Manchester ranks high in school governor registrations

21 Jan 2013

A new league table shows that Manchester is fourth in the country for school governor registrations via School Governors’ One-Stop Shop (SGOSS), ranking higher than many famous names in the private and public sector.

UMSGI recruitment event in November 2012

SGOSS, the University’s partner charity in its School Governor Initiative (UMSGI), had already confirmed that we were the leading employer in the North West for state-school governor recruitment and this ranking shows where our campaign sits in relation to other top employers across the whole of the UK.

Manchester is the only member of the Russell Group and the campus-based HE sector more generally to appear in the top 20.

Head of Social Responsibility Julian Skyrme said: “This is a real credit to all our staff who have enthusiastically taken up these opportunities outside of working hours - and says something important and impressive about their values and culture.”

Rank	Organisation	Employees recruited to SGOSS 24/06/11 - 31/12/12
1	NHS	99
2	Open University	69
3	Teach First	66
4	The University of Manchester	51
5	Lloyds	48
6	HSBC	47
7	Barclays	45
8	KPMG	44
9	HMRC	>43
10 =	BT	39
10 =	RBS	39
10 =	Ministry of Defence	39
13 =	Fujitsu	33
13 =	E-Teach	33
13 =	Department for Education	33
16	Ernst and Young	24
17	Deloitte	20
18	Department of Works and Pensions	19
19	PwC	15
20	HM Treasury	14

Some next steps to be taken by UMSGI include presenting School Governing as an officially-badged opportunity for our alumni in London/South East in the summer, which will help widen and enhance our impact further again.