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07 April 2022Caption: WorldSkills Medal Presentation at NWSLC
Students and alumni from North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College (NWSLC) have been honoured at a special ceremony where they were formally presented with medals won at the WorldSkills UK skills competition. The ceremony was hosted by the college’s board of governors and medals were presented by Marion Plant, OBE FCGI, Principal and Chief Executive of NWSLC.
The college collected 16 medals at the national WorldSkills UK finals last year putting NWSLC at the top of the table in England, and fourth in the UK winning five Gold, three Silver and eight Bronze medals.
The medal winners had previously been recognised at the college’s online Celebration of Achievement event in January and this was the first opportunity they had to join together and celebrate in person.
Those attending the ceremony included Gold medal winners:
Marion Plant, OBE FCGI, who is also deputy chair and trustee of WorldSkills, said, “We were delighted to welcome so many of our talented medal-winners to the college to celebrate in person and to receive their medals. The college performed very strongly in the competition last year and we are so proud of all our students who worked so hard to achieve such fantastic results. Congratulations to all of them, and thanks to their tutors who helped to keep them on track and provided them with so much support and encouragement.
“We were delighted that the outcome put us at the top of the medals table for English colleges and particularly pleased that our students excelled in the foundation skills competitions, placing our college at the top of the league table for the whole of the UK. Foundation skills competitions, designed for those with special educational needs and disabilities, were originally conceived and first started by NWSLC, so we are particularly proud of our success in this area.”
Other medal winners in attendance at the ceremony were:
Governor, Andrew Turner, who is Chair of the Students’ Learning and Quality Committee, gave the closing vote of thanks.
Alumni from NWSLC are continuing to train to represent the UK on the world’s stage at the bi-annual WorldSkills competition in Shanghai in October 2022. Former student and Nuneaton chef Chloe Lloyd-Hughes will compete in the culinary arts category while Ellie Ruff from Nuneaton will take on challenges in visual merchandising. Both are members of the prestigious WorldSkills UK Talent Development Programme after previously excelling in its national skills competitions.
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