Monday, August 26, 2013

York University

Awards and achievements

The University of York is one of the success stories in UK higher education. Since our foundation in 1963, we have powered our way to a consistently high ranking in the UK and are one of just six post-war universities which appear in the world top 100.

Times Higher Education Awards

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In the last five years we have won five prestigious Times Higher Education Awards:

2012: Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers
2011: Outstanding Engineering Research Team, member of the Widening Participation Initiative of the Year partnership
2010: University of the Year
2009: Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development
2008: Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiative

Queen's Anniversary Prize

York is a five-times winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for research in the following departments and centres:

Athena SWAN

York holds seven awards from Athena SWAN for supporting women scientists:

three bronze awards for
- the University as a whole
- the Department of Computer Science
- the Department of Electronics
three silver awards for
- the Department of Biology
- the Department of Physics
- the Department of Psychology
a gold award for the Department of Chemistry.

Rankings

Research Assessment Exercise

8th out of 159 higher education institutions in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

Oxford University

Welcome from the Chancellor

Welcome to the University of Oxford. People from all walks of life and all parts of the world have been visiting us for nine centuries and we are delighted that via this website you are joining that long tradition. Oxford was the first University in the English-speaking world. Our aim is to remain at the forefront of centres of learning, teaching and research.

Oxford’s remarkable global appeal continues to grow. Students from more than a hundred and forty countries and territories make up a student population of over twenty thousand. Over a third comes from outside the United Kingdom.

But it is not just longevity and global reach that mark Oxford out and give the University its special character. There is also our distinctive college and tutorial system which underpins a culture of close academic supervision and careful personal support for our outstanding students. Our colleges and halls of which there are more than forty also help to foster the intense interdisciplinary approach that inspires much of the outstanding research achievement of the University and makes Oxford a leader in so many fields. It is an approach especially suited to confronting many of the hugely complex challenges that face us all. That is why we believe that the greater we can make Oxford, the greater its contribution to the well-being of the world you and I share.

UCAS College

Vision and mission

Our vision is that UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.

Our mission is:

creating value for members through shared services; and
delivering admissions services that help applicants make the right choices, for the right reasons and with the right outcomes.

Customer focus

At UCAS, universities, schools, colleges and prospective students are at the heart of everything we do, and every decision we make.

We're committed to delivering a first-class service to all our customers. Our dedicated teams pride themselves on going above and beyond expectations.

Customer feedback is crucial, it helps us continue to grow and improve our services across all channels. If you’d like to get in touch with any suggestions, please email us – feedback@ucas.ac.uk.

Employee excellence

If you've received outstanding service from a UCAS employee we'd love hear all about it.

Your positive feedback helps us continually improve the way UCAS interacts with customers, so we can offer exceptional service as standard.

Just let us know the employee’s name, what they did, and why they deserve recognition.

We’ll make sure your appreciation is passed on!

Please email your comments to employeeexcellenceawards@ucas.ac.uk.

AVIVA Insurance

Aviva provides insurance, savings and investment products to 34 million customers worldwide.

To learn more about Aviva visit our corporate website www.aviva.com.

Aviva UK

We are the UK’s largest insurer with over 14 million customers and one of Europe’s leading providers of life and general insurance. We combine strong life insurance, general insurance and asset management businesses under one powerful brand. We are committed to serving our customers well in order to build a stronger, sustainable business, which makes a positive contribution to society, and for which our people are proud to work.

We are ranked as one of the UK’s top ten finance brands and Aviva Plc is in the top 10% of socially responsible companies globally in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. In 2012 we invested £5.7m into our UK communities. One in three of our employees were involved in community investment activities which included giving nearly 30,000 hours.

Aviva is working in partnership with Railway Children through the Aviva Street to School programme to get children living or working on UK streets back into everyday life, especially education.

The Aviva media centre includes company information and a news release archive.

For broadcast-standard video, please visit www.aviva.com/media/video/.

WPA Insurance

About WPA

WPA is a leading UK health insurer with a not-for-profit heritage of over 110 years.
As a Provident Association we give excellent value to our customers, not short-term shareholder gains.
We have over 80 local offices across the UK providing a service with a personal touch.
We put our customers at the centre of all we do.
We give our customers the freedom to choose.

Treating Customers Fairly

WPA are the only insurer to volunteer details of ombudsman complaints against us.
Make a complaint/provide feedback

Our Standards are High

We offer a World Class standard of service with British Standards Accreditations in all that we do.

Some of our Awards

Laing and Buisson Award 2006, 2007 and 2008 - Most innovative healthcare provider.
British Insurance Award 2005 and 2009 - Best in Customer Care
Insurance Times 2007 - Insurer of the Year

PruHealth

PruHealth is backed by two large International financial services companies - Prudential and Discovery Holdings. More recently PruHealth acquired Standard Life Healthcare in 2010.

Prudential plc is an expert in finance. Discovery Holdings is the leading South African private medical insurance company that pioneered rewarding people for healthy living.

