Education & Training Awards 2022
Introducing the Education & Training Awards 2022 With the need to improve one’s skills and abilities, comes the need for quality, informative education delivery and learning materials, as such Corporate Vision take pride in providing the platform where the efforts of all involved in workplace education and training for a fourth consecutive year. The pandemic has placed a strain on education, leading to the requirement for new, innovative ways to teach, learn and train. It also saw a drive for reemployment, with professionals looking to hone their skills, or explore new skill sets to alter their career paths. Sofi Bajor, Editor Website: www.corporatevision-news.com AI Global Media, Ltd. (AI) takes reasonable measures to ensure the quality of the information on this web site. However, AI will not assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, correctness or completeness of any information that is available through this web site. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. The information available through the website and our partner publications is for your general information and use and is not intended to address any particular finance or investment requirements. In particular, the information does not constitute any form of advice or recommendation by us or any of our partner publications and is not intended to be relied upon by users in making or refraining from making any investment or financial decisions. Appropriate independent advice should be obtained before making any such decision. Any arrangement made between you and any third party named in the site is at your sole risk and responsibility. Editorial Team Sif Brookes, Senior Editor | Sofi Bajor, Editor Daniel Long, Writer | Rebecca Scotland, Writer Gabriel Muers, Writer | Design Team Daniela Levinte, Graphic Designer Lauren Baldwin, Junior Graphic Designer
Contents 4. The Education & Skills Partnership Ltd: Apprenticeship Training Provider of the Year - UK 6. JRM Supplier Consulting: Best Supply Management Training Program Provider - USA 7. Ideal Schools: Bookkeeping Training Provider of the Year 2022 - UK 8. Ballsbridge Business Centre (Ballsbridge Cyprus): University Centre of the Year – Cyprus 9. Junglemap Ab: Most Innovative Employee Training Courses Platform - Northern Europe 10. ISEB Ltd: Educational Assessment Innovator of the Year 2022 - UK 11. Proten Sales Development Ltd: Best Business Sales & Strategy Coaching - UK 12. Meteor Tutors: Best Online EdTech Conferencing Company 2022 13. Cambrian Training: Best Work Based Apprenticeship Provider - Wales 14. EGI Education: Educational Travel Specialists of the Year – South America 15. Driving Solution: Best Driver Training Provider - East Midlands 16. Dental Training Ltd: Best Dental Training Provider – UK 17. Nature & Bliss: Best Environmental Education Provider – London 18. Toronto School of Management (TSoM): Leadership Coach & Business Development Strategist of the Year (Canada): Bernardo Riveros & Best Multi-Sector Co-Op Education Enterprise – Eastern Canada 19. DLC Training: Best Distance Learning Provider – UK 20 Leading Culture Solution: Leading Innovators in Business Culture Transformations - New England 21. Vivacity Coaching & Consulting: Best Training Industry Compliance Consultancy 2022 - Australia 22. Digital Training Institute: Best Digital Marketing & Social Media Training Provider 2022
Apprenticeship Training Provider of the Year - UK ESP (The Education & Skills Partnership Ltd) is an OFSTED rated ‘Good’ apprenticeship training provider offering a range of high-quality training and apprenticeships to UK employers within the retail, hospitality, telecoms, health, and business sectors. In addition, it offers workplace skills, and leadership and management short courses. There are over 1.2 million unfilled vacancies in the UK – so, the fight for talent is on. Employers are looking to grow their own talent, with upskilling existing staff being a current trend. A national provider with its head office in Kent and a branch in the Greater Manchester area, ESP is able to support businesses and learners throughout the UK, in both devolved and non-devolved areas. ESP is on a mission to provide the skills, knowledge, and safe environment needed for all of its learners to reach their full potential. Fundamentally, to do this, it simply listens to them. It recognises that businesses and individuals face unique talent challenges, each of them needing tailored solutions, so getting to know the client is really important. ESP collaborates with clients to develop bespoke solutions and programmes that deliver expected results, enabling growth and developing internal talent pools, building on transferable skills to adapt workforces to market demands. Whether a client is looking to upskill its workforce, needs support delivering its curriculum, or struggling to embed internal learning, ESP creates solutions that are tailored to relevant business goals. On average 30% of ESP’s staff are either ex-Forces or -Reservists, and a silver badge holder in strong support of the Armed Forces Covenant. The ESP team are highly skilled and professionally qualified in what they do, and above all, their focus is on every learner and inspiring them to fulfil their potential to meet their individual career development goals. Managing Director at ESP, Jason Hargreaves says, “The one thing that our team at ESP stands by is that no learner is left behind. Our role is to mentor, coach, and guide every learner step by step to achieve their full potential, to support their career goals.” ESP’s services come with flexible learning delivery methods (in person, classroom, or online) to suit each individual’s learning style and time commitments. It is also able to scale its team up or down to best suit the client’s needs, whether they have a single learner or require largescale managed apprenticeship delivery. The ESP team does all of the heavy lifting to enrol and onboard new and current staff onto training programmes, whilst maximising the client’s training budgets by making the best use of apprenticeship levies before they expire, and accessing other funding streams. Keeping relevant with the ever-changing marketplace, ESP is assisting large UK brands in developing internal talent academies; and post pandemic retaining and upskilling of individuals for new roles and careers. Behind it all, is ESP’s hard-working family of individuals who always give their best to support clients and learners throughout their learning journeys. Jason says, “We are entrepreneurial at heart, and adapt our plans as our clients and markets shift focus and goals. We regularly engage with our staff on the latest campaigns, new business wins, opportunities to network, taking advantage of industry trends and supporting partner events”. Ultimately, continuous training to ensure you have the best team with the best skills, behaviours, and knowledge to achieve your goals is an imperative.. ESP has evolved and is well-equipped to scale up and down with employers’ requirements, keeping them abreast of legislation changes, new funding pots available to them to offset raining cots, and the latest trends in training to attract and retain talent. Company: The Education & Skills Partnership Ltd Contact: Jason Hargreaves Email: [email protected] Website: www.esp-ac.uk
