Section 1: Corporate and Academic Governance

Section 1 Introduction

Bloomsbury Institute is a private company limited by shares, incorporated on 14 August 2002 and registered at Companies House for England and Wales under Company Number 04511191. The company is owned by shareholders and managed by directors (through a Board of Directors).

The Board of Directors comprises both executive directors (who are also employed by the company to undertake a specific role, e.g. Chief Executive Officer) and independent non-executive directors (who are not employed by the company). The Board of Directors is unambiguously and collectively accountable for the company's activities, and takes all final decisions on matters of fundamental concern within its remit. Subject to this, the Board of Directors can delegate its powers to committees and/or to an executive (i.e. management).

To see our full organisation structure, the organisation chart is available on request — please contact [email protected].

The company has its own Articles of Association (i.e. the company's constitutional document). The Articles set out, inter alia, the company's objects and powers, and the rules that relate to how the company operates. It is through our corporate and academic governance arrangements set out within our Articles and within the Corporate and Academic Governance Framework, that we have established a private company that is significantly different to any other private company that delivers higher education.

Download the Corporate and Academic Governance Framework and the Articles of Association.

Our Objects

Our objects, as set out in Regulation 2 of the Articles, apply to all staff and to all committees and other bodies described in Bloomsbury Institute's Corporate and Academic Governance Framework:

• To provide high-quality education and vocational training for the benefit of the public in the United Kingdom and worldwide, including the development, delivery and/or awarding of qualifications whether regulated or unregulated, by means of full-time, part-time, modular or other types of courses, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, conferences, training, blended learning, distance learning, eLearning or other methods of teaching and learning available now or in the future.
• To establish a self-critical, cohesive academic community that has a commitment to quality assurance supported by effective quality and enhancement systems.
• To support staff to engage in high-quality research.
• To actively promote and apply equality, diversity and inclusion throughout the company, and to promote an inclusive teaching and learning environment.
• To provide a high-quality student experience.

Corporate and Academic Governance Framework

Our Corporate and Academic Governance Framework is structured as follows:

• Section 2 sets out our corporate governance arrangements
• Section 3 sets out our academic governance arrangements
• Section 4 sets out our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion arrangements; these are set out separately, because they span across both corporate governance and academic governance
• Section 5 sets out how we measure performance

(Full document available via the Corporate and Academic Governance Framework PDF.)

Primary Elements, Core Values and Guiding Principles

Regulation 141 of the Articles provides that the Corporate and Academic Governance Framework shall comply with: (i) the six primary elements of higher education governance, as set out in the Committee of University Chairs (CUC) "The Higher Education Code of Governance," that embody the core values of higher education governance; and (ii) the Office for Students Regulatory Framework, Notices and Advice.

The Board of Directors is collectively responsible and accountable for institutional activities, approving all final decisions on matters of fundamental concern within its remit. The Board of Directors promotes a positive culture which supports ethical behaviour, equality, inclusivity and diversity across the Institute, including in the Board of Directors' own operation and composition.

Regulation 142 of the Articles provides that the Corporate and Academic Governance Framework shall also embrace our own guiding principles: the shareholders, directors and management should act in a way which does not detract from the need to (i) set and maintain academic standards, and (ii) assure and enhance academic quality. Students should be recognised as members of our academic community (rather than merely customers of the company) and their views should be effectively represented and acted upon where appropriate.

Corporate Governance Arrangements

The Board of Directors is unambiguously and collectively responsible and accountable for the company's activities and takes all final decisions on matters of fundamental concern within its remit. Subject to this, the Board of Directors can delegate its powers to committees and/or to management (i.e. to the executive directors and other members of the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT) and the Senior Management Team (SMT)). The Corporate and Academic Governance Framework includes a Statement of Primary Responsibilities of the Board of Directors as well as details of matters reserved to the Board.

