City and Islington College

logo
City and Islington College

You are here: Home > About us > Our achievements > Beacon award

Beacon award

Glass Building Beacon award ceremony

At a special lunch in central London on 12 December 2005, Phil Hope MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Skills, presented the prestigious Learning and Skills Beacon award to City and Islington College.

Jack Morris, the College's Chair of Governors, together with Vice Chair, Kate O'Rourke, College principal, Frank McLoughlin, Deputy Principal, Mary Rimington, the College's student union president, Huseyin Acar, and former student Fahima Nessa, now reading psychology at UCL, went along to receive the award.

Beacon Status

Beacon status is awarded jointly by the Department for Education and Skills and the Learning and Skills Council for excellence in post-16 education and training. It's given to colleges and schools in recognition of high quality teaching and learning.

Beacon colleges and schools receive support to enable them share their good practice and to promote innovation for the benefit of the wider learning and skills community.

The award confirms our position as one of England’s leading further education colleges.

“Learning and Skills Beacon status is awarded to those organisations that are exemplars in their field.  The award enables them to work with the Department for Education and Skills, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and from April 2006, the new Quality Improvement Agency, to share their outstanding practice and help accelerate the pace of quality improvement, to benefit the whole post-16 sector.  I would like to congratulate them on their well deserved success and I very much look forward to working with them in the future”.

Bill Rammel MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning.

For more information

Visit the DfES Beacon Award information page [external site]

Bookmark and Share

Student profile

picture of Ibrahim Mohamed

Ibrahim Mohamed

I studied Biology, Chemistry and French, said Ibrahim, who did his A-levels at the Sixth Form College. I really enjoyed the sciences because both lessons were really interesting and filled with exciting practical experiments, and in French there were many interactive resources that really helped you to improve your skills in the language. The teachers were very helpful and willing to help you out even in their spare time, and we received a lot of support for homework and coursework in all my subjects. The Centre has a really good learning atmosphere because everyone is respectful and friendly, so I would definitely recommend it to other people.