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14 The Linguist Vol/56 No/1 2017 www.ciol.org.uk AWARDS FOCUS IoLET AWARD WINNERS 2016 Qualification Certificate in Languages for Business Certificate in Bilingual Skills: Police Diploma in Public Service Interpreting Diploma in Police Interpreting Diploma in Translation Special Awards Award Middleton Cup for best candidate Pilley Cup for best group entry McInally Trophy for best candidate Susan Tolman CPD Prize for best candidate Susan Tolman Award for best Law candidate Corsellis Cup for best Health candidate Nuffield Trophy for best group entry NRPSI Award for best candidate Richard Lewis Trophy for best candidate Fred Brandeis Trophy for best English/German candidate Peter Newmark Award for best Literature candidate Schlapps Oliver Shield for best group entry David Crystal Trophy for outstanding contribution to the field of languages Threlford Memorial Cup for significant contribution to fostering the study of languages Winner Charlotte Traynor (French, University of Huddersfield) Shrewsbury High School Bruno Rebeschini (French/English) Agnieszka Charzyńska (Polish/English) Agnieszka Charzyńska Dominique Marie de la Cruz (Spanish/English) Peterborough Interpreting Academy Véronique Cubilié-Ratio (French/English) Julien Charles Georges Ivers (English/French) Stefanie Ochel Sophie Leonie Renee Verschuur (Dutch/English) Akademie für Fremdsprachen Dr Lid King Sally Fagan Business Language Champions by the National Space Academy and initially funded by the Institute of Engineering Technology. It seems that the battle to increase the numbers studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is being supported by SLTs in a way that languages teachers can only long for. Creating opportunities My own personal journey started at school with an inspiring German teacher. She infected us all with her love of the language and the country. When I left university, part of the General Electric Company (GEC) was looking for an Export Sales Engineer and I persuaded them to take me on instead; it proved easier to employ a linguist and train her in engineering than to take on an engineer and train him(!) in French and German. Could I have done that export job without languages? Yes, but they proved invaluable in so many ways. Assigned to Latin America, I learned some Spanish. With a family move to Singapore, I learned some Mandarin. From there I moved into management training, where I have been ever since. Being able to offer soft skills training in both English and German has given me a unique selling point in an increasingly tough market. My languages have allowed me to be interviewed in French on live Tahitian television news, train tribal leaders on a remote Pacific island, and visit most of Latin America. They have helped me gain interesting German assignments while my monolingual management training colleagues struggled to get work. It makes me feel proud to be able to stand up in front of young people and say that I am living proof that languages open opportunities that they have probably never dreamed of. Sally Fagan was awarded the IoLET Threlford Memorial Cup for significant contribution to fostering the study of languages in 2016. Notes 1 BLC in its original format still runs with Scottish Government funding in Scotland via SCILT. This is a separate organisation to Business Language Champions in England. 2 Holman, J (2014) 'Good Career Guidance', Gatsby, 24; www.gatsby.org.uk/education/ programmes/good-career-guidance HRH Prince Michael joins the award winners as they pose with their trophies