At this meeting, representatives from different Islamic societies agreed to form a national body to look after the interests of Muslim students at universities.

At that time, the organisation was named FOISS (Federation of Islamic Student Societies) and it was renamed later that year to its current variation of FOSIS.

Dating back to the early 1960s, FOSIS were one of the first groups in the UK to host Malcolm X in 1964 (also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) on a speaking engagement.

Since then, some of the world's most influential Islamic scholars and preachers such as Ahmed Deedat, Khurram Murad and Imam Siraj Wahhaj have visited FOSIS to address Muslim students.

Representatives of FOSIS have appeared on BBC News and contributed articles for The Guardian newspaper under the Comment is Free[1] section.