Strode College held their awards this month, nominating students who completed their courses last year. There were 23 categories in the awards, based on outstanding performance on courses and exceptional personal qualities. Most of those who received awards had completed A Levels and vocational qualifications last year, but there were also awards for Higher Education Student of the Year, Adult Student of the Year, Apprentice of the Year, the Rachael House Award for Skills for Life and Success Against the Odds. Katy Quinn, principal and CEO of the college in Street, said: “Whilst unfortunately unable to hold our usual annual awards ceremony due to the pandemic, we still wanted to celebrate the incredible hard work and achievements of all our students.
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This is why I love my Sowetan 08 March 2021 - 09:24
Tsholofelo Motlogeloa, 33, a community researcher and facilitator at Azania Management Consultants from Thaba Nchu, Free State
“I grew up in football. When I was selected for the preliminary squad of South Africa’s national under-23 soccer team (Amaglug-glug) in 2005 by then coaches Steve Komphela and the late Styles [April] Phumo, I saw myself in the paper after people living in my community told me that they saw my name in Sowetan. I then started following it.
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