Employer awards
Nominate a winning employer
The Adult Learners’ Week Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding learning achievements of individuals, projects, tutors and employers across England.
This year we are looking for employers who have invested in outstanding staff training and development.
We want to hear from workplaces that have used learning to develop and utilise the skills of their workforce to improve productivity, raise morale, increase staff retention and enhance their business performance.
The employer may have helped its employees to:
- learn new skills for personal or professional development
- achieve something they never thought was possible
- completely transform their lives and the lives of those around them
- gain promotion or change career direction
Your nomination will give the employer recognition for the outstanding support it shows to its employees, celebrate the positive impact of learning on people’s lives, and boost the self-confidence of the learners.
Winners of this category will demonstrate that their employees have made significant progress and that the organisation has been enhanced by the training and development on offer. The impact of the learning on the business is the crucial part of all of our winners’ stories and it is the outcomes from this learning that makes the employer eligible for an award.
Making a nomination
Equality and empowerment is at the heart of everything that NIACE does. Our aim is for as many people as possible to be involved in and inspired by Adult Learners’ Week.
We want everyone to have access to Adult Learners' Week from the nomination form(s) through to the awards ceremonies. This form should be compatible with most frequently used screen readers and other assistive technology. If you require accessibility support please let us know and we’ll do everything we can to help: email [email protected]; tel 0116 285 9656 or text 07810 770399.
These notes are to support the nomination of an employer only. Please read these notes before completing a nomination form.
Employer eligibility
- Awards are open to employers based in England only.
- The employer must provide learning opportunities for adults who are aged 18 or over on 17 December 2014.
- A learner’s statement must be included in the nomination.
- There is no limit to the number of nominations that one nominator can make. However, we do not accept nominations for one nominee from multiple nominators.
- Nominations for employers that have been nominated in previous years, or employers that have won awards as part of other awards initiatives, will be accepted.
- Employers within the British Armed Forces can be nominated, but please provide information about where it is based in England.
- Nominations for the employer award must be authorised by relevant management before submission due to confidentiality surrounding the employer’s business activity.
Publicity
Adult Learners’ Week Award Winners attract significant press and media interest. The information supplied in the nomination form could be used publicly to inspire others.
A private information box is included in the nomination form to be used for information that you do not want to be made public. See Part 4 of the nomination form for further information.
Next steps
All nominations are shortlisted against a set criteria. Those shortlisted are sent to a selection panel of judges, who represent the diversity of adult learning provision. All winners are selected by the panel, which assesses each entry based only on the information provided on the nomination forms.
Final decisions will be made by the end of April 2015. All winners and their nominators will be contacted by May 2015. If you haven’t heard from us by this time, please assume that the employer has not been chosen as an Award Winner on this occasion. Everyone nominated for an Adult Learners’ Week Award will receive a Certificate of Achievement in June 2015.
Award Winners will be invited to regional or national Awards Ceremonies where each of them will receive a learning voucher, valued between £200 and £1,000, and an Awards Certificate.
Nominate now by downloading a Word version of the nomination form and returning it to [email protected] by the deadline, 5pm Wednesday 17 December 2014, or nominate online.