Queen's Anniversary Prize
The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education are a biennially awarded series of prizes awarded to Universities and Colleges in the further and higher education sectors within the United Kingdom. Uniquely it forms part of the British honours system, to date rounds have occurred in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019.
History
The prize is awarded by the Royal Anniversary Trust, a registered charity founded in 1990 to develop a program to mark 1992 as the 40th year of Elizabeth II's reign as British monarch. The program had these four goals:- celebrate the anniversary
- establish an educational award
- promote cultural awareness of the development of the United Kingdom's constitutional monarchy
- to promote commerce, industry, and the advancement of education
The next round of winners will be introduced in Autumn of 2019.
The educational award which the Royal Anniversary Trust established was the Queen's Anniversary Prize.
Prize winners
1994
| Category | Winning institution | Winning department or division | Rationale |
| Engineering & Technology | Heriot-Watt University | Petroleum Engineering | UK's leading academic and research department in its field |
| Environment | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | Centre for Environmental Technology | leading player in the development of a Master of Science degree for environmental management |
| Engineering & Technology | Loughborough University | partnership with the aerospace industry | |
| Medicine, Health & Welfare | Luton Sixth Form College | encouraging student volunteer involvement in health education, especially for HIV prevention | |
| The Arts | Royal College of Art | promoting manufacturing design for the needs of senior citizens |