
- Professor David Norman Frank Fleming 2013-2015 View profile
- Professor Sir Steven Murray Smith 2013-2019 View profile
- Caragh Merrick 2013-2016 View profile
- Dr James Mcgeorge 2012-2013 View profile
- Professor Janet Patricia Beer 2012-2013 View profile
- Allan Graham Foulds 2012-2012 View profile
- Liam James Burns 2011-2013 View profile
- David Paul Adelman 2011-2013 View profile
- Professor Ellen Douglas-Cowie 2010-2013 View profile
- Rama Shankaran Thirunamachandran 2010-2013 View profile
- Aaron Ross Porter 2010-2011 View profile
- Peter John Walsh 2009-2013 View profile
- Dr Tim James Westlake 2009-2013 View profile
- Professor Dame Joan Kathleen Stringer 2009-2013 View profile
- Lynette Ann Cutting 2009-2013 View profile
- Professor Sir David Stephen Eastwood 2009-2012 View profile
- Colin Charles Tagg 2009-2010 View profile
- Wesley Paul William Streeting 2009-2010 View profile
- Professor David Butcher 2008-2013 View profile
- Brian Robert Foster 2008-2011 View profile
- Pamela Thorn Taylor 2007-2009 View profile
- Professor Antony John Chapman 2007-2013 View profile
- Susan Margaret Tuckett 2007-2008 View profile
- Dr Ambrose Joseph Smith 2007-2011 View profile
- Michael David Jesnick 2007-2009 View profile
- Connie Jean Cullen 2006-2010 View profile
- Norman David Black 2006-2010 View profile
- Timothy Keyes 2006-2011 View profile
- Paul Ashdown 2005-2007 View profile
- Professor John David Leaver 2005-2007 View profile
- Professor Neil Thomson Gorman 2005-2013 View profile
- Sir Alastair Muir Russell 2005-2009 View profile
- John Ryan 2005-2013 View profile
- Michael George Nicholson 2005-2006 View profile
- Professor Robert Fiddy 2005-2007 View profile
- Professor Eric Jackson Thomas 2005-2009 View profile
- Jane Catherine Nelson 2005-2013 View profile
- John Philip Morgan 2005-2012 View profile
- Dr Nigel Martin 2004-2005 View profile
- Steven John Cannon 2004-2012 View profile
- Professor Kenneth Lloyd Bell 2003-2006 View profile
- Dr John Michael Gledhill 2003-2006 View profile
- Jonathan Andrew Bursey 2003-2005 View profile
- Dr Christine Elizabeth King 2002-2007 View profile
- Margaret Florence Rudland 2002-2005 View profile
- Jane Anne Struthers 2002-2005 View profile
- Professor Anthony Cryer 2002-2008 View profile
- Dr Melvyn James Kershaw 2002-2004 View profile
- Michael Alcock 2001-2009 View profile
- Professor Michael John Howard Sterling 2001-2005 View profile
- Anthony Pitcher 2001-2003 View profile
- Professor Sir Robert George Burgess 2001-2011 View profile
- Professor Vernon David Vandelinde 2001-2006 View profile
- Neil Alan Hopkins OBE 2001-2009 View profile
- Prof Brown, CBE, Michael Alan 2001-2005 View profile
- Professor Richard Robert Barnett 2000-2003 View profile
- Professor William Stewart Stevely 2000-2005 View profile
- Richard Sperrin Fawcett 2000-2001 View profile
- Prof David Graham Vaughan 2000-2009 View profile
- Hugh Michael Pearson 1999-2007 View profile
- Eira Elizabeth Makepeace 1999-2003 View profile
- Professor Timothy Jerome Wheeler Dl 1999-2005 View profile
- Dugald Mabon Mackie 1999-2004 View profile
- Dr Kathleen Iris Millar 1999-2000 View profile
- Professor Kenneth James Overshott 1999-2001 View profile
- Miles Stuart Hedges 1998-1999 View profile
- Professor Ian Miller Jamieson 1998-2001 View profile
- Lynne Sedgmore 1997-1997 View profile
- Alison Kerr Scott 1997-2001 View profile
- Prof Bernard King 1997-2000 View profile
- John Roger Tredwell 1997-2005 View profile
- Dr Philip James Cheshire 1997-2002 View profile
- James Robertson Graeme Wright 1997-2000 View profile
- Roger Michael Geoffrey Clark 1997-2003 View profile
- Dr Stephen Leigh Bristow 1997-2002 View profile
- Brian Anthony Roper 1996-2002 View profile
- Ian Bevan Tailby Caves 1996-1997 View profile
- Professor Norman John Taylor 1996-1999 View profile
- Dr Renee Bella Paton 1995-1996 View profile
- Sir David Melville CBE 1995-1996 View profile
- Mary Patricia Sellers 1995-1996 View profile
- Professor John Maxwell Irvine 1995-2001 View profile
