Association of Colleges

General Beacon Award Criteria

To apply please download AoC Beacon Awards Application Form. Your application may be for a programme, course, or project or for some other aspect of your college provision – teaching, learning, guidance or support.  To be eligible, your initiative should show evidence of imaginative yet sustainable teaching and learning practice or other relevant provision.  It must also fulfil the following criteria:

 

• It must meet the specific requirements set out by the sponsors of the particular Award for which you are applying (see relevant page in the Awards section of the Prospectus)
• It must be subject to evaluation/quality assurance to influence the continuing development of the initiative
• It must have been running for at least one academic session by 31 July 2008
• It must have features which actively promote exemplary teaching and learning
• It must be of benefit to one or more groups of students or trainees who will be identified and described in the application
• It must have wider relevance and applicability making it of value to other colleges as an example of good practice and innovation.