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28 November 2025

Huge congratulations to Northampton College, which has won ECC's Project of the Year award, for their exceptional job evaluation implementation project using FEDRA.

This year's judging panel was looking for overall project impact, improved reward practice and ways of working that others can learn from. And ECC's chief executive Nicholas Johnston said the college's project, Transforming an Employee Value Proposition, ticked all the boxes.

"Northampton College demonstrated a really positive impact on pay equality because they took great care to look at their pay structure," said Nicholas.

"The college had less than 2.5% appeals following rollout, and have seen a 50% increase in job applications year on year. It was a model pay and grading implementation with very clear measurable results."

Well done to everyone who worked on the project at Northampton College, from all of us here at ECC. Look out for the project's case study, coming soon...

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