Learner Voice Awards 2012
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and the National Union of Students (NUS) are proud to continue their partnership in hosting the Leading Learner Voice Awards 2012. These important awards are for learners, staff and providers in the further education (FE) and skills sector – embracing colleges (including sixth form and independent specialist colleges for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LDD), work-based learning (WBL), adult community learning (ACL) and offender learning.
The event is planned around three themes:
• Sharing ideas of effective learner voice practice from across the sector;
• Informing learner voice practice; and,
• Celebrating achievements of the sector
When and where is it?
Thursday, 21 June 2012
One Drummond Street
London
SW1V 2QW
Bookings will open soon so watch this space
The central aim of the Awards is to highlight and draw maximum attention to outstanding practice in leadership for learner voice and to value the different leadership roles that are vital to ensure that learners’ views are actively sought, listened to and acted upon. In particular, the awards are concerned with:
- Recognising and celebrating excellent work in learner voice and those responsible for it;
- Identifying and sharing effective practice;
- Demonstrating the value and benefits of effective learner voice; and,
- Inspiring others to innovate and develop their own practice.
In addition to a variety of workshops, delegates will also be invited to vote for the Provider of the year award. The awards ceremony will then take place in the afternoon.
Since they were first held in 2008, the Leading Learner Voice Awards have provided a strong national focus for the work of thousands of learners and staff across the sector who are actively engaged in leadership for learner representation and participation. The occasion provides an opportunity to celebrate the outstanding achievements of learners, individually or collectively, and of practitioners, managers and organisations who have shown leadership and commitment to learner voice whether for organisational change and development, or in a wider community, social or political context.
For information about last year's winners, visit the Leading the Learner Voice Awards 2011 page.