Our achievements
Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards
The leadership and management of Loughborough University and that of its student accommodation team have been recognised as the best in the country in the first-ever Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.
Presented on June 9, 2009 the awards have been introduced to reward excellence in a range of aspects of university life.
Loughborough was the only university to win two awards, including the evening’s main prize, the outstanding leadership and management team award.
Ewart Wooldridge, chief executive of the Leadership Foundation and one of the judges, said he was particularly impressed with the results of Loughborough’s staff survey, which found that more than 90 per cent of staff believed that the University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Shirley Pearce, and her team were doing a good job.
“The overwhelming proportion of staff think Professor Pearce and her team are doing a good job. In my experience, that’s very difficult. People always think that bosses are up to something and they don’t score that highly.”
Of the award Professor Pearce said: “This truly is a team award. It not only recognises the commitment of our senior management team, but also that of every manager, supervisor and team leader across the University, who all contribute so much to making Loughborough such a successful institution.”
Loughborough also took the prize for the outstanding student accommodation team, in recognition of its dramatic overhaul of campus accommodation last year, work that has created 900 new en-suite rooms.
“If you have great people with great attitude the team can produce anything needed, and we have both. I am very proud of them all and of what we have achieved and there is more to come!” said Malcolm Brown, director of imago, the University’s in-house accommodation management service.
