The annual Educate North Awardswill be moving online for the ceremony on 22 April 2021. The awards are organised by Rob McLoughlin’s Carm Productionsand will be hosted by Jim Hancock, former Political Editor of Granada TV and BBC North West.
Further details of this year’s awards are given on the Prolific North website.
The Educate North Awards, which were originally planned to be hosted on September 30th, have been moved to March 2021 at The Midland Hotel, Manchester.
The awards were created by Rob McLoughlin, the award-winning broadcaster and producer, and the full shortlist was revealed earlier in the year. They also encompass the University Entrepreneurs Grant (UEG), a business competition now planned to take place online in Autumn 2020.
For more details, see the Prolific North website.
The full shortlist for April’s Educate North Awards, designed to celebrate the very finest work in higher and further education, has been revealed.
The prizes will be given at the Award Ceremony, held at Manchester’s Hilton Deansgate on 23 April 2020. Tickets are available here.
Business/Industry Collaboration – HE/FE Sector
Business/Industry Collaboration – University Sector
Social Mobility Award – HE/FE Sector
Social Mobility Award – University Sector
Sponsored by Smooth North West
Judges chose not to release a shortlist for this category. The winner will be announced on the evening.
Business Collaboration & Partnerships Award – HE/FE Sector
Business Collaboration & Partnerships Award – University Sector
Judges chose not to release a shortlist for this category. The winner will be announced on the evening.
Employer Engagement Award – HE/FE Sector
Employer Engagement Award – University Sector
Sponsored by Smooth North East
External Relations Team of the Year
Innovation Award
Sponsored by Voiceworks
Student Experience Award – HE/FE Sector
Student Experience Award – University Sector
Sponsored by Communicorp
International Partnership – HE/FE Sector
International Partnership – University Sector
Community Engagement Award – Schools
Community Engagement Award – HE/FE Sector
Community Engagement Award – University Sector
Sponsored by Heart Yorkshire
Research Project of the Year
Judges chose not to release a shortlist for this category. The winner will be announced on the evening.
Research Team of the Year
Judges chose not to release a shortlist for this category. The winner will be announced on the evening.
Teaching Excellence Award
UK Leadership Award
UK Apprenticeship Award
Business School of the Year
Judges chose not to release a shortlist for this category. The winner will be announced on the evening.
Students’ Union of the Year
Further Education College of the Year
Entrepreneur of the Year
Sponsored by The Masood Enterprise Centre at the University of Manchester
University of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award
Supported by Dr John Kennedy CBE, Patron of The Educate North Awards
Judges chose not to release a shortlist for this category. The winner will be announced on the evening
The recently appointed Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, will be guest of honour at this year’s Educate North Awards, taking place on April 23rd at the Deansgate Hilton Hotel.
Accompanied by his wife, Lady Hoyle, the Speaker – who took over from John Bercow in December 2019 – will present a number of awards on the evening.
You can read more on the Prolific North website.
The Masood Enterprise Centre (MEC) at The University of Manchester has become the first higher education institution to join up as a patron of the Educate North Awards, which take place in April 2020.
Hosted by Carm Productions, the event takes place on 23 April 2020 at Manchester’s Hilton Deansgate.
For more details, visit the Prolific North website.
The University of Central Lancashire had a hat-trick of wins at the 2019 Educate North Awards, held in Manchester on April 26.
In addition, a UCLan graduate won the 2019 University Entrepreneurs Grant, receiving the £1000 prize for start-up businesses.
For more on this story, visit the Lancashire Evening Post website.
The North West’s education sector was celebrated at the Educate North Awards, held in Manchester on 25 April. Over 400 people witnessed a total of 23 awards handed out to competing education organisations and individuals. University of the Year went to the University of Newcastle.
Dr John Kennedy CBE was patron of the Educate North Awards and sponsor of the pre-dinner reception.
The shortlist has been announced for the 2019 Educate North Awards.
These prestigious awards celebrate the best of the region’s university and further education institutions and will be presented on April 25 at the Hilton Hotel, Deansgate, Manchester.
For more details and to book tickets, visit the Prolific North website.
Radio stations Smooth North East, Smooth North West and Heart Yorkshire have all returned as official partners of the 2019 Educate North Awards.
The Awards will be sponsored by the Communicorp Ltd owned companies for the second year running and will highlight the best achievements of Universities throughout the region.
“Radio is a fabulous medium for Educate North,” said Dr John Kennedy CBE, Patron of the Awards. “The awards represent a tremendous opportunity to showcase the North in the middle of uncertain times.”
For more details, visit the Prolific North news story here.
The Educate North Awards – the leading event for the University and Higher Education sector – returns on Thursday 25th April 2019, at The Hilton Hotel in Manchester.
The awards celebrate excellence and the world-class success of the North’s University and Higher Education sector as well as rewarding success in Further and Sixth Form Education.
Launched in 2014 by John and broadcaster and producer Rob McLoughlin OBE, the Awards have gone from strength to strength.
For more information, visit the Prolific North news story.
