Hotcourses Ltd

Hotcourses is a privately owned company, founded in 1996 by Mike Elms and Jeremy Hunt, now Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport and the Olympics. Hotcourses produces guides and websites that feature schools, colleges and
universities and the courses they run. People access these offline and online publications as
they pursue educational opportunities for themselves or their families.
With offices in London (UK), Chennai (India), Sydney (Australia), and Brockton, Maryland (USA). Hotcourses is the largest
publisher of guides to courses (over 500,000), colleges and universities in the UK.
Hotcourses.com
The company is responsible for the education website, Hotcourses.com that provides
information on courses, schools, colleges and universities as well as funding opportunities and
career options. It lists undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees, leisure courses and professional development courses.
Providers can sign up online and update or amend their information. Every week Hotcourses
collects information on thousands of new courses and adds them to the site. All undergraduate
information is supplied by UCAS. The Hotcourses family of websites are visited by over 35 million people every year searching for evening courses, degrees, postgraduate degrees, professional training, leisure courses, courses abroad and schools.
Hotcoursesabroad.com
Hotcourses runs websites in 21 countries in 15 languages to help international students with their study abroad choice. For example a Chinese student can search for MBA or many other programs in Chinese and look for places to study in the UK, USA, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore. With the growing number of students that choose to study abroad every year, Hotcourses local language websites play a vital role in their decision making process of selecting a program and institution at which to study. In 2009, the Hotcoursesabroad suite of 21 different local language sites were visited by 9.7 million students seeking to study abroad.
Awards
Hotcourses was awarded an entry on The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For in 2009. Hotcourses scored highly in the following categories: ‘Employees think the company does a lot to support the environment’ and ‘The company makes a positive difference to the world we all live in’.
Hotcourses Foundation
In 2004, Hotcourses launched the Hotcourses Foundation, a charity that provides education to
children in the developing world. In March 2009, a new Hotcourses Foundation website was developed, and £250,000
of funding secured to build a secondary school in Kitui. In February 2010, the
Lawson Secondary School opened in Kitui, Kenya. The Hotcourses Foundation supports the education of over 500 orphaned children at the Hotcourses Primary School. Most of the childrens' parents died of HIV-related illnesses. Since its opening in 2005 the school has been become highly rated in Kenya, particularly for its music and dance. Hotcourses donates 5% of its profits to the Foundation as well as raising money from other sources.

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