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Institute of IT Training Awards shortlist announced

Nearly 40 organisations and 14 individuals have been named on the shortlist for this year's Institute of IT Training Awards.

The Award winners will be announced at a ceremony sponsored by the British Computer Society on 1st February next year. The event will be hosted by TV broadcaster Lucy Alexander and take place at The Dorchester, London.

The full list of those shortlisted for each category is as follows:

e-Learning Project of the Year

• Scottish Prison Service College
• BUPA Care Services and Organisation Development
• Priory Group and Information Transfer
• Intuition, NHS Core Learning Unit & Thames Valley University
• Line Communications & BBC Training and Development Department

External Training Project of the Year

• Globaltech Solutions and Deloitte and Touche
• The SAS Life Sciences Academy in association with SRG
• Ashbury Training and Marks and Spencer
• Parity Training and The Serious Fraud Office
• Quasar with Ocado
• DACG and Xerox

Freelance Trainer of the Year

• Julia Emelogu - Maximum Impact Solutions
• Huw Griffiths - Web Site Work Ltd
• Sarah Barnard

Internal Training Project of the Year

• Leeds City Council
• NRG / Nashuatec
• East Sussex County Council
• BUPA Business Technology Training
• ABN AMRO
• University of Salford

Learning Centre of the Year

• East Sussex Training and Development Centre
• Love and Tate / Pitman Training
• Training Camp UK

Staff Development Programme of the Year

• Fujitsu Services
• Thomson Scientific - Global Learning and Development

Trainer of the Year

• Tracy Fell Smith - BUPA Care Services
• Matt Atkinson - Joskos Training
• Stephen Dibdin - Scottish Prison Service College
• Amanda Ranall-Gavin - Sidley Austin
• Rachael Worrall - Happy Computers
• Dr. Darren Burford - QA-IQ

Training Company of the Year

• Training Camp UK
• KnowledgePool Group
• Saffron Interactive
• Happy Computers
• FDM Group
• PPI Learning

Training Department of the Year

• NRG
• Thomson Scientific - Global Learning and Development
• GVA Grimley
• Intel Corporation Information and Technology Department
• EMIS

Training Department of the Year (Public Sector)

• Sussex Health Informatics Services
• City of London Corporation Desktop Training Services
• Kent Police Force Communications Centre
• Belfast City Council - Information Services Belfast

Training Manager of the Year

• Julie Ferroni - West Sussex County Council
• Christian Janssens - NRG
• Martyn Bullard - Globaltech Solutions
• Joanne Ward - EMIS
• April Hewitt - Styles and Wood

In addition, one person who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the IT training industry will receive the QA-IQ sponsored Colin Corder award at the Awards' ceremony.

Colin Steed, the IITT's chief executive, said: "Once again the standard of entries in all categories has risen showing the industry's commitment to continuous improvement; the main objective of the IITT. The judges who will now determine the award winners will have a very difficult time again this year."

As in previous years there will be a charity auction in aid of the charity Childline. The IITT's aim is to raise £20,000 on 1st February to achieve a 5 year total of £100,000.

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