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Graduates delight as Academia places in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 for the fourth year running

Academia continues to expand its offering outside of its Education business and into B2B with a recruitment drive of 12 graduates to support all parts of the business.

London, September 16, 2013: Academia, a leading technology solutions provider, today announces its fourth consecutive year in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 list. Full details of this years list can be found at visit our website

The Tech Track league table ranks Britain’s top 100 privately owned tech companies with the fastest-growing sales over the last three years. The Tech Track is compiled by Fast Track, the leading networking events and research firm focusing exclusively on top private UK companies. The Sunday Times publishes the Tech Track every September and celebrates with an awards event in November.

Mike Bacon, managing director at Academia, said: “Everyone at Academia is absolutely delighted to be placed in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100, but we are even more excited that we will be opening up our doors to 12 more graduates. Local employment is very important to us and we want to encourage enthusiastic graduates to apply as soon as possible.”

Established in 2003, Enfield based Academia has a work hard, play hard environment, and this excellent balance leads to the company having fantastic long standing employees with great company minded goals. Academia believes it is important to invest in young people, providing them with the skills and knowledge to further their career; it recognises graduates are the future and so commitment in this area is crucial.

For more information on the graduate scheme, please visit: our website

Notes to Editors:

Academia is a fast-growing, highly accredited, award winning international group of tech companies. Specialising in the supply of software, hardware, services and training solutions to Education, Government, Charity, Business and Pro Media markets.

Established in 2003 and based in the UK, Academia Group employs 80 dedicated professionals reaching over 20,000 customers.

Academia has rocked the UK tech industry placing in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 for the past 4 years!

For more information, please visit: visit our website www.academia.co.uk

Apply to – Lorissa Cole: recruitment@academia.co.uk

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