2025 Winners

Lifetime Achievement Award

Sponsored by Liverpool John Moores University

Winner 2025

Carol Ann Duffy

The University Entrepreneurs Grant 2025

Winner 2025

Alex & Tom Banner

— TAB Customs

CCUK - Outstanding Head Teacher

Sponsored by CCUK

Winner 2025

Scott Cordon

— King's Leadership Academy Liverpool

CCUK - Outstanding School, College or University

Sponsored by CCUK

Winner 2025

Royal Northern College of Music

CCUK - Outstanding Teacher

Sponsored by CCUK

Winner 2025

Susan Allinson

— Woodham Burn Community Primary School

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Award

Sponsored by Liverpool John Moores University

Winner 2025

Hull College

— Silent Voices, Vivid Stories

Highly Commended 2025

StedyChefs Learning Centre

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Initiative Award

Winner 2025

Northumbria University & Woodhorn Mining Museum

— STEM Communities

Highly Commended 2025

The University of Central Lancashire & STEMFirst

— Space in Schools

Liverpool Hope Prize; Outstanding Achievement for Social Mobility

Winner 2025

Northern College in Yorkshire

— The North’s only adult residential education college

Community Engagement Award – HE/FE Sector

Winner 2025

Education Partnership North East & Northumbria Police

— Trainee Detective Programme

Community Engagement Award – University Sector

Winner 2025

York St John University

— Converge

Highly Commended 2025

The University of Manchester - The Anti-Poverty Collective

— Developing Manchester’s Anti-Poverty Research Community by Co-Producing Grassroots Collaborations for Positive Social Change

Business Engagement, Employer Award – HE/FE Sector

Winner 2025

Franklin Sixth Form College

— Emma Swinburn, Jaime Hansen, Honor Walton - Meet the Future

Business Engagement, Employer Award – University Sector

Winner 2025

University of Central Lancashire

— Centre for SME and Enterprise Development (CSMEED) and the Institute for Research into Work and Employment (iROWE)

Heart Creative Arts Award

Winner 2025

Sunderland College

— Creative Arts ‘Thread of Life’ - A response to the August 2024 Northeast riots

Highly Commended 2025

The University of Salford & Joss Arnott Dance

— Emergence

Apprenticeship Award

Winner 2025

York St John University

— Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship - Improving the Standard of Policing

College or FE Student Achievement of the Year

Winner 2025

Eshan Bilal

— Burnley College

University/PHD Student Achievement of the Year

Winner 2025

Alexia Lopez

— University of Central Lancashire

Highly Commended 2025

Lucia Crowther

— University of Hull

Digital Education and Development Award

Winner 2025

University of Huddersfield

— Graduate Career Explorer

Innovation Award

Winner 2025

The Christie Hospital

— Teenage & Young Adult Service

Highly Commended 2025

The Sheffield College and South Yorkshire Regional Education and Careers Team

— Sheffield Health and Social Care Employability Project

Mental Health and Wellbeing Award

Winner 2025

Hopwood Hall College

— Addressing Emotionally Based Non-Attendance in Rochdale

Highly Commended 2025

Northumbria University

— Mental Health and Wellbeing Team

The Sustainable Green Initiative

Winner 2025

Hull College

— Rising Tides, Rising Minds

Third Sector Award

Winner 2025

HMT St Hughs Hospital & Humber Health Partnership, Diana Princess of Wales Hospital

— Sepsis, Together We Can Succeed Conference

Student Experience Award - HE/FE Sector

Sponsored by CCUK

Winner 2025

The Sixth Form Bolton

— Women into Leadership Programme

Highly Commended 2025

The Sheffield College

— Overseas Work-related Activity Programme

Student Experience Award – University Sector

Winner 2025

University of Central Lancashire

— Transforming Interprofessional Education

Student Experience Award – University Sector

Winner 2025

University of Chester

— Academic Skills Team, The Skills Pod

Campaign of the Year

Winner 2025

Northumbria University

— NU ALLSTARS

Business School of the Year

Winner 2025

Liverpool John Moores University - Liverpool Business School

Leadership and Innovation Award

Winner 2025

Aline Miller

— The University of Manchester

Highly Commended 2025

Graham Luccock, Chair of the Corporation

— Trafford & Stockport College Group

Law School of the Year

Winner 2025

Manchester Law School

Highly Commended 2025

Edge Hill University School of Law and Criminal Justice

— Supporting widening participation and student employability

Further Education College of the Year

Winner 2025

Greenhead College

Highly Commended 2025

Wigan & Leigh College

— Creative Skills Solutions for a Community

University of the Year

Winner 2025

University of Liverpool

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Testimonials

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

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

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