2024 Winners

CREATIVE ARTS AWARD

Sponsored by Heart
Winner 2024

Burnley College Creative Arts & Media

APPRENTICESHIP AWARD

Winner 2024

Sheffield Hallam University

— The National Centre of Excellence for Degree Apprenticeships

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

Winner 2024

Northumbria University

— Play, Be, C
Winner 2024 (Silver)

Holy Cross Engineering Club

BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT, EMPLOYER AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Winner 2024

Wigan & Leigh College

BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT, EMPLOYER AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2024

Manchester Metropolitan University

— Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Winner 2024

Emeritus Professor, Phil Harris

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Sponsored by The Protocol Group
Winner 2024

Trafford and Stockport College Group

— Empowering Communities: Bridging Gaps and Building Futures

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2024

Edge Hill University and Everton in the Community

— The People’s Place

THIRD SECTOR AWARD

Winner 2024

Rethink Food C.I.C

STUDENT EXPERIENCE AWARD – HE/FE SECTOR

Sponsored by voiceworks.ai
Winner 2024

Education Partnership North East (EPNE)

— Cultural and Social Capital Project - Creative, Digital and Computing Faculty

STUDENT EXPERIENCE AWARD – UNIVERSITY SECTOR

Winner 2024

Durham University

— TechUP

DIGITAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT AWARD

Sponsored by interact
Winner 2024

University of Salford - Motion Mastery

— Building the Ultimate Capture Realm
Winner 2024 (Silver)

York College & University Centre (Reporting Services Team)

— Student / Parent App

CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR

Sponsored by Smooth Radio
Winner 2024

University of Central Lancashire

— “When it feels wrong, it’s wrong”

INNOVATION AWARD

Winner 2024

Hull College

— AI Academy

THE SUSTAINABLE GREEN INITIATIVE

Winner 2024

University of Central Lancashire

— The Grenfell-Baines Institute of Architecture & LeftCoast – Wash Your Words

MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING AWARD

Winner 2024

Burnage Academy for Boys

— Implementing a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing

DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION AWARD

Winner 2024

University of Huddersfield

— The Global Professional Award

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION AWARD

Winner 2024

Peter Monaghan, Head of SEND and High Needs

— Education Partnership North East (Sunderland, Northumberland and Hartlepool Sixth Form Colleges)

BUSINESS SCHOOL OF THE YEAR

Winner 2024

Chester Business School

— University of Chester

FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE OF THE YEAR

Sponsored by Smooth Radio
Winner 2024

Hull College

— Trailblazing Turnaround

UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR

Winner 2024

The University of Manchester

University Entrepreneurs Grant 2024

Sponsored by Masood and IT Capital
Winner 2024

Lucky Ali, University of Liverpool

Educate North & CCUK – Outstanding Contribution Award: Outstanding School, College or University

Sponsored by Smooth Radio
Winner 2024

Burnage Academy for boys

Educate North & CCUK – Outstanding Contribution Award: Outstanding Teacher

Sponsored by Smooth Radio
Winner 2024

Lyndsay Turner, Catcote Futures

Educate North & CCUK – Outstanding Contribution Award: Outstanding Head Teacher

Sponsored by Heart
Winner 2024

Rod Sims, York High School

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Heart
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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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