Duke of Edinburgh’s Award: Awards structure and Timeline of moving through them

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, established in 1956 by Prince Philip, aims to challenge youth aged 14-24 to achieve standards of endeavour across various interests, serve communities, experience adventure, and learn outside the classroom. Sarah Kershaw, a D of E Gold Award holder and Assessor provides an overview of the program's benefits in this video series.

About This Course

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (often referred to as the D of E Award) was set up in 1956 by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. He was inspired to set up this life-changing Award by his former Headmaster at Gordonstoun and it is designed to challenge young people between 14 and 24 to attain standards of achievement and endeavour in a wide variety of interests, to serve their communities, experience adventure and to develop and learn outside of the classroom. Some 67 years later, the Award is still going strong and hundreds of young people across the world participate in it.

In this series of videos, Sarah Kershaw who is herself a D of E Gold Award holder, as well as a Duke of Edinburgh Award Assessor gives an overview of the programme, and its many benefits to young people as well as the community.

About the Speaker

Sarah Kershaw

Sarah Kershaw runs her own Education and Marketing Consultancy with a focus on international relations. She was previously the Director of External Relations at a large boarding School in the UK where she led the Admissions, Marketing and Development teams. Sarah was instrumental in writing and delivering the School’s marketing strategy, and has worked with education agents all over the world helping families and students move to the UK and find the right school.

Sarah has recently started to present at national conferences on marketing strategy and has also delivered presentations on a topic close to her heart, Empowering Women through Education.

Sarah is a Duke of Edinburgh Award assessor, and recently assessed a Gold expedition in the Netherlands.

Sarah Kershaw经营自己的教育和营销咨询公司，重点关注国际关系。曾担任英国一所大型寄宿学校的对外关系总监，负责招生、营销和团队发展。Sarah在编写和运营学校的营销战略方面发挥了重要作用，并与世界各地的教育中介机构合作，帮助众多家庭和学生来到英国寻找合适的学校。

Sarah最近开始出席一些全国营销战略会议，并对她所关心的“通过教育为妇女赋权”主题进行多场演讲。

Sarah是爱丁堡公爵国际奖的评审员，最近刚完成了对一项在荷兰举行的黄金拓展项目的评估。

Contact Sarah Kershaw Sarah Kershaw的联系方式:

Email 电子邮箱: sarah@kershawnet.co.uk
LinkedIn 领英: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-kershaw-b0579560/
WeChat ID 微信号: UKSchools22