The Student Room

The Student Room Group (often referred to as TSR) is a UK-based privately held student community company. It owns four major student-facing websites: TheStudentRoom.co.uk, TheUniGuide.co.uk, GetRevising.co.uk and MarkedByTeachers.com and two commercial facing websites: tsrmatters.com and tsrinsight.com.

The Student Room Group Limited
The Student Room
TypePrivate
IndustryStudent Community, eLearning, Higher Education Marketing
PredecessorAcumen Professional Intelligence Limited and Student Media Services Ltd.
Founded1 March 2002 (2002-03-01)
FounderCharles Delingpole
Headquarters
Brighton
,
England, U.K.
Area served
Global
Key people
  • Chris Newson (Chairman)
  • Marcus Palmer (CEO)
  • Paul Cernicharo-Terol (Sales Director)
  • Amii Lanham (Commercial Operations Director)
BrandsThe UniGuide, Get Revising, TSR Insights, Marked by Teachers
OwnerChris Newson, Charles Delingpole + others
Number of employees
70
Websitethestudentroom.co.uk

TheStudentRoom.co.uk
The Student Room
Type of site
Student community and social learning site
Available inEnglish, with a dedicated multilingual sub-forum
HeadquartersUnited Kingdom
Area servedWorldwide with UK bias
OwnerThe Student Room Group Ltd.
Founder(s)Charles Delingpole
Key peopleMarcus Palmer, Chief Executive Officer
Employees70
URLthestudentroom.co.uk
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The Student Room (often abbreviated to TSR), established in 1999, is a United Kingdom based community and social learning website for school and university students.

It connects students with other students so that they can make more informed education choices, get help with their studies and get support with student life.

TheUniGuide.co.uk

The Uni Guide provides advice on the university application process, as well as guides to UK universities and courses. These guides include statistics from a variety of sources[1] including the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the National Student Survey (NSS) and Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO). The Uni Guide was formerly Which? University and was acquired by The Student Room Group in February 2020.[2]

MarkedbyTeachers.com

www.markedbyteachers.com uses selected examples of real student work to help students learn. It has 150,000+ pieces of work written by UK students,[3] of which many are also critiqued by UK teachers or peer-reviewed by students.[4]

GetRevising.co.uk

www.getrevising.co.uk contains a broad range of supplementary social learning tools including flashcards, quizzes, word searches, mindmaps, crosswords, revision notes, quiz searches and revision cards. Students create their own resources which they can then share with peers.[5]

Get Revising is also home to a study planner and revision timetable creator.[5]

Staff & volunteers

The Student Room employs around 70 people, based both remotely and in its Brighton office.

The Student Room forum is also staffed by a team of volunteers and helpers who help manage the community output on the forums.

Forum structure of The Student Room

The Student Room forum is divided into eight main sections.

  • Study Help - where students can get help with homework and coursework
  • University Courses - where students can get advice on university courses
  • Universities - advice on specific universities
  • Careers & Jobs - for discussions about volunteering, career sectors and job applications
  • Life & Style - a general section that includes forums on health, relationships and fitness
  • Entertainment - a general section that includes forums on sport, music and TV shows
  • Debate & Current Affairs - for discussion of news and politics
  • Chat - for general chat and anything that doesn't fit into the other sections

Each of these sections has a number of forums and sub-forums.

History

The Student Room forum was created in around 2001 under its original name UK Learning. Launched by Charles Delingpole[6] as a site where students at university could talk to each other, the forum has since developed into a site for all young people. The UK Learning name was changed to The Student Room in late 2004.

See also

References
  1. "Information sources on - The Uni Guide". www.theuniguide.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  2. "About - The Uni Guide". www.theuniguide.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  3. "Marked by Teachers Home Page". Marked by Teachers. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  4. "Marked by Teachers Why Sign Up". Marked by Teachers. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  5. "Get Revising - create a resource". Get Revising. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  6. Whitwell, Joe. "The Student Room Founder Charles Delingpole Talks Building A Business At University". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
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