Double gain for UCLan Midwifery at the Educate North Awards

The UCLan campus in Preston Pic: Tony Worrall
UCLan’s campus in Preston Pic: Tony Worrall

The Faculty of Community Health and fitness and Midwifery at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has scooped two important prizes at a prestigious academic awards ceremony.

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The College received the Social Mobility Award – College Sector as well as the best International Partnership – College Sector at the Educate North Awards.

In a individual award 1 of UCLan’s valued educational partners Preston’s Faculty won the Further Instruction College of the Year category.

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The prestigious prizes, which are a celebration of excellence and ideal follow in the education and learning sector throughout the North, had been judged by a panel of foremost market professionals and professionals. Hosted by Jim Hancock, the specifically streamed event took position on Thursday 22 April 2021.

The International Partnership prize gave recognition to the perform of UCLan’s Elizabeth Gomez and Professor Soo Downe. By coupling face-to-confront and on-line teaching, although performing in shut partnership with the Fernandez Hospitals Basis in Hyderabad, India, UCLan educated a cohort of United kingdom midwives to grow to be educators.

The United kingdom team subsequently travelled to India to replicate this educator schooling with a cohort of Indian nurse midwives.

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The prosperous approach is encouraging to guarantee potential midwives in India are qualified in line with worldwide standards that need training to be undertaken by skilled industry experts.

The initiative also supports the country’s drive to enhance maternal and newborn care and assistance, although minimizing pregnancy related demise prices of mothers and toddlers.

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Commenting on why the challenge was so impressive the Teach North judging panel claimed: “This initiative has extremely crystal clear societal added benefits, increasing the schooling of Indian midwives by means of intercontinental partnership with an Indian healthcare facility.

“It is an excellent collaboration which will benefit the College in the long-phrase though the initiative can be transferable to other countries in need of this perform.”

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The Social Mobility award highlighted the operate of the School’s Well being and Social Treatment team which has designed a sector-major technique, by using a foundation degree programme, to guidance folks with undiscovered opportunity and determination to turn out to be the up coming generation of health and fitness and social care professionals.

Enrolled college students benefit from an admissions plan that consists of non-common entry for learners with very clear evidence of sector knowledge. Supportive program infrastructure and assessment actions as effectively as possibilities for far more than 15 distinctive vocation pathways are all furnished for enrolled pupils.

Details from the 2018 – 2019 cohort demonstrates 79.4% of the College of Wellbeing and Care’s basis programme college students progressed properly to the initial 12 months of an undergraduate system.

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The Educate North judging panel was impressed by the initiative and commented: “This is a very good illustration of how social mobility is becoming amplified via a foundation training course, it presents entry to students who may possibly not have regarded this possibility formerly and is definitely building a distinction.”

Deborah Kenny, Head of College of Neighborhood Health and Midwifery, claimed: “It’s great for the School to gain these awards. I’m so proud for all people included and illustrates our thriving expertise in training, finding out and research.”

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