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become better and brighter, allowing them to reach for greater heights of success, Mr Moran shares his experiences using virtual platforms, talks, and seminars, with virtual education handling an a la carte approach to contractual and supply management. With only two other organizations offering what he does, his excellence as a tutor has convinced employers to make room in the budget for the training he offers, seeing the benefit to having a team that has been given the best toolkit for success. Indeed, this toolkit is something JRM Supplier Consulting’s efforts will fully stock over the course of a program, designing a full spectrum of supply management and CPE competency validation. Expecting to launch in autumn of this year with a fully virtual mode, responding to the new digital paradigm that Covid-19 has ushered in, Mr Moran will be continuing to improve and innovate going forward, bringing himself, his clients, and his industry into the future. Company: JRM Supplier Consulting Contact: Jim Moran Website: jrmsupplierconsulting.com Aug22224 Best Supply Management Training Program Provider - USA Jim Moran, the founder and principle of JRM Supplier Consulting, has cut his teeth on the provision of exemplary professional education services in supply management and contract management. Nominally, this certified disabled-owned business has propelled itself to the top of the industry thanks to the tenacity, diligence, and dedication shown by Mr Moran to each one of his students, coaching them through a well-developed program that has been built to be adaptable to student needs. His excellence has earned him a certified purchasing manager and professional supply manager accreditation from the Institute for Supply Management, as well as a commercial contract manager advanced practitioner certification from the World Commerce and Contracting board, and now, the above award. JRM Supplier Consulting, an impeccably lauded provider of supply and contract management tutelage in the USA, provides such services virtually and in person, or by using a hybrid method of delivery. Nominally, its expert services are delivered by sole employee, owner, and principle, Jim Moran, someone who has always been committed to using his own expertise and enthusiasm to help up and coming professionals in the industry he has built his career in. With students all over the globe, he can help a student to upgrade their skills, learn the skills needed to fit to entry-level requirements for certain roles, update their competencies in line with changing legislation, and more, presented to clients along the maturity continuum in a manner that is completely flexible. This flexibility has allowed JRM Supplier Consulting to endear itself to established professionals looking to develop their careers, younger folks just starting out, and leaders looking to update their portfolio of skills, creating a wide market segment within which it has made itself an established voice. Moreover, based in Philadelphia, it has become well known in its region for such services. Looking to enable the best and brightest in its industry to
Aug22470 Bookkeeping Training Provider of the Year 2022 - UK Founded in 1983, Ideal Schools is a home-study college specialising in bookkeeping, accounting and payroll subjects. With a personal approach, its tutors ensure that students are fully supported through their learning, while they are working towards professional qualifications with the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), or the CPD Certification Service. As specialists in home-study, Ideal Schools’ students are spread across the UK, with a small percentage studying from overseas. The training provider only offers qualifications in bookkeeping, accounting and related subjects, teaching the skills that are required within every business in the UK, which means the opportunities are vast. Ideal Schools’ number one goal is to ensure its students are successful in their exams. On top of their comprehensive course and assignment work, students are provided with pre-exam practice, in an online platform that mirrors the final exam format. This formula helps to ensure the exam pass rates are regularly in the 95% region. Students are supported as much as possible as they transition from student to practising, professional bookkeeper. As students complete their study, they can be guided by Ideal Schools Ambassadors, who are available to provide advice on the steps to take to make full use of their skills, hopefully leading towards a new, lucrative career. Although modern technologies are used for student exam preparations, alongside completing coursework, students are provided with personalised feedback on their submissions, not generic guidance. This means that guidance can be tailored so that students are able to move forward with total confidence. This personalised approach is extended to students who are encouraged to telephone and speak with their tutors whenever guidance is needed, again to ensure a smooth learning journey. When students are working outside normal business hours, its dedicated, private social media groups ensure they have a support mechanism, 24/7. Ideal Schools strongly believes that this is what sets it apart from the rest in the sector. Even during the pandemic, the team did their utmost to ensure students had the best learning experience possible. From a study perspective, the