Management award for University of Huddersfield

Apr 20 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

ONE of Huddersfield’s largest employers is also one of the country’s best.

The University of Huddersfield has just been honoured by a Government-backed body for continual investment in its staff of more than 1,600.

For 10 years, the university has worked closely with the Government-funded Investors in People, set up in 1993 to help organisations and businesses boost their performance by developing the potential of employees.

Now its Yorkshire centre has awarded the university a special certificate, acknowledging that it has been continuously recognised as an Investors in People organisation for a decade. Huddersfield was one of the first universities to be awarded coveted IiP status and is also unusual in that the entire institution – including its centres in Barnsley and Oldham – is covered.

In celebration of the 10-year achievement, the university invited Carole Reid, the chief executive of the Investors in People Centre for Yorkshire and Humber to its annual Support Staff Conference.