Winners of the 2009 Sparkle Auditions
The Sparkle Auditions have been searching for talented further education learners to perform at the 2009 STAR Awards national winners celebration. All the entries have now been judged and the winner of the 2009 auditions is Reynolds Performing Arts. Learners from Reynolds Performing Arts will open the national ceremony with a number of different dance styles in the exciting energy fuelled performance which is sure to wow the audience and open the sixth annual ceremony in style. Runners up who will also perform at the awards include learners from City of Bristol College, City College Norwich, West Suffolk College, North Warwickshire and Hinckley College, Westminster Kingsway College and Sussex Coast College Hastings.
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View the 2008 national ceremony video
Regional celebration events
The STARs of further education (FE) from across England gathered in Leeds, Birmingham and London on 7, 8 and 9 October respectively to celebrate being short-listed for the 2009 Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) STAR Awards. More than 100 nominees celebrated their achievements and shared their experiences of working in FE at the events, which were each hosted by a local media personality.
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Case studies of the 2009 short-listed nominees
Each week a case study on a short-listed nominee is put on to the STAR Awards website. The case studies outline some of the fantastic work that is going on in the sector.
When doctors told Nigel he would never walk again after two serious motorbike accidents, being honoured for his excellence as a fitness instructor would have seemed an impossible dream. But some twenty years on, having learned to walk again and trained in that profession, Nigel has been short-listed for a STAR Award.
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STAR comments
Thank you to everybody who has left a comment on the STAR Awards website using the online form. It’s great to hear about all the good work going on in the sector. Thank you to David Barnes from the Working Men’s College, London, who left this comment about leadership nominee Kanwal Pattar:
“I find Kanwal to be one of the most professional managers I have worked with in my time at The Working Men's College, and to be one of our most valued members of staff when it comes to taking the college forward into the future with new and exciting projects.”
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