UK Training Industry Press Releases

‘green workers' with innovative remote working strategies are lined up for prizes

Remote working employees and their companies, across the UK, have been short listed in a national awards ceremony and they now stand a chance of winning the Remote Worker Award as well as being recognised and applauded for their remote working strategies.

Shirley Pickford, a lecturer from Anglia Ruskin University, who teaches students on a fully online work-based degree, is among those shortlisted for an award.  Although working for Anglia Ruskin University, with its campuses at Chelmsford and Cambridge, she is based at her home at Oakenholt, Flint in Wales.

HHHA   er students are mostly in full-time work, so an online degree is often the only way for them to study. She shares their experiences of distance learning, and helps to create genuine collaboration between people who have never met each other.