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Each STAR Award winner and highly commended nominee will receive up to £1,500 from the STARlight fund which can be used for personal and/or professional development. This could be put towards a study trip abroad, a new piece of equipment, a training course or any other activity the nominee believes will enhance their ability to make a difference in the further education system. Past winners have put their funding to a range of uses:
Marc is lead tutor for the Step by Step project; a key part of Brighton and Hove Council’s strategy for helping single homeless people.
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Marc used his STARlight funding to continue his training in alternative therapies and undertake the personal challenge of walking the Pennine Way. What Marc said: “For me education is about empowering individuals to move forward so that they can make a difference to themselves, which often leads to making a difference to others. The funding meant that I could learn more about complementary therapies, I also learnt a great deal about myself by walking the Pennine Way. What I learnt is to never give up and I shall share that with those around me for the rest of my life.” |
Roland is an Evening Warden at Reaseheath College which is a specialist land-based provider.
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Roland used his STARlight funding to gain a qualification as a sailing instructor. What Roland said: “Lots of my students sail, and they are always asking me to accompany them, but without some qualifications I felt more of a hindrance than a help and didn’t want to put them in any danger. I feel that having this sort of experience, so late on in life, makes me a stronger person, and who knows, perhaps one day I could buy my own boat and give young people the experience that I never had at their age. ” |
Ed Anderson is a teacher of geography and geology at SRC Bede Sixth Form College Billingham.
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Ed is going to use his STARlight fund to do some further reconnaissance work in the European Alps to extend the scope of the annual Bede College geography and geology trip to the area. What Ed said: “Firstly, there are several sites in and around the valley I would like to visit to assess new learning activities. I am especially keen to take my students to high slopes above Lac du Emosson, Switzerland, where dinosaur footprints can be seen in the Jurassic strata. Secondly, it has been a long standing ambition of mine to explore the glaciers in the Chamonix Valley and take photographs for teaching purposes.” |
Sunaina Mann, is principal at North East Surrey College of Technology.
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Sunaina is going to use her STARlight funding to work shadow the senior management team of the Eastern Carrying Corporation Ltd. in India. What Sunaina said: “I have just completed my Principals Qualifying Programme. The area for development that was identified was Element 6: Working with employers, partners and networks in particular international work. In order to address this area of development, I have made contact with Eastern Carrying Corporation Ltd. in India who are happy to allow work shadowing of their senior management team.” |
Mike McDermott, now semi retired, was the e-learning manager at Uxbridge College.
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Mike donated much of his STARlight fund to others so they could further their studies. But he also purchased a set of electronic bagpipes and a sound system. What Mike said: “I’m currently working with a band that consists of 6 young adults who have, in their number, 3 paramedics and a policeman. As well as an outlet for the pressures of saving lives, they raise money for the Peace Hospice. They have to hire a sound system, but £660 would purchase one. I also play bagpipes and have won competitions, but I have developed asthma, a set of electronic bagpipes would mean I could continue to develop this skill.” |