We draw on these core strengths of product innovation and financial expertise to offer you the most flexible, comprehensive and rewarding private medical insurance around.

Award-winning private medical insurance

Our experience is recognised, with our awards including Best Individual Private Medical Insurance Provider of the Year 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 at the Health Insurance Awards.

No wonder almost 600,000 people in the UK trust us to care for their health.

Simply Health

Who we are, what we stand for

In a world where so many people can't be bothered, we're proud to be the healthcare company that can.

We believe in helping people access affordable healthcare and delivering exceptional personal customer service. We have over three million customers, and help nearly four million people, including 20,000 companies who choose us as their healthcare provider. Simplyhealth now also includes Denplan, the UK's largest provider of dental plans, which helps nearly two million people to access dental care and treatment.

You may have known us as HSA, BCWA, HealthSure, LHF, Totally Active, Remedi or Medisure. Our name has changed, but what's not altered is ouraward winning commitment to do the right thing by our customers.

Long term commitment

With over a 140 years of history in the healthcare market, our mission has always been to provide people with affordable healthcare, whatever the financial climate.

We're committed to our mutual values and supporting our communities. With no shareholders we only invest our profits into running the business or distribute them to worthy causes.

How can we be bothered?

We're the UK's biggest cash plan provider and a major player in the private health insurance and mobility markets. We don't just strive to do things quickly and efficiently, we aim to show every customer that we can be bothered.

Our private health insurance customers are assigned a personal contact to help them throughout their claims. Plus, there's no claim form
We always try to avoid automated phone systems, so you can speak to someone in one of our UK call centres, not an answer phone
You can call us free from UK landlines
Most of the 10,000 cash and dental plan claims we settle every day can be paid directly into a bank account within a few working days of receipt
Most customers can register for a secure online account to check claims and find copies of their policy documents
80% of our customers would recommend Simplyhealth to a friend (Source: 2010 Simplyhealth Customer Satisfaction Survey)

Direct Line Group

The company was originally established as the insurance division of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. In September 2012, the Group's Chief Executive, Paul Geddes, announced the business was "operating as a standalone insurance company", in advance of a future full divestment from the RBS Group.^[5]The company was the subject of an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in October 2012.^[6] RBS sold a 30% share of the business in the IPO, and sold a further 17% in March 2013, reducing its holding in the business to 48.5%. RBS is due to sell the remainder of its holding by the end of 2014.^[7]

Operations[edit source | editbeta]

The Group owns a number of general insurance brands operating within the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany primarily, including Direct Line, Churchill, and Green Flag.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Line_Group

First Central

1st Central

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1st Central

Industry	Insurance
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Haywards Heath, United Kingdom
Key people	Ken Acott (Chairman & Chief Executive) Patrick Tilley (Deputy CEO) Mike Leonard (Deputy Group CEO) Peter Creed (Group CUO)
Products	Car Insurance, Pet Insurance,
Employees	500+
Website	http://www.1stcentralinsurance.com

1st Central is the brand through which the First Central Group sells private motor insurance to UK car owners. The First Central Group is a collective term used to refer to companies owned by the holding company First Central Group Limited, which is based in Guernsey and headed by Chairman and Chief Executive, Ken Acott, Deputy CEO, Patrick Tilley, and Deputy Group CEO Mike Leonard. The 1st Central brand was started in 2008 by Peter Creed who previously worked with Mike Leonard at Zenith.^[1] The companies in the First Central Group include:^[2]

First Central Insurance Services Limited (1st Central or FCIS)
Skyfire Insurance Company Limited (SFIC)
First Central Insurance Management Limited (FCIM)
First Central Enterprises Limited (FCEL)
Skyfire Reinsurance Company Limited (SRCL)

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First Central Insurance Services Limited[edit source | editbeta]

First Central Insurance Services Limited (also referred to as 1st Central and FCIS) is a Gibraltar based company that sells private motor insurance within the UK via the Internet (through the price comparison websites as well as its own website) and is the customer facing brand of the First Central Group. FCIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Guernsey based First Central Group.^[3]

1st Central has written over £50m of gross written premium in its first year of business. The company has publicly set targets of £80m of gross written premium for its second year (2010).^[4]

Skyfire Insurance Company Limited[edit source | editbeta]

Skyfire Insurance Company Limited (also referred to as SFIC) is a direct personal lines insurer.

First Central Insurance Management Limited[edit source | editbeta]

1st Central Insurance policies are administered by the UK based company First Central Insurance Management Limited (also referred to as FCIM) out of their offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England which includes the sales and customer service call centres for the First Central Group and employs over five hundred people.^[5]

Gemini House
Capital House
Rockwood House

First Central Enterprises Limited[edit source | editbeta]

First Central Enterprises Limited is a UK-based company that provide white labelled price comparison website solutions to other UK financial services companies. The company operates out of the FCIM’s offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Central