Association of Colleges

The AoC Beacon Awards 2008-2009 prospectus is now available:

  Beacon Awards Prospectus 2008/09

The closing date for this year's applications was Wednesday 23 July 2008.  Many thanks to all colleges who submitted applications this year.  The Beacon Awards office is not accepting any further applications.

The AoC Beacon Awards Programme

The AoC Beacon Awards, launched in 1994, recognise and are designed to promote the interdependence of further education colleges, business, professional and voluntary sector organisations to their mutual advantage.

The aim of the programme is to highlight the breadth and quality of education in colleges throughout the UK and increase understanding of colleges' contribution to UK educational skills policy and economic and social development.

The Awards:
 

• Recognise imaginative and exemplary teaching and learning practice in colleges
• Draw attention to provision which encourages and supports learners to approach challenges positively and creatively
• Support learning and continuous improvement through the dissemination of Award-bearing practice.

The Programme represents partnership in action by providing significant benefits for the major players involved:

 

• An Award acts as a development grant to help realise the full potential of a project based in a college of further education.
• An Award serves to promote the business needs and interests of the sponsor.

The dissemination of exemplary practice represented by the Award-winning projects is a major purpose of each year's AoC Beacon Awards Programme.

Project Profiles of each year's winning colleges are written up and are available on the AoC web site approximately a year after their announcement.

Project Profiles for the Beacon Awards 2006-2007 winners can be found here.

  Beacon Awards 10yrs .

For further information contact:

Alice Thiagaraj
Manager, AoC Charitable Trust
Tel:  020 7034  9900
Email