In accordance with Regulation 4 of the Articles, the following Committees are established:

• Audit and Risk Committee
• Nominations and Governance Committee
• Remuneration Committee
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

To ensure the independence of the Audit and Risk Committee, the company's executive directors and investor directors are excluded from its membership. The Audit and Risk Committee has established an internal audit function to be undertaken by a different firm of accountants to that which undertakes the external audit function. The Remuneration Committee likewise excludes the executive directors from its membership.

Powers delegated to management: Subject to the responsibilities of the Board of Directors (in particular, decisions which could pose a significant reputational or financial risk), a number of powers are delegated to management (the executive directors and other members of the SLT and SMT).

Academic Governance Arrangements

While the Board of Directors, as the Institute's governing body, retains ultimate responsibility for academic governance, in accordance with Regulation 4.9 of the Articles the Board delegates key areas of responsibility for academic governance to the Academic Committee. The Academic Committee is empowered to establish additional committees to ensure the effective setting and maintaining of academic standards and the assuring and enhancing of academic quality, and to ensure the Expectations of the UK Quality Code for Higher Education are met.

Academic governance is managed through the following four-tier committee structure:

• Academic Committee (AC) — the senior committee delegated responsibility for academic governance by the Board of Directors, with external academic representation and student representation.
• Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee (QAEC) — the intermediate committee that includes student representation, sitting above Course Committees and below the Academic Committee, undertaking a supervisory role on behalf of the Academic Committee.
• Course Committees (CCs) — have student representation; their primary responsibility is to oversee the quality of student learning opportunities and enhancement of the student experience, and to ensure implementation of academic and non-academic regulations, policies and procedures.
• Student Staff Consultative Forum (SSCF) — convenes at least once a term to formally consider and action college-wide issues, and provides a forum for consultation on key strategic and management initiatives.

We established an independent Student Guild in 2017. All students are members of the Student Guild (subject to opt-out). Members elect student representatives to the Student Council, and to the positions of Officer Trustee and Student Trustee. Student Council Student Representatives sit on the Course Committee for their own course, are members of the SSCF, and are appointed by the Student President to the Academic Committee, the QAEC, and the Board of Directors.

Financial Statements

Our annual financial statements are published below. Click any year to download the PDF.

Value for Money Statement

We publish a Value for Money Statement for every academic year.

Committee Minutes

Below you will find the minutes of meetings for our Board of Directors, Academic Committee and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Minutes will appear on this page after they have been approved by the relevant committee.

In Bloomsbury Institute's commitment to transparency (and in accordance with our legal obligations) in making minutes of meetings available to the public, we sometimes have to redact (blank out) some items. These items are protected by law from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Meeting minute documents are available on request. Please contact [email protected] for access.

Office for Students Regulatory Framework, Notices and Advice

We are on the Office for Students (OfS) Register and are required to comply with the Office for Students Regulatory Framework, Notices and Advice, including the General Conditions of Registration and Specific Ongoing Conditions of Registration. The conditions, along with indicators of how these conditions are met, are outlined on this page.

The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England. It has imposed a regulatory requirement for Bloomsbury Institute Limited to publish and meet targets which aim to improve the continuation rates of its students. Continuation rates are a way of measuring the proportion of students who are still studying in higher education a year after they began their course. The higher a provider's continuation rate, the more of its students are still studying in this way.

Office for Students Transparency Information

Transparency Information Data 2026 — Bloomsbury Institute is required by the Office for Students (OfS) to publish transparency information relating to student outcomes, ensuring prospective students and other stakeholders have access to clear and comparable information across providers.

Provider: Bloomsbury Institute Limited. UKPRN: 10004061.

The data covers student attainment and outcomes, broken down by gender, ethnicity, and Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintile. Due to the size of the Institute's student population, many data points are suppressed ("low") to protect confidentiality, or not applicable where numbers are too small for meaningful comparison — so small cohort sizes mean year-on-year and subgroup comparisons may not be statistically robust.

The data follows OfS transparency guidance: "attainment" refers to classification of awards achieved (first class, upper second, etc.), data is aggregated/rounded per OfS disclosure control requirements, and suppression rules prevent identification of individuals.

Download published dataset (PDF) ↗