Students "incentivised" by College of FE scheme

Sunday 18 February 2018

The Guernsey College of Further Education sport and public services students’ incentive scheme has been hailed a success.

The incentive scheme was set up last year to encourage high levels of commitment and attendance from students on the sport and public service courses.

The scheme; sponsored by Mourant Ozannes, has been highly successful with around 98% of students achieving the minimum criteria. Rewards centre around team-building and group activities and in the past have included go-karting and sailing.

The scheme culminated with lunch and a session on the driving range at Nineteen where around 35 students braved the cold weather conditions to try their hand with a golf club.

All students were awarded an Incentive Awards Certificate for Attendance & Punctuality by Caren Vidamour from Mourant Ozannes to recognise their achievements and four were presented with ‘student of the term’ prizes in their respective year groups for having attained particular goals or high quality work. They were:

Will Gray - Level 2 Sport
Gemma Langlois - Level 3 Year 1 Sport
Luke Hill - Level 3 Year 2 Sport
Chris Rowe – Public Services

Mr Gray said: “We had a great time at the driving range. It was good to mix with the other sport and public service students as well and I felt it made us gel as a group.  The attendance initiative helps my motivation in college and I will now look forward to the next one.”

Tom Aitken, sport, active leisure & public services programme leader at the college said: "The incentive initiative scheme has been a wonderful success with 98% of our students achieving the minimum criteria.  This is testament to the hard work and dedication our students are demonstrating.  The feedback we received from them has been very positive and we are extremely grateful to Mourant Ozannes for their support ”

Mourant Ozannes managing partner, Jessica Roland, said: "We are proud to support this local initiative that encourages and supports Guernsey's next generation. The 'incentives initiative' teaches students valuable life skills and rewards them for their hard work which is an important learning curve before they enter the working world." 

Pictured: Left to right; Tom Aitken (GCFE), Gemma Langlois, Caren Vidamour (Mourant Ozannes), Christopher Rowe and William Gray.