last couple of years have had a varied impact on the students’ progression. As a college, Ideal Schools was fully set up to continue to provide its services when homeworking was essential. Particularly, those studying the ICB qualification route could use their online examination platform to ensure there were no delays in their progression. Of course, none of what Ideal Schools offers could be possible without its teaching team. It is fortunate to have staff that have been with it for many, many years, some with decades of experience in home-study education. Where required, its tutors are members of the qualification body they are teaching and they keep up-to-date with industry trends, which is required as part of their memberships. Also, a massive benefit to its student base is the number of its tutors who are running their own successful bookkeeping and accounting practices. Their experiences help to ensure its courses are fully up-to-date, where students benefit from their guidance as they become professional bookkeepers themselves. Now, as Ideal Schools moves towards the end of 2022 and into the new year, it is excited about what the future holds for itself and its students. There are new course developments on the horizon, and as some of the network opportunities start to open up again, it looks forward to meeting with its students, which it has missed since early 2020. Canadian Business Awards 2022 15 Educatio & Training r 11 With new courses, a planned new website, and meeting new friends, there are exciting times ahead! Company: Ideal Schools Contact: Brian McVean Email: [email protected] Website: www.idealschools.co.uk
Ballsbridge Business Centre (Ballsbridge Cyprus) has been registered in Cyprus as a European Administrative Centre of Ballsbridge University, in order to coordinate the international operations of the university. We profile the centre following it being recognised in the Education and Training Awards 2022. Ballsbridge University (BU) is a transnational online university which was chartered in the Commonwealth of Dominica, Curaçao Dutch Caribbean, Kingdom of the Netherlands and Delaware, USA. Affiliated professional institutions, colleges, departments and faculties are located and registered in several countries in order to provide students its online programmes of study. The learning qualifications target students from low income countries and those less privileged in the developed countries in order to support local communities. Ballsbridge University (BU) is accredited by Board of Quality Standards (BQS) which is an international quality assurance regulator that follows the Ballsbridge Qualification Framework (BQF) based on the Generally Accepted Accrediting Principles (GAAP) standards and procedures of the regulation policy, and provides a Statement of Comparability based on the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). The Board of Quality Standards is a member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) and is listed in the European Transparency Register (European Commission) which is a database that lists organisations that trying to influence the law-making and policy implementation process of the European Union. Ballsbridge Cyprus international operations include some administrative BQS services as well. Ballsbridge Business Centre (Ballsbridge Cyprus) is also an accredited centre of Qualifi (Ofqual regulated awarding organisation), and also supports the Professional Membership procedures of the Institute of Chartered Professionals (ICP) registered in the UK. It also offers some operational services of the California University FCE, USA as an authorised exclusive representative with an office in Cyprus. It is an Institutional Member of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN, UK), and an Organisational Member of the National Career Development Association (NCDA, USA), as well as a proud partner of the Duolingo English Test. “The vision of Ballsbridge Cyprus is to become a pre-eminent recognised European as well global administrative centre in the academic community that could improve the quality of life of students worldwide,” states Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eleftherios M. Colocassides, the Dean of Ballsbridge Cyprus. “All partners are recognised in their field as professional practitioners or academics and are coming from different parts of the world. Most graduates get a job which could give them the opportunity to offer back to their communities all the knowledge they have earned to help them develop.” Online learning enables people to obtain international accredited high quality degrees at all levels, which delivered fully flexible, as well as οnline services that provide international recognitions, memberships and professional development. The mission of Ballsbridge Cyprus is to provide affordable ways of personal development to working adults, executives, local communities, ethnic minority groups, refugees, international and European students living in around the world. Ballsbridge Cyprus evaluates and grants academic credits from previous education studies completed in other institutions (Accreditation of Prior Learning- APL) or from Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) like to individuals of merit who have a distinguished record in their field of endeavour based on global and European guidelines and policies about recognition of credit sources. Recently, Ballsbridge Cyprus was recognised for its excellence in the Education and Training Awards 2022 and awarded the title of University Centre of the Year in Cyprus. Assoc. Prof. Dr E. M. Colocassides firmly believes that this achievement is predominantly down to the thriving online community that ‘Ballsbridge International’ team has worked hard to develop and maintain. “Our online academic team has a huge influence on what we do,” he enthuses. “It is an online campus which provides an ideal environment for our focus on pre-eminence and internationalism. This is true not only as a learning centre, but of global as a vibrant community which has long welcomed people from all over the world.” Company: Ballsbridge Business Centre (Ballsbridge Cyprus) Web Address: www.bucentre.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ballsbridge-business-centreballsbridge-cyprus-7b672b9a/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BallsbridgeCy Aug22280 University Centre of the Year – Cyprus
