2022 Shortlist

Business/Industry Collaboration – HE/FE Sector

Salford City College Group

The Manchester College’s Industry Excellence Academy (IEA) – ACEL

University Centre Leeds HE Science Team

West Lancashire College

— School of Medicine

Business/Industry Collaboration – University Sector

Health and Education Co-operative

Manchester Metropolitan University

— Centre for Enterprise

University of Central Lancashire

— Creative Innovation Zone

University of Salford

— Made in Salford

Social Mobility Award – HE/FE Sector

Education Partnership North East

— Cared for or Caring for; raising aspirations to remove barriers and increase life chances

Greenhead College

Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education

— National Employer Training

Huddersfield New College

New Collaborative Learning Trust

— Health and Social Care Department, New College Pontefract

Salford City College Group

Sheffield College

— SHAPE your Future Tutorial, Personal Development and Enrichment Programme

West Lancashire College

— School of Medicine

Social Mobility Award – University Sector

Sheffield Hallam University

University of Bradford

— School of Law

University of Central Lancashire

— College for Military Veterans and Emergency Services

Business Collaboration & Partnerships Award – HE/FE Sector

Askham Bryan College

— Flamingo Land Zoo partnerships

Preston College

The Growth Company Education and Skills

— Collaboration with Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and the Northern Care Alliance

University Centre Leeds Health Play Specialists

West Lancashire College

— School of Medicine

Business Collaboration & Partnerships Award – University Sector

Edge Hill University

— SME Productivity & Innovation Centre

University of Salford

— Salford Business School and Peninsula Group

University of Salford

— Ignition

Employer Engagement Award – HE/FE Sector

Education Partnership North East

— Health and Social Care Academy of Excellence

Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education

— The Skills and Employability Team’s Response to Covid

Selby College

— Selby College Business Services

The Sheffield College

— Employer Skills Academies

West Lancashire College

— School of Medicine

Wigan and Leigh College

— Developing Higher and Degree Apprenticeships with Sellafield Ltd

Wigan and Leigh College and Electricity North West

— Apprenticeship Collaboration

External Relations Team of the Year

Myerscough College

The University of Central Lancashire External Relations Team

Innovation Award

XPLOR

Grimsby Institute

— Creative interior design. “Our creative campus, our space to thrive.”

Hello Future – Future Selves

— Using learner voice to inform Hello Future outreach delivery

The Sheffield College

— Digital Development Programme

Student Experience Award – HE/FE Sector

Education Partnership North East

— Cared for or Caring for; raising aspirations to remove barriers and increase life chances

Bede Institute of Sport and Eduction

— Bede Sixth Form College

Oldham Sixth Form College Futures’ team

— Futures Beyond Covid

Priestley College

— The Graduate Programme

Salford City College Group

West Lancashire College

— School of Medicine

Research Project of the Year

Community Engagement Award – HE/FE Sector

Askham Bryan College FLEX programme

Cheshire College

— South & West

New College Durham

— Heart and Sole Project

Community Engagement Award – University Sector

Edge Hill University

— Tackling the Blues

Newcastle University Students’ Union

— North East Solidarity and Teaching

University of Central Lancashire

— the Lancashire Science Festival

University of Salford

— Law/SILKS

Community Engagement Award – Schools

Mental Health and Wellbeing Award

Edge Hill University

— Tackling the Blues

Hopwood Hall College

Manchester Metropolitan University

— MetMUnch Social Enterprise/ GROW Cafe

Priestley College

— Wellbeing Team

Salford City College Group

Selby College

— Wellbeing Team

St John Rigby College

— A Trauma Based Approach to Mental Health Support

University of Central Lancashire

— Mental Health Education and Wellbeing Services in the Community

University Centre Leeds Student Support

Wakefield College

— A whole college approach to mental health and wellbeing

Digital Education and Development Award

Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education

Newcastle College

— Learning Technologies and Innovation Group / Skills for Classrooms & Workplaces of the Future

Preston College

SCC Group

— Embracing Digital pedagogy

Swarthmore Education Centre

— Swarthmore Connected

The Manchester College

— Creative & Digital Media Tutors with Ideas Foundation – Virtual Work Experience

The Story Makers Company, Carnegie School of Education & Leeds Beckett University

— Online Story Weaving

University of Central Lancashire

— Centre for Collaborative Learning

University of Central Lancashire

— Grenfell Baines Institute of Architecture Hong Kong and United Kingdom

University of Salford

— University of Salford and SN@P Invigilation Centre

Teaching Excellence Award

Birkenhead Sixth Form College staff

Burnley College Sixth Form Centre

Laura Denton – Grimsby Institute

Mihaela Stanescu

— HE Biomedical Sciences, University Centre Leeds (Leeds City College, Luminate Education Group)

UK Apprenticeship Award

Myerscough College

The Growth Company Education and Skills

The Juice Academy

Wakefield College

— Excellence in Apprenticeships

Students’ Union of the Year

BPP University

Chester Students’ Union

Newcastle University Students’ Union

University of Salford

Further Education College of the Year

Burnley College Sixth Form Centre

Greenhead College

Myerscough College

University of the Year

Sheffield Hallam University

University Centre Leeds

Entrepreneur of the Year

Graham Shapiro

— University of Chester

Kirsty Wharton and Brian English

— Medipro Limited

Moises Barbera Ramos

— Drill Surgeries

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Testimonials

The Educate North Awards represent both an important high-point and aspiration for the North’s academics, institutions and indeed students. It provides a platform for sharing excellence and achievement. More importantly it encourages, promotes, and nurtures the sector and talent. Congratulations on reaching 10. Here’s to the next ten celebrations of what the education sector achieves. DR JOHN CATER CBE DL, VICE-CHANCELLOR
EDGE-HILL UNIVERSITY
I was overwhelmed to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023 as part of the Educate North Awards. It’s inspiring to see so many dedicated people being recognised for their important work across the educational sector and across so many disciplines. I hope the creators will build upon their own success since 2015 and create more opportunities to showcase what education really means in the North of this country. PROFESSOR NICOLA CURTIN
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE
Seeing the Educate North Awards live for the first time in 2023 was a wonderful experience. To bring an often disparate sector together is wonderful, to share best-practice is fulfilling and to see the superb standards from Sixth-Forms, Further Education and then HE in one room is often, breathtaking. We should embrace Educate North more and drive it forward beyond this special 10th ceremony. SIR JOHN JONES
EDUCATIONALIST
The idea sounded complex but exciting in 2015. Could the North create a showpiece which would harness the best of the talents we have in our educational sector? Would anyone even enter? Would we create a respected and highly motivated judging panel and find expert leadership for it? Would we also find room, as we did in the first 3 years, to debate the future direction and resources needed to increase social mobility and opportunities for all? Would we find new business ideas and young entrepreneurs as well with a willingness to test their ideas? The answer was yes, and the result is a wonderful parade of superb nominees who are helping shape and change the worlds they occupy. Long may Educate North continue. DR JOHN KENNEDY CBE, KSG, KMCO, DL.
PATRON OF EDUCATE NORTH AWARDS
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