LSIS is delighted to congratulate those individuals whose commitment to further education and training has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List for 2012. The awards acknowledge their outstanding achievement and impressive commitment to education and skills.

Geoffrey Hall, lately Principal and Chief Executive of New College, Nottingham was recognised with a knighthood for services to further education.

CBEs for services to further education were awarded to Elizabeth Rushton, lately Principal and Chief Executive of West Herts College; Malcolm Wharton, Principal of Hartpury College, Gloucestershire and Dr Anne Murdoch Principal of Newbury College, Berkshire.  

CBEs were also awarded to Professor Madeleine Atkins, Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University services for to higher education and to Marion Davis, Director of Children, Young People and Families Directorate, Warwickshire County Council for services to children and young people.

Receiving OBEs for their services to further education were David Croll, Principal and Chief Executive of Derby College; Richard Chambers, lately Principal of Lambeth College; Catherine Hurst, Principal of Wigan and Leigh College and Linda Moore, Group Director and Vice Principal of Newcastle College.

OBEs were also awarded to Leanne Hedden lately Executive Director for supporting delivery, Training Development Agency for Schools (TDA), Department for Education; Anne Tipple, National Skills Development Executive, British Chambers Of Commerce for Services to business skills development; George Derbyshire, lately Chief Executive, National Federation of Enterprise Agencies for services to enterprise; (Margaret) Ellen Winser, Chair of Board of Governors, Truro and Penwith College for services to further education and higher education and Peter Collinge Chairman of Andrew Collinge Hairdressing for services to the hairdressing industry.

MBEs for services to further education went to Malcolm Parkinson, Chair of Capel Manor College; Geoffrey Oakes, lately Clerk to the Board Of Governors, Reaseheath College; Denise Rowland, lately Head of School of Early Years Health and Social Care, New College Durham and Dawn Stoddard, Learndirect Outstanding Learner of the year 2010. 

MBEs were also awarded to Carole Stott, Chair of Governors, City Literary Institute for services to adult education; Graham Schuhmacher, Head of Development Services, Rolls-Royce plc. for services to apprenticeships and skills training; Eileen Kenny, Head of Quality, South West College for Services to further education in Northern Ireland; Cherry Briggs, College Manager, Reid Kerr College, Paisley for services to Scottish further education and young people in Renfrewshire and Christine Gaskell Chair of North West Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network for services to training and apprenticeships.