Picture: (L to R) Rutland Hotel Sales Manager Katey Dent, Middle top - Cathy Nutbrown, Professor of Education, Middle Bottom - Jackie Musgrave, winner of Rutland Hotel Prize for Education 2009 (with certificate and Star Paperweight), Right - Jackie Marsh, Professor and Head of School of Education
The Rutland Hotel, Glossop Road, Sheffield is supporting education in the city by sponsoring a coveted new award for students at the University of Sheffield.
On Friday 15th January 2010 the inaugural Rutland Prize for Early Education 2009 was presented to Jackie Musgrave, who was chosen from a shortlist of candidates studying for a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education.
Jackie received an engraved paperweight, £100 cash and a certificate to mark her success - and celebrated with a complimentary stay at the Rutland Hotel.
Prizewinner Jackie said: “I was delighted to receive the Rutland prize. Just to know that I had won it would have been enough without the amazing generosity of the Rutland Hotel. I spent most of my prize on an important new book for my doctorate.
“Staying at the Rutland for the two years I was doing my MA was hugely enjoyable. The hospitality was homely and at the same time professional. I was especially grateful that the hotel always catered for my gluten free diet so imaginatively.”
Jools Page, Programme Director for the MA in Early Childhood Education, added: 'The MA in Early Childhood Education at the University of Sheffield draws students from all parts of the globe. It is testament to the quality of the programme and to the calibre of work produced by the students that a shortlist of six nominees was put forward.”
Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Director of Studies in Early Childhood Education, said: "We are delighted that our established partnership with the Rutland Hotel has led to the sponsorship of this new prize. It recognises the quality of our MA in Early Childhood Education and demonstrates the way in which The Rutland values having our students as guests during their study school weekends in Sheffield."
The Rutland’s contribution was also recognized by Jackie Marsh, Professor and Head of School of Education. “The School of Education is delighted to work in partnership with the Rutland Hotel in the development of the Rutland Prize for Early Childhood Education. The prize recognises the outstanding nature of the work of our students.”
Katey Dent, Sales manager at the Rutland, added: "Our hotel enjoys a long-standing relationship with the University and we were very keen to get involved in this new award, which demonstrates our continued support for one another."
