NCWE Award winners and finalists 2007/8

NCWE Awards are presented to employers who offer quality work placements for students.  A special thanks to our media sponsor Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) and our award category sponsors PricwaterhouseCoopers and Centrica.  GSK and National Work Placement Exhibitions are supporters of the NCWE Awards 2007/08.

Finalists are detailed below and you can access case studies of the winners by following the links on their company name. Alternatively for further information download the NCWE Awards 2007/08 Souvenir Brochure.

• Best work experience provider
• Over 250 employees offering short-term placements of 0-3 months
• Over 250 employees offering long term placements of 4-12 months
• 10 - 250 employees - sponsored by Centrica
• Under 10 employees - sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Public sector
• Charitable sector
• New schemes category
• Nominated by a student
• Nominated by careers advisers/placement tutor

Best work experience provider

• Overall Winner: Shetland Seafood Auctions

back to top

Over 250 employees offering short-term placements of 0-3 months

• Winner: IBM Extreme Blue
• Highly Commended: Procter & Gamble

Finalists:

• Shell
• Morgan Stanley
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Allen & Overy LLP
• Centrica Plc
• Barclays Capital

back to top

Over 250 employees offering long term placements of 4-12 months

• Winner: Virgin Atlantic Airways
• Highly Commended: Microsoft; HJ Heinz

Finalists:

• Intel Corporation UK Ltd
• Halfords
• PSA Peugeot Citroen
• Accenture 

back to top 

10 - 250 employees

• Sponsor: Centrica
• Winner: Controlled Therapeutics (Scotland) Ltd
• Highly Commended: Paradise Park

Finalists:

• GE Aviation
• Exmoor National Park Authority
• Quantum TM
• Rare Limited

back to top

Under 10 employees

• Sponsor: PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Winner: Shetland Seafood Auctions 
• Highly Commended: Appswing

Finalists:

• Derby City Credit Union
• Blue Rocket

back to top

Public sector

• Winner: Yorkshire Forward
• Highly Commended: Lancashire County Developments Ltd; Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board

Finalists:

• Bank of England
• Welsh Assembly

back to top

Charitable sector

• Winner: Lancaster University Volunteering Unit
• Highly Commended: Cancer Research UK

Finalists:

• Shetland Arts Development Agency
• Rainbow Centre

back to top

New schemes category

This category is for employers who have implemented placement schemes in the last 2 years.

• Winner: Calman Trust Ltd
• Highly Commended: Barnardo's; Portal Technology Systems

Finalists:

• Graduate Success
• Sky News
• New Charter Housing Trust Group

back to top

Nominated by a student

• Winner: Johnson & Johnson Wound Management - nominated by Jessica Church
• Highly Commended: BBC Radio Newsroom - nominated by Fortuna Lisa Burke

Finalists:

• Sky News - nominated by Tom Rayner
• Follett Stock Solicitors - nominated by Helen Paull
• Deutsche Bank - nominated by Nick Peplow
• Gurit UK Ltd - nominated by Tom Murray

back to top

Nominated by a careers adviser/placement tutor

• Winner: Xtrac Ltd - nominated by Matt Harrington, University of Hertfordshire         
• Highly Commended: Steve Hughes Car Sales - nominated by Lewis Richards, Aberystwyth University        

Finalists:

• Maynard Sinclair, Ulster Hospital: nominated by Patricia McNeilly, Queen's University Belfast
• MPC Data, Trowbridge: nominated by Dr Rob Williams, UWE Bristol
• Brown Brothers Harriman: nominated by Felicity Robinson, Bournemouth University
• Apex Hotels: nominated by Bernie Quinn, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
• Jagex: nominated by Alastair Lindsay, Rate my Placement

back to top

---