The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education are a biennially awarded series of prizes awarded to

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and

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in the further and higher education sectors within the

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. Uniquely it forms part of the

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, to date rounds have occurred in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021.

History

The prize is awarded by the Royal Anniversary Trust, a

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founded in 1990 to develop a program to mark 1992 as the 40th year of Elizabeth II's reign as

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. The program had these four goals: *celebrate the anniversary *establish an educational award *promote cultural awareness of the development of the United Kingdom's

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*to promote commerce, industry, and the advancement of education Past winners have been recognized for work in a wide range of disciplines such as science, engineering, arts and the creative industries, education, the humanities, the environment and medicine. The next round of winners will be introduced in Autumn of 2023. The educational award which the Royal Anniversary Trust established was the Queen's Anniversary Prize.

Prize winners

1994

1996

1998

2017

References

External links

The Royal Anniversary TrustPage from the Royal website
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