Nominations are currently open for the first ever student-led teaching awards at the College.

Imperial College Union’s Student Academic Choice Awards (SACAs) have received over 400 submissions already – including over 100 from research postgraduates.

The goal of the SACAs is to give students the chance to recognise and reward excellence from staff in teaching, supervising students or in the broader support they provide within departments.

Becky Lane, Union Deputy President (Welfare), hopes that the SACAs will give staff an extra reason to develop their teaching skills or supervision abilities, and will provide an opportunity to “put excellent teachers up on a platform, trophy in hand, in front of their peers”.

“Some of the submissions we’ve read have been unbelievable,” she says. “We’ve seen supervisors go out of their way again and again to solve problems – teaching methods we’d never thought of and that we look forward to publicising around College. And we’ve seen the great things that happen when staff really care about the people they work with.”

The first SACA Awards Ceremony will be held on 21 May in the Queen’s Tower Rooms, and a shortlist of award winners will be announced in late April.

To find out more, visit: imperialcollegeunion.org/ academicchoice