Computing graduate amongst Britain's top 100
7 September 2010
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Enterprising graduate short-listed for British Graduate 100 Award. |
BU graduate Helen Paget has joined a select group after being short-listed for this year’s British Graduate 100 Awards.
Helen, who recently earned first class honours after completing her BSc (Hons) in Computing, will be recognised for her outstanding performance as a student in the IT & Computing category. The 25 year-old, from Bournemouth, will join fellow BU graduate Isaac Parham at the gala awards dinner in London on 15 September. Isaac was nominated on the strength of his success on the BA (Hons) in Scriptwriting as part of the Media & Publishing category.
Sherry Jeary, Director of BU’s Software Systems Research Centre based in the School of Design, Engineering and Computing, made the nomination based on the consistently high standard Helen achieved throughout her degree. Sherry also highlighted the entrepreneurial skills Helen has displayed in turning her final year project into a potential enterprise activity.
“I was delighted to hear that I had been shortlisted for the Graduate 100 awards,” said Helen, a young mother with two small children. “It has certainly been a challenge to balance my studies and my home life, but I have enjoyed my time at Bournemouth University immensely.
“I am very grateful for the support of the lecturers and staff on the Computing course and for the patience and understanding of my family,” Helen continued. “The standard of the University course was amazing; I would never have imagined that in four years I could go from not knowing the first thing about programming to being able to design, code and sell a system to an international company.”
Sherry Jeary added: “Helen is an excellent student whose work is exemplary,” said Sherry. “In fact, she will graduate with the highest mark ever for any of the 14 degrees that make up the University’s framework of computing courses. This is all the more remarkable because she is a young mother with all the responsibilities that this entails.
“Helen’s final year project is particularly noteworthy,” Sherry continued. “She has displayed enterprise above and beyond the average student by taking visual project management techniques she had seen in a book and creating an outline web system from them.
“Helen then pitched the prospective system to the book’s author who was delighted with her work,” Sherry continued, “and Helen is now working on this system for the author as the project continues.”
Over 13,000 graduates and 70 universities nationwide entered this year’s British Graduate 100 Awards which celebrate the skills and achievements of Britain’s outstanding recent graduates and their universities.
Well-known entrepreneur James Caan, a member of BBC TV’s ‘Dragon’s Den’, will be the keynote speaker at the Graduate 100 Awards dinner.
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