LIST OF ACHIEVEMENTS
2009
Gordon Coxson won "Workplace Learner Award" at the Fife Adult Learners Awards.
Lochgelly Miners' Institute won the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Scotland Awards 2009 "Regeneration Winner".
Grand Final RICS Awards—Commended—Lochgelly Miners’ Institute
2008
Scottish Awards for Quality and Planning "Commendation"
2007
IET Techno Games—Young Engineers Winners
Lisa McMurray won “Scotland’s Jobfinder of the Year” at LearnDirect Scotland’s Celebration of Learning. Lisa won the Fife Adult Learner’s IT Award in 2006.
Linda Hunter, one of our Trainees in 2007, was shortlisted at the LearnDirect Scotland’s Celebration of Learning for “Senior Learner of the Year”.
Kathleen Duncan, (Trainee), was shortlisted from over 2,000 entries at the LearnDirect Scotland’s Celebration of Learning for “Overcoming Personal Barriers” .
Won the Scottish Adult Learning Partnership—Good Practice Award for Sustainability.
Filmed by LearnDirect Scotland as a Centre of Best Practice and Excellence for our CISCO Networking course. To encourage the UK Government to fund existing Centres rather than build new ones. The emphasis was on gender and women into training. To be shown at the Scottish Parliament 29th and 30th January at the World Leaders Forum. Chaired by Gordon Brown and Guest Speaker Bill Gates from Microsoft.
2006
Two former trainees won Awards at the Fife Adult Learners Awards Ceremony —Information Technology Award and Workplace Learner Award.
One of our trainees won the Career Changer of the Year Award at the LearnDirect Scotland Celebration of Learning.
2005
One of our Women into Technology Groups scooped the Group Award from the Adult Learners Award Ceremony in May this year.
FWTC won the Best Practice Award in ICT and were commended for the Equal Opportunities Award at the European Social Fund Objective 3 Awards.
Gained Silver Award status from Scotlands Health at Work (SHAW). They have asked to use our “Steps around the World” initiative as a model of Best Practice for future participants in this scheme.
BBC Big Challenge Health Works Award—won Most Improved Employer in the BBC Radio Scotland area. The BBC would also like to feature the Centre as a case study for their website.
Commendation from LearnDirect Scotland for Learning Centre of the Year Award, shortlisted from over 490 branded learning centres in local communities all over Scotland. For this we had to demonstrate excellence in training in line with the LearnDirect Scotland pledge to learners.
Lesley-Anne Mitchell, originally a Core student who progressed to the A+ course, won the Fife Information Technology Learners’ Award, in recognition of her achievements as an Adult Learner. She was also one of five nominated for the Overall Fife Adult Learner’s 2005 Award.
From 1998 - 2004 FWTC won a variety of Awards and Commendations. Please contact us if you wish further information.