A TRIPLE WIN at the Apprenticeship Guide Awards!!!

We were thrilled to take home a magnificent three awards at a glitzy Apprenticeship Guide Awards evening held at the Hilton Deansgate Hotel in Manchester.

We were named Best College for Apprenticeships, Best Apprenticeship in Engineering and Manufacturing and our higher education Mechanical Engineering student, Alice Foster won Apprentice of the Year.

This underlines the college’s reputation as an excellent provider of apprenticeship training at a national level and comes on the back of the Department for Education’s national achievement rates tables that confirmed Wigan and Leigh as the No.1 college provider for apprenticeship achievement in Greater Manchester. 

College Principal, Anna Dawe said: “Few colleges offer apprenticeship opportunities at the breadth and scale that we do so it is fabulous that we are also being recognised nationally and locally for the quality of the programmes and the successful outcomes that our students achieve.

“These awards are a testimony to the work of our teaching staff, our assessors, employer partners and of course, our students.”

Alice Foster, who is a mechanical design engineer at Cavendish Nuclear, had won Apprentice of the Year at the college’s own Apprenticeship Awards in March and was delighted to take another big accolade.

“It’s a huge honour to have been awarded ‘Apprentice of the Year’ at the Apprenticeship Guide Awards. Receiving recognition for my hard work and commitment at this level has been humbling and is a significant personal and professional achievement.

“I am incredibly grateful to all those at Wigan & Leigh College and Cavendish Nuclear who have supported me along the way and empowered me to achieve my full potential,” she said.