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Queens Anniversary Prize
Queens Anniversary Prize
In 2007, City and Islington College was awarded the
Queen’s Anniversary Prize for exceptional achievement, becoming the
first general further education college to win the prestigious
award twice.
Her Majesty The Queen presented medals to Principal Frank
McLoughlin, Director of Applied Sciences Derek Puddick and Chair of
Governors Jack Morris for “Creating Pathways to Employment and
Higher Education in the Sciences”, celebrating the performance of
its science provision which was described as outstanding by Ofsted
in its most recent inspection.
The citation for the award states that the College “Currently
offers one of the widest selections of innovative science courses
of any college of further education”. It hails the College’s
foresight in creating a Centre for Applied Sciences in 2003,
focusing on the delivery of courses leading to science-based
professions, “at a time when there was a national decline in
applications for the study of science”.
It also says: “The College’s determined implementation of its
vision has successfully bucked the national trend, seeing a
dramatic increase in the enrolment of students studying science –
numbers have more than doubled over the last three years.”
City and Islington first won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in
1994 in recognition of its role in “widening access and progression
to higher education”.
The award, presented every two years, was established in 1993 to
mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. Of the 129
awards presented, most have been awarded to universities. Only 17
have been won by general FE colleges in England.
