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Star Awards 2010

SQA Star Awards 2010

Education and training success stories from across Scotland have been honoured at this year’s SQA Star Awards, held on Friday 5 November at the Glasgow Science Centre.

Forty-four awards in sixteen categories were presented to individual learners and education and training organisations from across the country at the event, hosted by television presenter Kaye Adams.

Each year, SQA celebrates the success and commitment demonstrated by individuals, schools, colleges, training providers and businesses.

In addition to the range of Awards presented on the evening, SQA’s Pride o’Worth Awards are given to one individual and one centre who has demonstrated outstanding achievement over the course of the year.

The 2010 Pride o’Worths were won by Richard Glennie, a student from Hillpark Secondary School in Glasgow who won the School Candidate of the Year Award and South Lanarkshire College which won the Innovation Award for the ground-breaking learning and teaching resource, the low energy house.

This year, two special awards celebrating science education and training also featured on the honour roll.

The Science Teacher of the Year Award and The Big Experiment tasked students from school, colleges and training organisation to acknowledge an exceptional individual with a passion for science and tell us about an experiment or research they had undertaken and why it motivated them.

The International Award recognises the work of centres delivering SQA qualifications to international candidates in Scotland or abroad.  On the evening a short clip was shown to give a flavour of SQA's work internationally.

The final prize of the night was the Fellowship Award, SQA’s highest accolade awarded to individuals who have made a significant contribution to education and training in Scotland throughout their career.

The honourary fellowship was presented by SQA Chairman Graham Houston to Hugh McCafferty, Apprenticeships Manager for ConstructionSkills.

Dr Janet Brown, SQA Chief Executive, said: 'Scottish education and training is full of inspirational stories and magnificent achievements from students and centres. The response to our invitation or nominations was phenomenal — selecting finalists in each category was very difficult.

'I applaud all those who entered the competition, and particularly those who made it through to the awards ceremony. They represent the absolute best of Scotland and should take enormous pride in their achievements.'

SQA is grateful to all our sponsors who supported the star awards 2010.

Students from Stevenson College Edinburgh's Music Department

Musical Theatre students from the Dance School of ScotlandSQA would also like to thank Musical Theatre students and Artistic Director Graham Dickie from The Dance School of Scotland and students from Stevenson College Edinburgh Music Department and Head of Music Ken Thomson for providing the evening’s entertainment.

Follow the links below to view the winners of each award and some photographs from the evening.