The following institutions are deemed as ‘aware but not quite there’ in terms of joining the UK federation. This means that we think the institutions listed are well aware of the introduction of the UK Access Management Federation, but are currently hitting barriers preventing them from taking forward the application to join. If you work at one of these institutions and can give us any more information, we would love to hear from you - particularly to discuss what those barriers might be.

Aston University
Bishop Grosseteste University College
Bournemouth University
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Canterbury Christchurch University College
City University
Cranfield University
Dartington College of Arts
Edinburgh College of Art
Harper Adams University College, Newport
Institute of Education
Liverpool Hope University College
Newman College
North East Wales Institute
Norwich School of Art & Design
Oxford Brookes University
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Roehampton University
Rose Bruford College
St Marys College
Swansea Institute of HE
The University of Northampton
University of Bedfordshire
University of Lancaster
University of St Andrews
University of Teeside
University of Wales College, Newport
University of Wales, Bangor
University of Winchester
York St John University

The following HE institutions are deemed as ‘nearly there’ in terms of joining the UK federation, i.e. we are fairly sure that we will see a membership request popping up fairly time soon. If you work at one of these institutions and can give us any more information, we would love to hear from you!

Glasgow Caledonian University
London Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Open University
RHUL
University of Birmingham
University of Brighton
University of Hertfordshire
University of Reading
University of Sheffield
University of Ulster

For Category 2 institutions, please see the next post.

Encouraging institutions to join the UK Access Management Federation, regardless of the technology choice made, is the priority for my team at the moment. We will shortly be writing to all Vice Chancellors and Principals to highlight both the importance and the ease of joining the UK federation, and to support this I was asked to categorise all HE institutions in to groups according to their current readiness to make this move.

It seems silly not to generally share this information for a variety of reasons - but most importantly to make sure that we have a good understanding of the status and position of each HE institution. All of the information we have compiled in based on previous contacts and discussions, but might not reflect the true status of an institution. The following posts summarise the position that we think institutions have reached - and we are incredibly keen to hear from each and every HE institution in the UK to make sure that we have got this right!

Two final points:

• many thanks to the 56 HE institutions that have already made the move and joined the UK federation - you can relax.
• we haven’t forgotten FE, and will shortly be announcing some new measures to support uptake for FE institutions.