Aug22444 Most Innovative Employee Training Courses Platform - Northern Europe Introducing learning into the workplace can be a difficult task, but with Junglemap’s NanoLearning courses, you can now ensure that your entire team is on the same page. The company’s unique take on education guarantees success. ‘Learning is not an event. It’s a process.’ This is the mantra that supports Junglemap Ab’s unique NanoLearning method, which has been designed in order to give learning the time and space it requires. The company, which was founded in 2002, has distributed over 40,000 courses utilising this technique, and has trained more than six million people internationally, including 1,200 organisations. But what is NanoLearning? Repetition, reflection, and reinforcement are fundamental to the retention of information, and this is what the method is built upon. Courses last for no longer than three minutes, as Junglemap’s data shows that longer lessons lead to a lower completion rate (for reference, 98% complete NanoLearning modules.) There are dozens of testimonials that praise the NanoLearning method, including one from Livin, which reads as follows: ‘I’m happy with NanoLearning. The platform is easy to use and contributes to a positive learning experience that is quick and fun.’ With NanoLearning, organisations receive tangible learning effects, which is based upon Junglemap’s belief that learning within an organisation needs to be the organisation’s responsibility, not the individual’s own decision. As such, Junglemap’s services target worklife learning, which it does through both standard and bespoke NanoLearning-courses with topics including Information Security, GDPR & Privacy, Productivity, Sustainability, and Financial Governance. Moreover, each course is available in over 20 languages, ensuring accessibility. Consequently, Junglemap defines its method as, ‘bottom line: learning is not an event – it’s a process. And no matter how simple that may sound, we know this is truly challenging for many organisations. With our distributed learning, bit-sized learning, we challenge the learning mindset in leadership in many organisations. When many organisations are depending on heavy operated LMS, we’re a disruptive way of looking at learning.’ The importance of Junglemap’s services and the NanoLearning method was emphasised during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Education and training became the main priority for many businesses as they endured the brunt of the outbreak; however, for such businesses the challenge is finding a method that supports the ‘learning mindset’ that they’re looking for. Moreover, whilst Scandinavian countries dodged lockdowns, there was still a shift towards remote work and digital processes. These are areas in which Junglemap has seen an increase in demand. Over the years, the company and its technique have been incredibly successful, even in the face of challenges. In 2022, Junglemap delved into the Benelux and Finland markets, and has also introduced a range of new NanoLearning courses, which have been inspired by the phrase ‘one method – endless ways to use it.’ As the company’s clientele expands, its customers are beginning to use its methods in a variety of innovative ways, including sustainability, code of conduct, AML, and ABC. Contact: Per Lagerstrom Company: Junglemap Ab Web Address: www.junglemap.com Canadian Business Awards 2022 15 Educ tion & Training d 13
The Independent Schools ExamBoard (ISEB) is an assessment organisation founded in 1903 and sitting at the heart of the independent sector. They are perhaps most well-known for the Common Entrance exam (CE) and Common Pre-Tests (CPT). Since the appointment of its first CEO last year, ISEB has undergone a period of enormous change and has come a vast distance in a short time. The exam board has undertaken three major and successful project launches within a year. With core values of accept, transform and inspire and a core mission to support pupils, parents, schools and teachers to be the best they can be, they are taking steps to have a broader positive impact on education. ISEB’s roots stretch back to the first unified senior school entrance exam, so they have an extensive history of designing the highest quality assessments. Research-led, their assessment designs have robust academic underpinning with extensive data sitting behind them. The changes they have introduced make it clear they are an open and transparent board intent on sweeping away the mystery around assessments and demystifying what they do to achieve better outcomes for children and more support than ever for schools. ISEB believes great assessment should be inspiring and transformative and has set about making this a reality. Innovation is not something people traditionally associate with assessment, but it is where ISEB excels. They have undertaken the Herculean task of delivering an astonishing leap forward with rapid digital development and product releases. The leap was essential to meet their goal of connecting with their community more than ever as the school year started in September 2022. A new website enabled ISEB to establish growing resource hubs for schools, teachers and families. It also meant they could bring their CE past paper back catalogue under the board’s roof in an online shop. Encouraging independent sector schools and families to order Common Entrance papers through the shop and register on the new Common Pre-Test portals allow the board to highlight the additional free support they now offer. Creating and delivering high calibre assessments necessitates a commitment to vigorous and ongoing research. ISEB has always engaged with leading pedagogical academics, professors and professionals around the world. More recently, they partnered with edtech experts CENTURY to innovate how they use technology to develop assessments, learning materials and resources that can help children engage in several ways. For ISEB, the collaboration is about recognising the opportunities presented by technological advances to respond to the changing assessment needs of education today. ISEB launched the new online Common Pre-Tests this autumn. Designed on their new platform, the adaptive tests are powered by AI technology and neuroscience and represent the first major product of the partnership with CENTURY. CEO Julia Martin said, ‘We both bring our expertise to the partnership. They’re leading edtech experts and we’re assessment design and educational experts. Working together, it’s a partnership that’s delivering genuine innovation.’ One exciting feature of the new Common Pre-Tests is how it integrates SEND and well-being features. ISEB talks closely with school heads across the sector and has a deep insight into the impact of the pandemic on children at school. Covid has Dec21465 Educational Assessment Innovator of the Year 2022 - UK significantly affected a generation of students. ISEB has responded to education’s current mental health crisis by building accessibility into the test design for every child. Anxious children can hide the timer while everyone can adjust their screens. By giving children control over their exam environment, ISEB can alleviate some degree of stress. In the wider education sector, there is a tremendous amount of questioning over the validity and efficacy of certain public exams and whether they are fit for purpose. With that kind of scrutiny comes a huge opportunity to be responsible and do the right thing. More than ever, great organisations need to be values-led and inspire confidence. ISEBs growth is underpinned by its core values to transform, inspire, and ignite the independent school sector to accept others and take pride in themselves. Fairness, diversity and equitability begin in the ISEB team, which has trebled in the last twelve months. From there, it spreads into the content and assessments they produce. They strive to create a supportive community resource with support and advice for families, teachers and schools around every child. As the first twelve months under new leadership ends, the online bank of assessments, support and resources ISEB offer have proliferated. They have serious intentions to go even further and produce a range of innovative multimodal, formative and summative assessments that represent children in their broadest sense surfacing their strengths and helping them grow. The narrative around assessment is changing as research and technology inform and improve what can be offered. ISEB stands on the back of its experience, ready to forge the path in nextgeneration assessment design. Contact: Julia Martin Company: ISEB Ltd Web Address: https://www.iseb.co.uk/
Proten Sales Development’s Founder is Phil Sayers, a career salesman, sales manager and CEO with more than 35 years’ experience in selling, sales management, and running businesses. During this time, he made all the common mistakes and he has all the scars to prove it. As a result, he learned along the way and now uses those years of experience to help other business owners and sales people improve how they sell and run their businesses. Phil has sold products and services all over the world, including building materials, transport and logistics equipment, design services, accounting, payroll software and services, IT system management software, telemarketing services, and satellite communications equipment. Most recently, he was the sales and marketing director and interim CEO of a UK cloud accounting software vendor. He has recruited, developed, and trained sales teams and he gains much satisfaction from helping sales people and teams become successful like himself, closing sales deals that ranging from a few hundred to over a million pounds. Phil has worked for, owned, and run SMEs, so he understands the mindset required, the pressures faced, and the pride and sometimes defensive ways in which an owner or manager views their business, because it is, after all, their baby. Therefore, he understands that no two businesses are identical and that engaging consultants at high day rates may be inappropriate and unaffordable. Phil also recognises that business owners may not want to spend full days working with an advisor – because they have a business to run. That’s why he offers a menu of services, so the client can pick and choose the ones that are most appropriate and would deliver the most value for them. The packages include monthly or quarterly one-to-one sales and business coaching sessions; open sales training workshops; EPIC Selling, an online, on demand sales training programme; and Sales Mastermind groups. Traditionally, sales training programmes have been delivered in person, which required delegates to spend time and money travelling and often booking overnight accommodation. The COVID-19 pandemic, of course, changed all of that, and Proten Sales Development quickly switched its entire delivery model to be online, and it even developed its brand new EPIC Selling programme which delegates could work through in their own time and at their own pace, so there is no need to disrupt their day-to-day work at all. So, why not get started on your training journey with Proten Sales Development? Phil won’t promise what he cannot deliver, and he’ll waste no time in trying to understand whether or not he can help your business and aims. He therefore offers a no-obligation, 100% free consultation to meet, get to know each other and decide if working with each other will help you. Aug22339 Best Business Sales & Strategy Coaching - UK Many small business owners have no background in selling… They simply have a passion about what they do and hope that this will persuade potential customers to buy their products or services. Add to this the fact that running a business can be lonely – Is it any doubt that many business owners struggle? Effective selling isn’t an art; it’s a process and set of skills that can be learned and developed. Proten Sales Development helps small businesses grow and transform the way they position and sell their products or services, enabling them to sell more, more often, and ultimately build a better business. Canadian Business Awards 2022 15 Educ tio & Training rd 11 Company: Proten Sales Development Ltd Contact: Phil Sayers Email: [email protected] Website: www.protensd.co.uk
