Wales Quality Award
11/11/2008
Its official! Yale –Wrexham’s tertiary college has been acclaimed the highest quality organisation in Wales!
The Chairman of the Wales Quality Centre, Vincent Kane OBE, personally presented Yale College with the prestigious accolade of Overall Wales Quality Award Winner 2008, when he visited the college on Friday 12th December, in front of over 130 college staff, governors and guests.
The distinguished Welsh journalist and Chairman of the Wales Quality Centre, spoke to guests about the College’s outstanding achievement of this award, calling it the “pinnacle of awards that can be achieved in Wales” and stressing that Yale College had achieved it over businesses and organisations from every sector across the principality. He was also highly impressed that the College had gained the award in just 2 years since its first entry in 2007 and said that it should be very proud of its achievements.
After gaining “Best Newcomer” in 2007, this year Yale College was announced as the Overall Winner of the Wales Quality Award. The awards were presented in November at a prestigious event in Cardiff’s City Hall, where Yale also achieved the “Learner Award”.
With every reason to be proud, the College has been praised for its excellent performance in leadership, policies and partnerships designed to achieve and record outstanding results. Based on the EFQM European Excellence Model, the assessment process for this award is well known for being rigorous and places the College at the impressive level of the full European Quality Award.
Congratulating everyone involved, Yale College Principal, Paul Croke said, “This is a pinnacle of achievement for the College in its quest for excellence and is an outstanding contribution to Further Education in Wales. To win this award during ‘Colleges’ Week’, a UK wide week celebrating the contribution of colleges to learning, is especially relevant.”
Jon Cartmell, Director of Standards & Performance at the College, commented, “Yale College is a vibrant learning community. This award is a tribute to the sustained hard work carried out by students and staff in our aim to achieve world class standards in Further and Higher Education, Adult and Community Learning and Work-based learning.”
