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Derby College’s Joseph Wright Campus celebrates achievements Danielle Smith and Harry Lebeter
Teresa Scott, Founder of Employability Training specialist Kennedy Scott, awarded OBE in New Year’s Honours List
Teresa Scott, the inspirational founder of Kennedy Scott, an organisation which helps individuals with disabilities and mental health issues find jobs and realise their career potential, has been awarded an OBE for her lifelong services to Entrepreneurship & Employability. A highly respected industry figure and tireless campaigner, Teresa has been recognised for three decades of dedication to the training and employability support sector.
The achievements of students at the Joseph Wright Campus at Derby College have been officially recognised with a celebration evening attended by more than 100 people.
Students who have either graduated from or are continuing their studies for A levels, Creative Industries or Computer Science and Information Technology programmes based at the Joseph Wright Campus were presented with subject prizes at the annual event.
The Outstanding Academic Achievement award was presented to Harry Lebeter (18) from Ilkeston who was the first in his direct family to go to university having achieved A* in Maths and Further Maths and A grades in Chemistry and Physics.
Harry, who already had top GCSE grades from Ormiston Academy under his belt, is now studying Maths at the University of Warwick. The Outstanding Vocational Achievement Award was presented to Art & Design student Danielle Smith (23) from Derby.
For her final Art project in June, Danielle was awarded the winning the annual £400 Brian Harris Bursary by the Arts Society Derby. Derby College Head of the Joseph Wright Centre Stacey Adams said: “Harry and Danielle were worthy winners of the two top awards of the year at JWC.
“We are very proud of their achievements and they are excellent role models for our current students. It has been wonderful to see the students who left us last summer and fascinating to hear how they are now doing having progressed onto university, higher apprenticeships or work.”
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Originally graduating as a teacher, Teresa founded Kennedy Scott in 1989 with the aim of providing career development opportunities for young people who had not fared well in mainstream education. One of the first companies to offer apprenticeships within the employment sector, Teresa is an unwavering advocate of quality and diversity in recruitment, believing that everyone has a niche and can progress while adding value to forward thinking organisations across a range of sectors.
Upon being named in the New Year’s Honours
list, Teresa commented: “I am humbled to be recognised in the New Year’s Honours list but, I believe this award really is recognition of our organisation’s pursuit and dedication to employment opportunities for all.
“Through the collective focus of our team and all the hard work and dedication of the staff, Kennedy Scott changes lives every day and I am incredibly proud of the work we do and the inspirational people I see every day.”
www.kennedyscott.co.uk
Education sector is the industry furthest away from achieving paperless working
Organisations in the education sector rely the most on paper and have the largest amount of work to do to reduce their usage, new research has found. A survey of 1,000 workers, conducted by WorkMobile, found that employees working in the education sector rely the most on paper (80%), followed by the finance sector (68%), and the construction and utilities industries (67%). A third of organisations in the education sector (34%) and construction and utilities (33%) have taken no steps to even reduce their usage. But, the finance industry is trying to become less reliant on paper, with 77% of companies implementing paper-saving processes.
Surprisingly, the legal sector, which is often perceived as traditional in its processes, is ahead of other sectors, with four-fifths (80%) of employees saying their bosses have introduced paper-less working.
The environment is paying the biggest price though, given that 50% of all waste generated from businesses is paper-based.
Reassuringly, some employees are trying to cut down their personal paper usage to protect the environment. 30% only print out physical files when absolutely necessary, 7% rarely use the printer, and 3% operate fully paperless and never use paper.
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www.education-today.co.uk
The research was carried out as part of WorkMobile’s ‘Death of the paper trail report’, which investigates the sectors that are still reliant on paper-based processes, and the pitfalls that businesses often encounter by working in this way.
www.workmobileforms.com/research-and- whitepapers/
January 2018
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