An online video conferencing service, Meteor Tutors has cut its teeth on providing a safe, respectful, and user-intuitive platform for the delivery of online global tuition. In a postpandemic world, with online tutelage being more popular a medium than ever before, it has created a platform for learning that focuses on improving the safety and interactivity of video conferencing for young children. Having built a front-running online learning platform that focuses the safety and security of its young users, Meteor Tutors provides a site with an integrated payment system for parents, schools, universities, and workplaces, allowing them to access its services instantly without risk. Moreover, it has developed its internal processes with the goal of always keeping the client at the very heart of the operation, allowing them to match with tutors both for purely online tutelage and for face-to-face lessons – or both – with factors such as scheduling, lesson preferences, and device flexibility in mind. All its video conferencing through the site comes with two-factor authentication as standard, designed for easy use by both student and caregiver. Indeed, the importance of security within this learning and enrichment platform for children’s education has been something close to the founder’s heart right from the start. Created by Anita MacDonald, she grew up with a hankering for learning, one that quickly turned into a love of pastoral care and in encouraging children to see the incredible opportunities that learning can unlock, ensuring that no student’s learning is stymied by a scholastic system still clinging to a one-size-fits-all formula. Thus, in the UK and in the worldwide learning sector proper, it forecasts that schools as they currently are will one day cease to be relevant. Instead, it sees them being supplanted for the better by services such as hybrid learning, giving huge advantages to parents, children, and tutors across the board; this is something she has considered with the development of her platform. With tutors being paid automatically, automated receipts, automated global items, screen share functionality, virtual backgrounds, fade backgrounds, near-non-existent lag that allows musical tutelage to occur online without difficulty, resource upload, and internal messaging, it has made itself one of the best in self-funded, Britishmade, globally focused learning sites. Thus, Meteor Tutors has been leading from the front when it comes to encouraging its sector down a more student-focused, welfarecompliant, and qualification-enabled path towards the future. This will hopefully see those who have taken tutelage on as a ‘side hustle’ seek the relevant qualifications and accreditations, making a safer place for the world’s children in the macro scale, and allowing platforms like Meteor Tutors to usher in a brand-new paradigm of reliable hybrid learning for young people. Having been released to Appstore and Google Play as of last year, it looks forward to continued growth and development, making education free for those who need it most and breaking harmful cultural norms in order to grant today’s children a better future. Company: Meteor Tutors Contact: Anita MacDonald Website: https://www.meteortutors.com/ Sep22091 Best Online EdTech Conferencing Company 2022
Aug22542 Best Work Based Apprenticeship Provider - Wales Apprenticeships provide a clear path into the working world, enabling takers to earn a wage whilst gaining experience, skills and qualifications; and employers to gainmotivated and knowledgeable staff. However, many businesses often overlook the plethora of benefits that onboarding apprentices can bring to their culture and operations; and Cambrian Training is a prime example of those exact benefits. The apprenticeship provider has forged an incredible reputation through its work-based apprenticeship programmes – we take a closer look at their work, to find out why the company has become a key figure on the apprenticeship landscape. For over 25 years, the multi-award-winning Cambrian Training has been delivering expert training in a range of industry sectors, defining it as a leading figure within its field of apprenticeships in Wales. It’s training officers, who are both devoted and enthusiastic, are professionals within a plethora of diverse sectors, including – but not limited to – hospitality, food and drink manufacturing, sustainable resource management, and business. Cambrian Training is on a mission to promote apprenticeships as a great option for all individuals, be it a school leaver or a professional individual wishing to develop in their current role or looking for a career change. Moreover, Cambrian Training hopes to support employers to hire or upskill staff to increase motivation, wellbeing, and retention. They are working in partnership with businesses all over Wales to create a highly knowledgeable and motivated workforce to enhance their businesses. Busting the myths and misconceptions surrounding apprenticeships comes naturally with this task, and it is something that Cambrian Training is deeply passionate about. The company wants to shine a light on the array of positives this work-based training provides to both learners and businesses. For example, government funding enables learners to gain a qualification whilst avoiding the student debt generated by a university course and leaves employers only to pay for their wage. All of the training is fully funded by the Welsh government and the European Social fund, meaning that there are no costs to the learner and all of the qualifications are accredited by established awarding bodies, such as City & Guilds. These accredited qualifications will increase learner’s future employability and career prospects, which are available to all, regardless of age or employment status. This approach has clearly paid off, as during the pandemic the company was showcased in a thematic report by Estyn on Professional Learning. Despite the turbulence caused by Covid-19, the report highlights Cambrian Training’s resilience and ability to thrive and thrive regardless, with one example stating: ‘[…] the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have seen learners from across the full range of industry sectors and levels of study adapt quickly to remote and blended learning methods of interacting and working. CTC staff members have been trialling teaching models that take advantage of this new ability to bring learners together in a digital environment to enhance learning and support wellbeing.’ Indeed, from this excerpt, it is fair to assume that the team have played a significant role in the company’s success. Cambrian Training’s team consists of highly regarded, subject experts, who are respected by both learners and employers. They have high standards, but in return, they strive to stretch learners to exceed the requirements of the framework. Simply, they want to see their students accomplish their goals. This mentality, however, extends far beyond the learning environment and into the community. Cambrian Training strives to give back – it works closely with the Welsh Government to ensure that its goals are aligned, to raise the standards of work-based learning, and respond to the needs of the local economies in Wales. The company supports the use of the Welsh language and culture, and it encourages participants to use Welsh within their modules as much as possible. Cambrian Training utilises bilingual marketing and promotional assets as well in its social media content – the company is proudly Welsh, and it wants to make its courses as accessible and culturally sensitive as possible. Furthermore, Cambrian Training sponsors various local events to support the wider community and causes, and this is something that it hopes to continue going forward. Cambrian Training’s learners have had a wealth of success, with a number winning awards and participating in international competitions such World Skills, World Butcher Challenge and many more. Therefore, whether you’re an individual looking to develop your career, or an employer looking to take your business to the next level, Cambrian Training can help you achieve your goals. Contact: Alison Gill Company: Cambrian Training Web Address: https://www.cambriantraining.com/wp/en/ Canadian Business Awards 2022 15 Educ tion & Training d 17
Languages and communication are the cornerstones of everything. Communication is essential in all, from business to leisure, and nothingmakes that easier than participants sharing a common language. EGI Education understands that well; thus – since 2004 – it has specialised in a uniquemethod for language acquisitionwith its students. EGI Education was born in Uruguay, South America, in 2004 and now operates in Argentina and Paraguay through educational agents. As an educational institution, it hosts a professional team with a solid academic background. EGI specialises in educational travel to English-speaking countries, teaching training to teachers of English, and immersion courses in English for speakers of other languages. Its focus is on allowing the students to learn English through absorption of their surroundings. Its students are its main priority, and it adjusts its programs to different contexts and realities, understanding the difficulties of South American countries. Travelling can be an expensive luxury that cannot be afforded by many families – especially those that would like their children to have the chance to travel to an English-speaking country to improve their English. Therefore, EGI works very hard to offer them alternatives to help them fulfil their dreams with study programs tailored to suit both needs and budgets. The same happens with teacher training programs for English teachers; EGI offers affordable courses, workshops, immersion courses, and teacher training courses in the UK, considering its budgets and allowing them to improve their teaching skills. EGI does not improvise – it constantly learns and innovates. It understands that, in education, the concept of business must go hand in hand with wholesome principles and values. Its clients and students have names, they are not just numbers, and it maintains this humanist approach throughout. EGI embraces diversity and inclusion and is incredibly proud of the team of female English teachers it employs. Communication is essential in its team, and its work is closely respectful of the personal circumstances of all the members of its team. They all have different roles, but decisions are made considering all opinions and points of view. As EGI grows, each will rise; when EGI is successful, they will succeed. Training is another critical factor; EGI trains its members to ensure they have all the necessary tools. It encourages its team to continue studying to maintain the high standards of academic formation it is aiming for. What differentiates it from its competitors is its approach to learning and the way it approaches teaching, specifically within local educational institutions and environments. Education structures in South America tend to be quite classic – it is difficult to change years and years of same-teaching practices. There are vital structures too rooted in routine and tradition, particularly with the considerable gap between private and public education. Therefore, there is little space for innovation. However, EGI is still determined to change that; it considers there is plenty of room for improvement, and it is breaking paradigms. Its programs are not only focused on private institutions located in elaborate neighbourhoods as it mainly works with small institutions located in rural areas and with teachers who work in public schools. EGI is fighting to breathe new life into traditional – and, in some cases, tired – structures to not only bring language to students but also contribute to a revolution in how things are taught across South America. It wants to spread its academic programs to other countries in South America through educational agents. It will also participate in two ICEF conferences in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and San Diego, USA. It is also willing to include new academic programs in more Englishspeaking countries. To accomplish that, it plans to expand the web of educational institutions it works with, focusing on modern and innovative academic proposals. It is also very enthusiastic about launching Spanish courses for speakers of other languages in 2023. This will launch with synchronic virtual lessons and immersion programs in Argentina and Uruguay. This year it will also have the first immersion weekend for English teachers, which will take place in Punta del Este, a beautiful seaside in Uruguay. Teachers from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay will gather to learn, interact, exchange experiences, and do some sightseeing. Its unique approach to language study doesn’t just work to impart language knowledge and fluency – it opens its students to new experiences. Its dedication to its immersion courses as a way to learn, and the passion and resources it has invested into its success, firmly place EGI Education as the Educational Travel Specialists of the Year for South America. The team’s hard work in developing themselves and their students into the successes of today speaks to the achievements EGI is yet to obtain. Company: EGI Education Contact: Dra. Prof. Karenin Gambetta MBA Web Address: http://www.egieducation.com Aug22535 Educational Travel Specialists of the Year – South America
