Gower College Swansea has been shortlisted in four categories at this year’s PQ Magazine Awards.

The PQ Awards, which take place in London on 26 February, celebrate achievements in the world of accountancy teaching and learning.

The four categories are:

Three AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting students from Gower College Swansea are celebrating after scooping Silver at the Intermediate Accounting SkillsCompetition Wales event at Coleg Sir Gar.

Demi-Lee Clement, Stela Kovacheva and Jasmeet Gaba undertook a range of tasks designed to assess their technical ability and team working potential within a ‘fictional’ accounts department.

Gower College Swansea has been shortlisted as Accountancy College of the Year (Public Sector) at the forthcoming PQ Magazine awards – a title it scooped in 2016.

In fact, this is the third consecutive year that the College – currently the only FE organisation in the UK to be awarded Platinum Partner status by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – has been honoured at these awards.

Gower College Swansea has retained its ACCA Platinum Approved Learning Partner status after five years of dedicated provision.

Currently the only further education college in the UK to be awarded this highly sought-after status by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, it is a measure of the high quality training and support provided to accountancy students.

ACCA’s (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Platinum Approved Learning Partner Gower College Swansea achieved wins in two categories at the PQ Magazine Awards 2017 held on 21 February in London.

Paul Sizer, Curriculum Leader for Accountancy and Finance, was named Accountancy Personality of the Year and Jayne Walker, Lecturer and Mentor for Accountancy, picked up the award for Training Manager/Workplace Mentor of the Year.

Gower College Swansea has been nominated in three categories at an upcoming awards ceremony organised by PQ Magazine, a publication specifically for part qualified accountants.

The college has been nominated in the categories of:

Gower College Swansea has been named Accountancy College of the Year (Public Sector) at the prestigious PQ Magazine awards, a publication specifically for part qualified accountants.

"We are absolutely delighted with our win and very happy to share it with the Accountancy team at the University of South Wales, Newport - it was a great night for Wales!" says Curriculum Leader Paul Sizer.

Gower College Swansea has been nominated in four categories at the upcoming PQ Magazine Awards, a publication specifically for part qualified accountants.

The college has been nominated for Accountancy College of the Year (Public Sector,) Innovation in Accountancy, Accountancy Team of the Year and PQ of the Year (student Kate Reed.)

“We are absolutely delighted to receive four nominations,” says Curriculum Leader Paul Sizer. “Last year we were shortlisted in just the one category so we really feel we are going from strength to strength.”