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Awards & Achievements
"It is important that we continue to strive to be better tomorrow than we are today in everything that we do" - Rory MacDonald, Chief Executive.
Awards/Accreditations:
- Best of the Best awarded by the Adult Learning Inspectorate.
- Beacon Status awarded by Government Ministers.
- ALI Grade 1: Outstanding awarded by the Adult Learning Inspectorate.
- National Training Award for "the excellence of training provided".
- Investors in People Accreditation.
- BHS Accredited.
Other Acheivements
- We train nearly 3 times as many Government funded Apprentices in Racehorse Care and Racehorse Care and Management, compared to our nearest competitor.
- Our achievement rates are 22% above the national average for Work Based Learning.
- Over half of the Champion Apprentice Jockeys over the last 15 years started their career on the Foundation Programme at The British Racing School.
- In 2006 we celebrated our 2500th graduate from a nine-week course who had been placed in a full-time job in the Racing Industry.
- Rory MacDonald, Chief Executive was short listed for the Racing Welfare Pride of Racing Awards for being "Dedicated to giving young people the best possible grounding".
- The following were shortlisted for the QIA Star awards. These awards are designed to recognise and reward the true STARs of the further education system :
Sarah Hayde - Workplace Co-ordinator
Colin Rayner - Senior Instructor
Mary Coll - Former Instructor