2023 Winners

BUSINESS SCHOOL OF THE YEAR

Winner 2023

The Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

EDUCATE NORTH & COMMUNICORP UK – OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

Winner 2023

Outstanding School, College or University

— Birkdale Primary School

THE UNIVERSITY ENTREPRENEURS GRANT 2023

Winner 2023

Noura Qusairy

— University of Liverpool

EDUCATE NORTH & COMMUNICORP UK – OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

Winner 2023

Outstanding Teacher

— Julie Hirst

EDUCATE NORTH & COMMUNICORP UK – OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

Winner 2023

Outstanding Head Teacher

— Chris Rue

BUSINESS/INDUSTRY COLLABORATION – HE/FE SECTOR

Winner 2023

Education Partnership North East

— Meeting the Skills Needs of the Advanced Manufacturing Sector

BUSINESS/INDUSTRY COLLABORATION – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2023

Manchester Metropolitan University

— Centre for Enterprise

SOCIAL MOBILITY AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Winner 2023

Hopwood Hall College

SOCIAL MOBILITY AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2023

Edge Hill University

— Widening Access and Participation Team, Student Advisory Panels

DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION AWARD

Winner 2023

Learning Curve Group

BUSINESS COLLABORATION & PARTNERSHIPS AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Winner 2023

Preston College

BUSINESS COLLABORATION & PARTNERSHIPS AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2023

Manchester Metropolitan University & PrintCity Network

EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Winner 2023

Salford City College Group

— Industry Partners

EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2023

University of Central Lancashire Trainee Associate Psychological Practitioner Initiative

EXTERNAL RELATIONS TEAM OF THE YEAR

Winner 2023

Edge Hill University

— Student Recruitment & Marketing

INNOVATION AWARD

Winner 2023

University of York – Fathom Cognition

— Rethinking dementia assessment

STUDENT EXPERIENCE AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Winner 2023

Bradford College

— Progression to learning and work

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Winner 2023

Swarthmore Education Centre

— Art at the Heart

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2023

Edge Hill University – SME Productivity & Innovation Centre

— Leading Lancashire Programme

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2023

Lancaster University

— Regional Heritage Centre

MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS AWARD

Winner 2023

Preston College Dance

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING & MATHEMATICS (STEM) INITIATIVE AWARD

Winner 2023

Northumbria University

— STEM Person of the Week

DIGITAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT AWARD

Winner 2023

Askham Bryan College

— The Digital Skills Academy

Highly Commended

Lowe Maintenance

— Rural education made personal

MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING AWARD

Winner 2023

Newcastle College

— HE Mental Health and Wellbeing Digital Project

UK APPRENTICESHIP AWARD

Winner 2023

Themis at Burnley College

UK EDUCATION LEADERSHIP AWARD

Winner 2023

Jason Faulkner

— Redcar and Cleveland College

UK EDUCATION LEADERSHIP AWARD

Winner 2023

Brenda McLeish OBE DL

— Learning Curve Group

ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR

Winner 2023

Dr Srijan Jindal

— PhenUtest Diagnostics, University of Liverpool

BEST ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY

Winner 2023

University of Central Lancashire

STUDENTS’ UNION OF THE YEAR

Winner 2023

The University of Manchester Students’ Union

FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE OF THE YEAR

Winner 2023

Birkenhead Sixth Form College

Highly Commended

New College Durham

UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR

Winner 2023

Lancaster University

STUDENT EXPERIENCE AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2023

The University of Manchester

— North West Biotech Initiative

Highly Commended

Edge Hill University Moving In Experience

— Welcome Weekend

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD – SCHOOLS

Winner 2023

St Vincent’s School for Sensory Impairment

— Citizenship, Climate and Biodiversity Comics

Highly Commended

Morpeth Road Academy

— WISE Academies

THE SUSTAINABLE GREEN INITIATIVE

Winner 2023

Hopwood Hall College

— Guardians of our Environment

Highly Commended

Burnley College

— Low Carbon Hub

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Winner 2023

Professor Nicola Curtin

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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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