Transforming Lives Awards
Nominate a winning tutor
The Adult Learners’ Week Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding learning achievements of individuals, projects, tutors and employers across England.
The Transforming Lives awards are for tutors, teachers and trainers (tutors) in further education (FE) and skills that make a difference to millions of adults across England. By nominating a tutor or colleague for an award, you can recognise their valuable contribution to adult learning and the impact they have had on their learners.
Nominees for this category may have helped their learners to:
- take the first or next steps into learning
- build their confidence
- 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
We are looking for inspirational tutors who have supported learners, in a range of contexts, to go on to lead successful and rewarding lives. Winners of this category will demonstrate that their passion and dedication to learning has made a significant impact on the development of the learners that they teach. The learning is the crucial part of all of our winners’ stories and it is the outcome from their teaching that makes the tutor eligible for an award.
Nominations can be made by learners or by colleagues.
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 a tutor only. Please read these notes before completing a nomination form.
Tutor eligibility
- Awards are open to tutors, teachers and trainers based in England only who provide training and guidance to learners aged 18 or over on 17 December 2014.
- Tutors can come from any sector or field and there is not a restriction on the type of teaching. This includes teachers, trainers, tutors and student teachers throughout the further education and skills sector, including those involved in adult and community learning, offender learning, emergency and public services, FE colleges, universities, the armed services, sixth-form colleges, the voluntary sector and work-based learning.
- 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 tutors who have been nominated in previous years, or who have won awards as part of other award initiatives, will be accepted.
- Tutors working within the British Armed Forces can be nominated, wherever they are stationed. Where stationed overseas, please include a home location (county only (e.g. Wiltshire) and not a specific address) for the tutor as well as the nominator's unit contact information.
- Prison or probation tutors can be nominated. However authorisation must be gained from the relevant authorities, i.e. the National Offender Management Service or Probation Service, before a nomination can be made.
- Posthumous or self-nominations are not accepted.
Publicity
Adult Learners’ Week Award Winners attract significant press and media interest. The information supplied could be used publicly as inspirational stories. 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 3 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 assess 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 your nominee 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.
TUTORS - teachers, tutors, trainers and student teachers throughout the further education and skills sector, including those involved in adult and community learning, emergency and public services, FE colleges, the armed services, sixth-form colleges, the voluntary sector and work-based learning.