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• Winners of the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes announced

  Story posted 25 November 2011

  From nuclear research, to eye disease, creative writing, food security and vocational skills for work: excellence, innovation, and impact in the UK’s Higher and Further Education sector celebrated 18 universities and 3 further education colleges win highest national honours Twenty-one institutions have tonight been announced as winners of the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education. The announcement was made by the Royal Anniversary Trust by kind permission of Her Majesty The Queen, at a reception at St James’s Palace. The 2010-12 ‘Diamond Jubilee’ Round winners of the prestigious biennial Prizes include eighteen universities and three further education colleges from across the UK. One h...
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• Presentations at Buckingham Palace

  Story posted 25 February 2011

  
  The Queen, with The Duke of Edinburgh, made presentations to the 21 Round 8 Prize-winners at an honours ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 19 February 2010.  Afterwards The Queen and the Duke gave a reception for the Prize-winners’ representatives, including staff and students, and other guests in the Picture Gallery.  A DVD of the ceremony, including film taken during the reception, is available from British Ceremonial Arts Ltd at  www.bcafilm.co.uk. On 18 February 2010, the evening before the Buckingham Palace presentations, the Trust held a national banquet at Guildhall to celebrate the achievements of the Prize-winning institutions.  Music was provided by students from The Royal College of Music (“Exhibition B...
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• Appointment of Trustees

  Story posted 16 December 2010

  The Trust appointed five new Trustees in May 2010.  They joined the existing Trustees, listed immediately below: Kieran Poynter (Chairman of the Trust) is a chartered accountant who spent 37 years with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the last eight as Chairman and Senior Partner.  Since retiring from PWC at the end of 2008 he has been appointed as a non-executive to the boards of three public companies and three private companies.  He was appointed a Trustee of The Royal Anniversary Trust in 2006 and appointed Chairman in 2010 following the retirement of the Founder Chairman, Sir Robin Gill KCVO.  Clive Mather retired from Shell in 2007 having been Chairman of Shell UK and then President and CEO of Shell Canada Ltd.&n...
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• National banquet at Guildhall

  Story posted 29 September 2010

  
  On 18 February 2010, the evening before the Buckingham Palace presentations, the Trust held a national banquet at Guildhall in the City of London to celebrate the achievements of the Prize-winning institutions.  Music was provided by students from The Royal College of Music ("Exhibition Brass") and Trinity Laban College ("Trinity Jazz Ensemble"), and by pipers from The London Regiment.  Fanfares were played by state trumpeters from The Band of The Blues and Royals.  The Scots Guards provided an escort detachment.  Hospitality students from further education colleges and from Thames Valley University assisted with the presentation of the event.  Professor Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University and Professor Sir Graeme Dav...
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• Retirement of Founder Chairman

  Story posted 28 September 2010

  
  The Trust's Founder Chairman, Sir Robin Gill KCVO, retired on 30 April 2010.  Robin conceived the idea of the Trust in 1990 as a framework for an ambitious national programme of celebration - and thanks for her years of service - to mark the 40th anniversary, in 1992, of The Queen's accession to the throne.  He subsequently developed the concept of the Prizes scheme, securing the approval of the Palace and all-party support in Parliament.  As Founder Chairman Robin Gill built up a wide range of support for the scheme in the public and private sectors, both financial and in the form of pro bono help.  He was knighted by The Queen in 2010.  Kieran Poynter, lately Chairman and Senior Partner of Price W...
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