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The University of Bedfordshire picked up a Silver Award at the 2011 CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) PRide awards. It was awarded the Silver for 'Best use of Social Media' for it's recent campaigns aimed at staff and students.
The awards recognise excellence in communications and public relations throughout the UK.
The University of Bedfordshire scooped a Gold and Silver at the 2010 CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) PRide awards. It was awarded Gold for the external website (beds.ac.uk), and a Silver award for 'Life' its monthly newspaper for staff and students.
The awards recognise excellence in communications and public relations throughout the UK.
The University of Bedfordshire has been awarded the Web Marketing Association's 'Standard of Excellence' award for beds.ac.uk. The Web Marketing Association was founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and development of the best websites on the World Wide Web. The University received a score of 56 out of 70 (80%) putting us at a level higher than the industry standard.
View the award entry onlineThe UBSU scooped a bronze SUEi award which demonstrates its continued commitment to improving the service it provides to students. The award allows Students’ Unions to benchmark themselves against each other and share best practice. UBSU has been audited over the last two years. Results showed that UBSU has been improving since the audit began and that its communications with students is excellent. It is now aiming to be the first 'small' Students' Union in the country to receive a silver.
The University of Bedfordshire scooped a Gold and Silver at the 2009 CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) PRide awards. It was awarded Gold for Life, its monthly newspaper for staff and students and Silver for its staff intranet in.beds.ac.uk.
The awards recognise excellence in communications and public relations throughout the UK.
The Athena SWAN Charter (launched in June 2005) is a scheme which recognises and celebrates good employment practice for women working in science, engineering and technology (SET) in higher education and research.
The University of Bedfordshire is committed to the advancement of the careers of women in SET and we were awarded with an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in July 2008 in recognition of our achievements following successful submission of collection and analysis of key data and development of action plans on gender equality in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) disciplines.
Read more about the Athena SWAN award
This year, the Heist Awards celebrated excellence in education marketing at London’s popular attraction - Madame Tussauds.
The University of Bedfordshire was successful in winning a Bronze Award for Best Website at the ceremony. And it doesn’t end there.
The University was also a winner in the category of Best Local and Regional Student Recruitment Campaign, for our 2007 clearing marketing campaign, which was awarded a Bronze.
The Careers Service at the University of Bedfordshire is a member of the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) and has gained accreditation from the Guidance Council for the delivery of Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) services to national quality standards.
The Queen awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List to Arti Kumar at the University of Bedfordshire in recognition of her services to higher education.
The Associate Director of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) has become a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), for her new approaches to the career and personal development of students.
To find out more visit www.beds.ac.uk/news/2008/jan/080102
The Centre for Women’s Enterprise (CWE) won a national award from one of the UK’s largest network organisations for businesswomen.
The Centre received the Prowess Flagship Award for Best Practice and Excellence in Women’s Enterprise Development, for outstanding services delivered to women in the East of England looking to start or grow their own business and develop their skills.
To find out more visit www.beds.ac.uk/news/2008/mar/080326-cwe
The University of Bedfordshire was recently named Runner-up for the prestigious title of University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Supplement awards.
Bedfordshire was short listed for the coveted crown alongside the universities of Derby, Edge Hill, Essex, Exeter, and Glamorgan.
It follows the University having the largest rise in applications in the UK. Read more about the University of the Year award...
The annual CIPR Pride awards, which take place in 11 regions around the UK, recognise public relations success and achievement in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Reaching the final shortlist for the annual CIPR awards is proof that the university’s work has been judged to be amongst the best in the UK, and at the ceremony, the University took home the silver award for Best Website and a silver award for Best Publication (Undergraduate prospectus).
A lecturer from the University of Bedfordshire was awarded a prestigious national teaching award worth £10,000 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to teaching and learning in the higher education sector.
Dr Pat Jefferies, Head of Learning and Teaching at the Bedford campus, was chosen from hundreds of nominations by the Higher Education Academy to be awarded the National Teaching Fellowship.
To find out more visit www.beds.ac.uk/news/2007/oct/071003
The Centre for Women's Enterprise (CWE) at the University of Bedfordshire won a prestigious national award for its innovative leadership and business growth services for women across England.
The CWE was presented with the Lloyds TSB sponsored Prowess 'Innovator Award', at the Prowess Awards ceremony, where Erika Watson, Chief Executive of Prowess, commended the team for the extraordinary impact their services are having on women’s lives and work.
To find out more visit www.beds.ac.uk/news/2007/feb/070214-cwe
A scuba-diving university Professor has won a top international award to help him continue his research into climate change by studying the world’s coral reefs.
Professor James Crabbe, Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science (CATS) at the University of Bedfordshire, won the AVIVA/Earthwatch Award for Climate Change Research.
To find out more visit www.beds.ac.uk/news/2006/oct/061027-crabbe
