Four Tes reporters were honoured at the CIPR Education Journalism Awards last night.
Julia Belgutay and Emma Seith won the FE and regional journalism awards, while Charlotte Santry and Jon Severs were runners up in the schools and national education journalism categories.
It meant that Tes received more awards than any other publication, after also receiving the highest number of nominations.
Ms Belgutay picked up the award for Outstanding Further and Vocational Education Journalism for her articles about hunger and poverty among college students.
Tes FE editor Stephen Exley said: “Julia is a tenacious and extremely talented journalist, and this award is deserved recognition of her work on this often-ignored aspect of what colleges across the country do on a daily basis.”
She won the praise of judges for highlighting a “little-reported issue”. One in eight colleges has a food bank on its campus in a bid to tackle hunger, and 86 per cent offer other kinds of support to students who cannot feed themselves, according to this year’s Association of Colleges survey of principals, in partnership with Tes.
Ms Belgutay has been a reporter for Tes since 2011 and has been covering the FE sector for six years. She has now won the FE award for two years in a row.
Ms Seith claimed the Outstanding Regional Education Journalism award for a year-long investigation into school inspections.
Both Ms Seith and Ms Belgutay are former winners of feature writer of the year prizes at the PPA Scottish Magazine Awards.
Tes Scotland news editor Henry Hepburn said: “The awards for these outstanding investigations by Emma and Julia are richly deserved. Both pieces of work highlight the critical importance of high-quality education journalism.”
