2016 Leech Prize awards student excellence
Student Wendy Reeves Wood has been awarded the Michael and Joyce Leech Prize.
Pictured are Rachel Green, award recipient Wendy Reeves Wood, and benefactor Joyce Leech.
The prize is awarded to the student on the Foundation Certificate in English Literature deemed by examiners to have been awarded the highest marks on their first year of the course. The Prize, named after benefactor Joyce Leech (a former student of the Foundation Certificate) is given to mark and celebrate Joyce's enjoyment of many years of Continuing Education. The Joyce Leech Prize takes the form of a cheque in the amount of £250, along with the gift of an appropriate book.
Wendy passed exam papers in Early Modern poetry and Victorian fiction and submitted an impressive portfolio of pieces for the assessment of the Approaches to Literature part of the course. She has since completed the Shakespeare summer school and has embarked on the challenge of literary theory.
Sandie Byrne and Tara Stubbs are course directors of the Foundation Certificate.
‘We are very grateful to Joyce and Michael Leech, from whose generosity this award comes,’ said Sandie. ‘It is a wonderful encouragement at the midpoint of the course.’
The Foundation Certificate in English Literature is a two-year, part-time programme, equivalent to the first year of a full-time undergraduate English degree. On completion of the Foundation Certificate, many students go on to complete their English Literature degrees, some in Oxford, others elsewhere, applying for entry in year two of a degree course.
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Published 20 October 2016