DIUS partner organisations

Research Councils

• Research Councils UK
• Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Sector Skills Councils

• Asset Skills (property, housing, cleaning services and facilities management)
• Automotive Skills (automotive)
• Cogent (oil, gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, nuclear, polymers and petroleum)
• ConstructionSkills (construction)
• Creative & Cultural Skills (advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts)
• Energy & Utility Skills (electricity, gas, waste management and water)
• e-skills UK (information technology)
• Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) (financial services)
• GoSkills (passenger transport)
• Government Skills (central government)
• Improve (food and drink manufacturing)
• Lantra (environmental and land-based industries)
• Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) (community learning and development; further education; higher education; libraries, archives and information services; and work-based learning)
• People 1st (hospitality, leisure, travel and touris)
• Proskills (building products, coatings, extractives, furniture, glass, paper and printing)
• Semta (science, engineering and manufacturing)
• Skillfast-UK (fashion and textiles)
• SkillsActive (active leisure and learning)
• Skills for Care (social care)
• Skills for Care & Development (social care, children and young people's workforces)
• Skills for Health (health)
• Skills for Justice (justice)
• Skills for Logistics (logistics)
• Skillsmart Retail (retail)
• SkillsActive (sport and recreation, health and fitness, the outdoors, playwork, caravan industry)
• Skillset (creative media)
• SummitSkills (building services engineering)

Other DIUS partner organisations

• Becta
• British Academy
• British National Space Centre (BNSC)
• British Standards Institution (BSi)
• Copyright Tribunal
• Council for Science and Technology (CST)
• Design Council
• Energy Technologies Institute (ETI)
• Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB)
• Film Industry Training Board (FITB)
• Foresight
• Foundation Degree Forward (FDF) (funded by HEFCE)
• Foundation for Science and Technology (FST)
• Government Office for Science (GO-Science)
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
• Intellectual Property Office
• Investors in People (IiP)
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• Joint International Unit (JIU)
• Learning and Skills Council (LSC)
• Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
• Learning and Skills Network (LSN)
• National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
• National Skills Academy
• National Student Forum (NSF)
• National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML)
• Office for Fair Access (OFFA)
• Ofsted
• Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA)
• Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE)
• Royal Society
• Student Loans Company
• Technology Strategy Board (TSB)
• Training & Development Agency (TDA)
• Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
• University for Industry (Ufi)
• UK Accreditation Service (UKAS)
• UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)
• UK Skills