MONITOR
EDUCATION
WCIT - City University London, Best Student Prize
T
he Company has recently been establishing closer ties with City
University London which has been linked with the City of
London since 1894, when the Earl of Northampton set up the
Northampton Institute to promote industrial skills with the backing of
various London livery companies. Indeed the Lord Mayor is also
always the Chancellor of City University.
As part of this new relationship the Company funded a “Best Computer
Science Student” prize of £100 which was established with the support
of Professor Kevin Jones, the former Head of Computer Science at City
University and WCIT Freeman.
At the Business Lunch on the 19th November last year, The Master
presented the prize to Paul Pires, the winner for the academic year
2013/14, who was somewhat overawed by the “grandiose” occasion.
Best Student Prize Winner Paul Pires with the Master,
Nicholas Birtles
Paul graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Computer Science
and during his time at City he worked on building an educational
emulator of the Intel 8080 microprocessor as a part of his dissertation.
Since then, his interests have shifted towards the areas of mobile and
web development and more generally, computer entertainment. He is
currently working as an Associate Software Developer at Sky.
The primary objectives of these IT awards are to:
Raise the profile of WCIT
Encourage students to pursue careers in IT
Encourage entrepreneurial and charitable ethos
amongst students
To give financial help to students in need
The “Best Student Prize” will be replaced by the “WCIT Information
Technology Awards” in 2015 which is a new scheme to support IT
students in Universities across the UK.
The Company is very committed to increasing
engagement with Universities, supporting
students with their IT studies and to ensure that our
support for education spans schools, Further
Education and Higher Education.
Contributed by WCIT Court Liveryman, Phil Jones, Chairman of the WCIT Education & Training Committee
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members to use for internal communications)
We would like to thank Gerald Sharp Photography for providing the
photographs of the 2015 New Freemen’s Dinner. Anyone wishing to obtain
these, plus many others, please visit: www.sharpphoto.co.uk
Phone: 020 7600 1992
We would also like to thank Past Master Robin Laidlaw, Junior Warden Chris
Histed and Court Assistants Kerri Mansfield and Gill Craig for providing the
WCIT news and events photographs.
Also thanks to Conductive Education; Church Housing Trust and Bristol
Braille Technology for providing their respective photographs from their
charities.
Also a thank you to the City of London Corporation for providing
permissions to use the City of London Coat of Arms in Monitor and to the
Mercers Company for use of their Coat of Arms.
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The charitable activities of the WCIT are run by our subsidiary WCIT Charity
(Reg Charity No 1113488)
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Printing was by the students of the
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