CUBO awards recognise best in student services

Held at Lancaster College through the University & College Business Officers summer season meeting, prizes recognised 6 institutions in England, and The College of Edinburgh in Scotland and Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Eire.

The University of Bath was awarded the headline Campus Encounter of the Calendar year category, with the College of Nottingham recognised in two groups – Excellence in Sporting activities Encounter and its sporting activities department recognised for Finest Marketing and advertising Campaign.

“Many of this year’s entries ended up examples of innovation to assist learners for the duration of Covid, and the excellent of these was excellent,” Jan Capper, CEO of CUBO, informed The PIE.

“The non-academic encounter has normally been important, but throughout 2020/21, universities definitely stepped up to assistance students in lockdown, regardless of whether providing countless numbers of meals to those people self-isolating, making a Xmas Working day for those people not able to vacation house, providing added wellbeing guidance to combat loneliness, or inventing new virtual social and actual physical actions to aid build connections and friendships.”

Bathtub stood out as Campus Knowledge of the Year winner for the array of motion it took throughout the pandemic, she noted, from giving meals and consume vouchers, work out tools and indoor gardening packs, to encouraging regular tests, on the net gatherings which include language cafes, reserve clubs and aid sessions, and takeaway pop-up outlets.

The university also enabled students unable to vacation house in the vacations – but whose flatmates could – to live with others totally free of cost, Capper ongoing.

Furthermore, the University of Edinburgh’s profitable Very best Home Daily life entry demonstrated a “great example” of cross-university cooperation to help learners manage nervousness and re-interact with the Edinburgh neighborhood publish-pandemic, when the Oxford Brookes University partnership with Acquire & Gather and Coop showed “how business and college can perform alongside one another to produce assistance in a crisis, an in general a much better food and retail working experience and aspect-time careers to students”.

CUBO recognised its first honorary membership award to the late Andrew Nightingale, previous chair of the UUK/GuildHE Lodging Code of Observe Governing Board and former director of Estates at the University of Essex.

The posthumous award permitted CUBO to “recognise the large contribution Andrew manufactured to the introduction and improvement of the Code… and the regard with which he has been held in the course of his lengthy and prosperous profession in the increased education sector”, the organisation famous.

“The non-academic practical experience has constantly been vital, but during 2020-21, universities genuinely stepped up to help learners in lockdown”

Former CUBO Board users David McKown MBE of the University of Sheffield and Jon Greenwood MBE from The College of York were being also recognised with honorary memberships.

Other winners included Loughborough University in the Creativity in Catering and Retail classification, University of Warwick for Innovation in Pupil Housing and University of Birmingham for Creativity in Conferencing, Situations and Hospitality.

“A big total of largely unseen operate goes into giving accommodation, meals & outlets, wellbeing and sports activities things to do, recycling, deliveries, childcare and other solutions about college campuses,” Capper extra.

“During the pandemic, party staff ran vaccination and screening centres, cooks flipped from catered halls to takeaway services, cleaners cleaned even with the private hazard, and residence lifetime teams invented a host of on the web functions just about right away. We’re proud to recognise this vital function by way of the CUBO Awards.”

The comprehensive checklist of winners is out there below and a image gallery from the function here.