membership matched their view of Biblical infallibility. The second area of difference was the priority of evangelism; although the SCM had initially aimed at "the evangelisation of the world in this generation", CICCU members felt that this aim was not being sufficiently emphasised by 1922. SCM's official history also refers to differences over governance. Grubb developed a vision of seeing an "evangelical witnessing community on every university campus". (At the time just 28 universities operated in the UK and Ireland.) Meanwhile, in 1919, students from Oxford, Cambridge and London CUs started to meet in London for non-residential conferences. After being persuaded to take on the secretaryship of these Inter-Varsity Conferences in 1924, King's College alumnus Dr Douglas Johnson was chosen by delegates from the 14 university Christian unions who assembled at High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon in 1928 to found the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions (IVF) as its first General Secretary, a role in which he continued until 1964. The Inter-Varsity Fellowship was the first unifying conservative evangelical body. In 1947 UCCF became a founding member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), through which it continues to play an active role in international mission. During the 1940s, CU work began in the Technical Colleges under a subsidiary body, the Inter-Colleges Christian Fellowship (ICCF), and this saw substantial growth with the formation of polytechnics, as a consequence of the increase in full-time students in that sector. Alongside this, the Colleges of Education Christian Unions (CECU) provided a similar function, supporting Christian Unions based in teacher-training colleges. Work in these areas expanded rapidly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, such that by the mid-1970s it represented half the ministry, and resulted in ICCF and CECU merging with IVF to form the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship. A specialist group, the Religious and Theological Students Fellowship (RTSF), who published the journal Themelios, retained a separate identity. Since then many colleges have themselves gained university status. Until 2007 UCCF continued to serve both the HE and FE sectors of tertiary education, but in that year a new organisation called FESTIVE – FE & Sixth Form Initiative came into being, leaving UCCF free to concentrate on HE. Key staff Douglas Johnson, Secretary, 1928–64 Oliver R. Barclay, General Secretary, 1964–80 Robin Wells, General Secretary, 1980–92 Bob Horn, General Secretary, 1992–2001 Richard Cunningham, Director, 2004–2022 (Suspended pending an investigation) Research UCCF supports biblical