Organised and managed by Emap, Becta and BESA, the BETT Awards recognises and celebrates excellence in ICT in education. Each year, ICT educational suppliers of all types and sizes enter the BETT Awards for the chance to be a winner of what has come to be considered the most prestigious ICT awards in the UK education sector.

The category of ‘Supporting Institutional Learning and Management Solutions’ looks for exemplary software, hardware, content and tools for institutional leaders and managers working in the early years, primary, secondary or further education and skills sectors.

Judges found the WBL toolkit an innovative high quality learning interface with easy to use tools.  It was commended for an interface model which can easily be used in other mainstream learning areas, it featured a strong theoretical resources set at the right level for teachers, allows staff to undertake high quality training at their own pace and in their own organisation, and was overall very good value for money.

Launched in April 2006 – the WBL toolkit is used by one in four independent learning providers and offers online learning and development in areas such as finance and funding, equality and diversity, quality improvement and inspection, and understanding the policy landscape.

Paul Champion, Director, B-Skill Training Ltd said:

“I am really pleased that the toolkit has been recognised by BETT for the 2009 ‘supporting institutional leadership and management solutions’ award. My staff and I regularly access the effective and efficient resources within the toolkit and have found benefits to our personal development and answers to our problems when we really need them most. The WBL leadership toolkit has really helped our organisation to develop and be more aware of current policy and government strategies”

Punam Khosla, Programme Director, elearning and Leadership programmes said:

“We are thrilled to have won the Supporting Institutional Learning and Management Solutions award; the leadership toolkit was developed in response to the needs of managers from work based learning and enables just in time learning to take place remotely. We are seeing technology play a real and practical role in training and management. The flexibility that the toolkit offers is clearly valuable, especially in the current climate for work based learning providers.”

For information on the WBL Leadership Toolkit:

• To view a demonstration; visit www.lsis.org.uk/WBLdemo
• To read more about the toolkit; click here
• Contact the toolkit team at toolkit@lsis.org.uk or 0207 297 8420.