Pictured above winners: Newham College of FE
Money just cannot buy the emotional high that the attendees of last week’s Awards felt. It was a night of fun, tears of joy, music, and sheer excitement.
There was pure adrenaline pumping through the veins – and that was just the organisers.
I can only imagine the ecstasy that all the different winners must have felt- especially Angela Williams, Principal of Huddersfield New College, which was named number 1 in the National Centre for Diversity’s Top 50 performing College’s list and therefore have been awarded UK ‘FE Sector Provider of the Year’ for 2016. But it didn’t end there – the College also picked up ‘Yorkshire & Humber College of the Year’ as well as ‘Most Improved College of the Year’.
It didn’t even end there. The outstanding work of Zoe Shackleton, Vice Principal of the Huddersfield New College, was recognised vis-a-vis her winning the ‘UK Employee of the Year’.
The regional awards winners were:
- New College Durham -North East FE Provider of the Year finishing at number 3.
- Halesowen College – West Midlands FE Sector Provider of the Year came out at number 5.
- Treloar Trust – South East Provider of the Year, finishing at number 7.
- South Lanarkshire- Scottish FE Sector Provider of the Year, placed at number 9.
- Bury College – North West FE Provider of the Year, placed at number 10.
- Newham College – London FE Provider of the Year, finishing at number 11.
- Truro and Penwith College – South West College award finishing at number 16.
- North Notts. College – East Midlands award with a placing of 17.
- Cardiff and Vale College -Welsh College of the Year and came in at number 25.
The Specialist College award went to the Royal National College for the Blind, who finished at number 6.
Best Newcomer Award went to South Cheshire who came straight in at number 21.
To be eligible for entry, organisations had to have completed the Investors in Diversity or Leaders in Diversity Accreditation. The placing for the above awards were determined after analysis of the College’s Investors in Diversity or Leaders in Diversity diagnostic results.
The individual awards were judged by Nikki Hosty (Yorkshire Building society), Anthony Pearce (Prospects Services), Neil Callan (Pearson Education), Graham Hasting-Evans (NOCN).
The winners were:
- Corporation Board Member of the Year – Martin Cumella, Chair of Corporation, Newham College.
- Learner of the Year – Robert Williams, Coleg Cambria.
- EDI Marketing Initiative of the Year – Barnet & Southgate College.
- FE Sector EDI Lead of the Year – Shona Lavender – Calderdale College
- FE Sector Employee of the Year- Zoe Shackleton, Huddersfield New College.
