Queen's Anniversary Prize

The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education are a biennially awarded series of prizes awarded to Universities and Colleges in the further and higher education sectors within the United Kingdom. Uniquely it forms part of the British honours system, to date rounds have occurred in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

History

The prize is awarded by the Royal Anniversary Trust, a registered charity founded in 1990 to develop a program to mark 1992 as the 40th year of Elizabeth II's reign as British monarch. The program had these four goals:

• celebrate the anniversary
• establish an educational award
• promote cultural awareness of the development of the United Kingdom's constitutional monarchy
• to promote commerce, industry, and the advancement of education

The educational award which the Royal Anniversary Trust established was the Queen's Anniversary Prize.

Prize winners

1994

Category	Winning institution	Winning department or division	Rationale	Wxternal link to winner
Engineering & Technology	Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh	Petroleum Engineering	UK's leading academic and research department in its field	http://www.pet.hw.ac.uk
Environment	Imperial College of Science school of Technology & Medicine	Centre for Environmental Technology	leading player in the development of an Master of science degree for environmental management	http://www.env.ic.ac.uk/ICCET
Engineering & Technology	Loughborough University		partnership with the aerospace industry	http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/el/programmes/systems
Medicine, Health & Welfare	Luton Sixth Form College		encouraging student volunteer involvement in health education, especially for HIV prevention	http://www.lutonsfc.ac.uk/lsfcweb
the arts	Royal College of Art		promoting manufacturing design for the needs of senior citizens	http://www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk/programmes/designage/index.html

See also

• Queen's Awards

External links

• The Royal Anniversary Trust
• Page from the Royal website