Double Awards Success for Birkbeck

Birkbeck enjoyed a night of success on Tuesday 9 June, when it won top prizes at two major award ceremonies.

Birkbeck Stratford was awarded the prize for Individual Organisational Impact in this year's London Education Partnership Awards (LEPA), recognising its work in taking Birkbeck's unique teaching model to east London. Judge Dr Christine Jude said: "We really did feel, as one of your students said, that if George Birkbeck was alive today this is what he would be doing. We were hugely impressed by the range and depth of the partnership work and how Birkbeck had really gone the extra mile in developing the relationships at all levels to bring people in. You also brought in potential competitors and made the partnership work for East London."

Meanwhile, External Relations was named outstanding Marketing and Communications Team, at the first Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards (THELMAs). It was recognised for its response to the ELQ funding decision, launching a high profile lobbying campaign whilst achieving record recruitment rates. Ann Mroz, editor of Times Higher Education, said: "Birkbeck was left facing a 40 per cent cut to its teaching funds following last year’s decision by the Government to stop financing second degrees. The role its team has played in campaigning against the decision, thrusting it into the political spotlight, has been superb."