Aug22347 Best Driver Training Provider - East Midlands As an educator, supporter, and advocate for its clients, Driving Solution was created by Habib Rahman in 2007 as a DVSA Approved Driving Instruction business. With Habib himself boasting a driving instructor training ORDIT (official register of driving instructor training) accreditation from the DVSA (driving and vehicle standards agency) proper, Driving Solution aims to help inexperienced drivers to find their feed and build their confidence when it comes to being on the road. The result is a past clientele of satisfied, proud drivers who have achieved their goals and gone on to be safe and competent road users. Driving Solution promotes the utmost road safety and responsibility when it comes to teaching new drivers. Whether it is instructing young people who are entire, a novices to drive motor vehicles it ensures that its courses will take them to new heights of confidence and competence behind the wheel of motor vehicles. Covering training for acquisition for the full UK driving licenses as well as post-test driving programmes, it realises that everyone learns differently and at different paces, and thus seeks to operate in an empathic and personable manner that gets to know each client as a person before developing the programme that will benefit them. Indeed, its commitment to the safety of the client is part of why this is so in-depth. Instead of forcing them to adopt driving habits that they may not understand, it has an in-house ORDIT trainer monitor each instructor and their methods, ensuring that each of them is operating under the strictest accountability to meet the DVSA’s national standards for driver and rider training. It delivers different types of driver training for new drivers and weekly driving lessons, including 1–3-week intensive courses, lessons in manual and automatic transmissions, and lessons in dual control cars, covered by instructors of all genders and with the utmost excellence so that it may compete with any other driving school in its region. There are many such schools and trainers in its region, but none quite so exemplary as Driving Solution. Each of them is backed up by a team of admin staff, each of whom forms a crucial part of its internal workings, providing free social events that foster better communication between each member so that all may meet and share ideas on how to better the company and its services. Moreover, with the driving instruction field changing consistently in line with the evolution of new technologies and UK road law, it strives to keep itself constantly up to date, never stagnating and always pushing to be the driving school that remains ahead of the curve. Company: Driving Solution Contact: Habib Rahman Website: https://drivingsolution.co.uk/ Canadian Business Awards 2022 15 Educ tion & Training d 15
Dental Training Ltd has made specialist knowledge and expertise accessible and available on a bespoke platformwith amission tomake courses affordable to dental nurses, all to ensure that they pass their examinations the first time. Its teamof dedicated staff, the quality of its service and the courses it offers have all combined to craft a custom service that medical students can rely on. Dental Training is the largest supplier of NEBDN post graduate courses for dental nurses and a suite of other certifications. All the staff work full-time for the company, which has helped thousands of dental nurses achieve their qualifications. Its courses not only assist those looking to make a career in dentistry but also provides fascinating and informative for other medical students and professionals, providing CPD hours and additional certifications. Its mission is to make courses affordable to dental nurses and to ensure that they pass the examinations the first time. Its courses are online, so students can take them when and where it is convenient. Its tutors have over 90 years of combined experience in the dental field and have seen profound changes. They work as a team and can all be contacted to deal with any problems. Tutors are available 24/7 to answer any questions, and they – or other supportive staff – can be contacted when convenient. It can even arrange Zoom calls for students to help them with the courses, nothing is too far or too much to ask in the name of helping students succeed. Many dental courses are now online however, many are also run by people working in dental surgery without experience or knowledge in either teaching or delivering distance/online learning to the capacity it can, translating to very mixed results for students. Dental Training’s courses have been online since 2016. It has continually updated its systems and services to reflect all changes to the landscape and the like as innovations have made themselves known. Students do not need to physically attend any classes for their courses, as all theoretical work is online. Students just need to log in and work through each module during home study. Its courses are optimised so that just three to four hours of work a week are all that’s needed, along with reading the recommended material. In addition, the exam style even includes multiple choice questions and is held online every March and September. Those studying through Dental Training can be ready for exam in just six months. And it could not be more straightforward and supportive to obtain a dental certification than through Dental Training Ltd. It has a new website that will go live in the next couple of months – this will be more interactive and include many great features to make the learning experience even more fun. Additionally, it will continue producing top-quality courses with accessibility and support at the forefront. This mentality has shaped Dental Training Ltd into the Best Dental Training Provider in the UK. It has helped thousands of dental nurses achieve their qualifications and is a top-tier service overall. Contact: Tracy Hewitt Company: Dental Training Ltd Web Address: https://www.dentaltrainingltd.com/ Aug22248 Best Dental Training Provider – UK
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