Times Higher Education has won two prestigious awards at a ceremony honouring UK companies backed by private equity and venture capital funds.

É«ºÐÖ±²¥ won the national medium-sized company award and was also a winner in the regional category for London and the south-east at the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association¡¯s (BVCA) Vision 2023 awards.

The judging panel said they were ¡°very impressed¡± by É«ºÐÖ±²¥¡¯s submission, which scored highly against the four themes for growth, competitiveness, innovation, and environmental, social and corporate governance.

The prizes were handed out at a ceremony held at the London Hilton on Park Lane hotel on 22 November.

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Paul Howarth, É«ºÐÖ±²¥¡¯s chief executive, said that there was ¡°no other business quite like É«ºÐÖ±²¥ offering the breadth and depth of products and services across higher education, on a global basis¡±.

¡°É«ºÐÖ±²¥¡¯s mission is to help universities around the world continuously improve for the benefit of students and society, and I¡¯m delighted the organisation¡¯s incredible hard work has been recognised with these two prestigious awards,¡± Mr Howarth said.

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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ has been owned by private equity firms since 2005 and was acquired by Inflexion Private Equity in 2019. It now employs 327 staff and has a turnover of more than ?40 million, attracting more than 66 million website visits annually and serving more than 3,000 customers across all continents.

Headquartered in London, É«ºÐÖ±²¥?has offices in Bristol, Leeds, Washington DC, San Francisco, Singapore and Melbourne. It has gone through a period of rapid growth and this and last year has acquired four high-profile businesses: Poets&Quants, the leading provider of news and resources for prospective graduate business students worldwide; dataHE, the rapidly growing provider of code-based data analysis for UK universities; BMI, the leading organiser of international student recruitment events; and Inside Higher Ed, the US-based higher education news provider.

Michael Moore, BVCA¡¯s chief executive, said: ¡°Times Higher Education is a leading example of a business demonstrating initiative and exceptional performance in 2022. We are pleased to celebrate their growth and achievements on both a regional and national scale at the Vision awards this year.¡±