Lifetime achievement 

For this category we do not publish a shortlist, the winner will be announced on the night of the awards.

Apprenticeship programme of the year

• Bridgwater & Taunton College
• Forth Valley College
• Gower College Swansea
• Grimsby Institute
• Hart Learning & Development
• Loughborough College
• Skills Training UK
• South Devon College

Best teaching and learning initiative

• Ayrshire College
• Bournemouth & Poole College
• Cardiff and Vale College
• Chesterfield College
• Chichester College Group
• Grimsby Institute
• Lambeth College
• West Suffolk College

Contribution to the local community

• Bradford College
• East Durham College
• Leyton Sixth Form College
• London South East Colleges
• Morley College London
• Myerscough College
• New City College
• Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form

Employer Engagement

• Activate Learning
• Bridgwater & Taunton College
• Cardiff and Vale College
• Chichester College Group
• City of Glasgow College, with Edinburgh College
• Hart Learning & Development
• Milton Keynes College
• The Manchester College

FE leader of the year

• Sally Dicketts, Activate Learning
• Simon Pirotte, Bridgend College
• Nick Burnham, Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College
• Shelagh Legrave OBE DL, Chichester College Group
• Stuart Rimmer, East Coast College
• Lee Pryor, Luminate Education Group (Leeds City College)
• Em Lowe, The Bedford College Group
• Mouhssin Ismail, The Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre

Outstanding GCSE resits provision

• Barnsley College
• Bournemouth & Poole College
• Buxton & Leek College
• East Norfolk Sixth Form College
• New Collaborative Learning Trust
• Stockton Riverside College
• St Brendan’s Sixth Form College
• USP College

Outstanding use of technology in delivering remote teaching and learning 

• Basingstoke College of Technology
• ELATT
• Grimsby Institute
• Milton Keynes College
• Oldham College
• The Deaf Academy
• Weston College
• West Highland College UHI, North Highland College UHI and Inverness College UHI

Professional services team of the year

• Dundee & Angus College
• Fife College
• Grimsby Institute
• Hills Road Sixth Form College
• Milton Keynes College
• Moulton College
• North Hertfordshire College
• Waltham Forest College

Support for learners 

• Barnsley College
• Blackpool & The Fylde College
• Cardiff and Vale College
• Edinburgh College
• Gower College Swansea
• Lambeth College
• NPTC Group of Colleges
• Sandwell College

Teacher of the year

• Charlotte Perchard, Big Creative Academy
• Esther Wilkey, Bradford College
• Jose Bravo, Christ the King Sixth Form
• Paul Sparkes, Grimsby Institute
• Andreas Anastasi, Hertford Regional College
• Jack Maude, Milton Keynes College
• Anthony Gascoigne, North Hertfordshire College
• Vicki Banks, Walsall College
  

WorldSkills hero

• Cyber Security and IT team, Cardiff and Vale College
• Nicola Grant-Rees, Gower College Swansea
• Fitness team, HSDC
• Jade Kidd
• Jane Benefield, Moreton Morrell College
• Colin Galley, New College Durham
• Hospitality and Catering Team, South Eastern Regional College
• Team HB, Southern Regional College

Adult and community learning provider of the year

• Norfolk County Council Adult Learning
• North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College
• Richmond and Hillcroft Adult and Community College (RHACC)
• Sutton College Adult Education
• WEA
• Westminster Adult Education Service
• Weymouth College

FE College of the year

• Barnsley College
• Cardiff and Vale College
• Chichester College Group
• Exeter College
• Fife College
• London South East Colleges
• Myerscough College
• Weston College

Training provider of the year

• ELATT
• Fashion Technology Academy
• Learning Curve Group
• Open Study College
• Robbie Fowler Education and Football Academy
• The Skills Network

Sixth-form college of the year

• Birkenhead Sixth Form College
• Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College
• Hills Road Sixth Form College
• Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre
• Peter Symonds College
• Rochdale Sixth Form College

Specialist provider of the year

• Derwen College
• London South East Colleges

Overall FE provider of the year

The winners of the specialist provider, adult and community learning provider, and training provider categories will go head to head with the winning FE and sixth-form colleges for the title of overall FE provider of the year and the winner will be awarded on the night of the ceremony.