- Stirling Maurice Wisener 1995-1999 View profile
- Professor Graham John Zellick 1994-1997 View profile
- Sir John Ernest Dunford 1994-1997 View profile
- Susan Helen Stobbs 1994-1995 View profile
- Dr Julian Colin Axe 1993-1997 View profile
- Peter Bryan Hodson 1993-1997 View profile
- Michael Alan Miller 1993-1997 View profile
- Dr Michael Goldstein 1993-2001 View profile
- Dr Christopher Ben Turner 1993-1999 View profile
- Dorma Jane Urwin 1993-1999 View profile
- Lord Sutherland 1993-1995 View profile
- Roderick George Livingston 1993-1999 View profile
- Christopher John Sparrow 1993-1997 View profile
- Michael Sadler-Forster 1993-1996 View profile
- Keith Bruce Thompson 1993-1995 View profile
- Professor Samuel Berrick Saul 1993-1997 View profile
- Professor David John Edward Ingram 1993-1995 View profile
- Danya Young 2017-2019 View profile
- Helen Cornish 2012-2017 View profile
- Wendy Louise Trainor 2012-2012 View profile
- Richard Lee 2011-2012 View profile
- Mary Elizabeth Curnock Cook 2011-2011 View profile
- Michael John Spittle 2005-2011 View profile
- Graham Gerald Lewis 1993-2005 View profile
- Philip Abercrombie Oakley 1993-1993 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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Public contracts won
1 contract · £240,000 totalFrom Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.
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Pre-Applicant Communications
Pre-Applicant Communication to Students
About
- Incorporated
- 27/07/1993
- Also a registered charity
- The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
Group
No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.
3 other companies in this group
Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
12 directors on the board
- Professor Osama Shafique Minhaz Khan Director · appointed 2026
- Professor Catherine Jane Normington Director · appointed 2025
- Alistair James Bradbury Jarvis Director · appointed 2025
- Joanne Frances Miller Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Colin Gareth Bailey Director · appointed 2020
- Justin James Van Wijngaarden Director · appointed 2024
- Prakash Ghedia Director · appointed 2026
- Daragh Michael Kelly Director · appointed 2024
- Professor James Alexander Miller Frse Director · appointed 2023
- Patricia Ann Carvalho Director · appointed 2022
- Mark Benjamin Felix Director · appointed 2019
- Luke Dunstan Sparkes Director · appointed 2026
Directors past 6 years
- Mark Benjamin Felix Director · appointed 2019
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (3)
- Prakash Ghedia Director · appointed 2026
- Daragh Michael Kelly Director · appointed 2024
- Mark Benjamin Felix Director · appointed 2019
Portfolio (9)
- Professor Osama Shafique Minhaz Khan Director · appointed 2026
- Professor Catherine Jane Normington Director · appointed 2025
- Alistair James Bradbury Jarvis Director · appointed 2025
- Joanne Frances Miller Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Colin Gareth Bailey Director · appointed 2020
- Justin James Van Wijngaarden Director · appointed 2024
- Professor James Alexander Miller Frse Director · appointed 2023
- Patricia Ann Carvalho Director · appointed 2022
- Luke Dunstan Sparkes Director · appointed 2026
Also govern a charity
- Professor Osama Shafique Minhaz Khan Place2BE
- Professor Catherine Jane Normington Shama Womens Centre
- Professor Colin Gareth Bailey Queen Mary, University of London Foundation
- Professor James Alexander Miller Frse Universities UK
- Patricia Ann Carvalho Bethel Health and Healing Network
- Luke Dunstan Sparkes Teach First, Confederation of School Trusts
Left in the last 12 months
- Edward Morrison Astle Director · appointed 2025 · resigned 2026
- Dr Benjamin Duncan Calvert Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2025
- Matt Tee Director · appointed 2025 · resigned 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 02839815
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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