The College of West Anglia has proven their students really are top of the class by winning the Carter Cup on Wednesday 9 March, 2016 at the Norfolk Showground.
The competitors included a mix of apprentices and full-time students from the Carter Academy, City College Norwich, the College of West Anglia, Great Yarmouth College, Easton and Otley College and Lowestoft College.
Finishing 48 points ahead of runners up Lowestoft College, the College of West Anglia accumulated 1083 points in the race for the prestigious cup, won last year by City College Norwich.
CWA also claimed a gold in electric, as well as silver in plumbing (won by CWA’s Jack Bliss pictured below at the CWA Apprenticeship Awards), brick and carpentry. This amassed to a fantastic overall win as a college.
Kieran Scotney, 18, from Downham Market, is an advanced level electrotechnical apprentice with Neil Whicker Electrical Services Ltd. He was awarded gold in Electrical Installation.
He said: “CWA has helped me throughout my apprenticeship; they’ve been really good at supporting me in my job role. I chose not to go to sixth form despite it being advised to me, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do as a career and sixth form would have been a waste of my time as I am a vocational learner. I learn so much from training on the job and couldn’t be happier with my win.”
Neil Whicker, Kieran’s employers, said: “I am really pleased with Kieran’s achievements and his training as a whole, from day one. As a company we have always worried more about producing quality work rather than making loads of money and it just goes to show that this quality stems right through the business as far as our apprentices.
“We have been operating now for ten years and have always had apprentices. It can work out cheaper to send one man and an apprentice to a job and with Kieran especially, it’s like having two fully-qualified men on the job anyway. To us, apprentices are traditional and we are a traditional company. Without apprentices, the industry would struggle to keep training the next workforce.”
The College of West Anglia is one of the largest training providers in the region, and works with hundreds of employers across Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in supporting students (aged 16+) through apprenticeships in a wide variety of work areas. Work-based learning is a great opportunity to combine practical experience and technical support.
Principal David Pomfret has shared his delight in the college’s achievements in the Norfolk and Waveney Apprentices’ competition. He said: “This Carter Cup win is a reflection of how brilliant our apprentices and employers are at CWA.
“It has been fantastic to mark National Apprenticeship Week with so many celebrations; I have been back to the floor as a plumbing apprentice, celebrated with award winning apprentices at the CWA Apprenticeship Awards, and the news of this win is just the icing on the cake.”
The College of West Anglia has proven their students really are top of the class by winning the Carter Cup on Wednesday 9 March, 2016 at the Norfolk Showground.
The competitors included a mix of apprentices and full-time students from the Carter Academy, City College Norwich, the College of West Anglia, Great Yarmouth College, Easton and Otley College and Lowestoft College.
Finishing 48 points ahead of runners up Lowestoft College, the College of West Anglia accumulated 1083 points in the race for the prestigious cup, won last year by City College Norwich.
CWA also claimed a gold in electric, as well as silver in plumbing (won by CWA’s Jack Bliss pictured below at the CWA Apprenticeship Awards), brick and carpentry. This amassed to a fantastic overall win as a college.
Kieran Scotney, 18, from Downham Market, is an advanced level electrotechnical apprentice with Neil Whicker Electrical Services Ltd. He was awarded gold in Electrical Installation.
He said: “CWA has helped me throughout my apprenticeship; they’ve been really good at supporting me in my job role. I chose not to go to sixth form despite it being advised to me, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do as a career and sixth form would have been a waste of my time as I am a vocational learner. I learn so much from training on the job and couldn’t be happier with my win.”
Neil Whicker, Kieran’s employers, said: “I am really pleased with Kieran’s achievements and his training as a whole, from day one. As a company we have always worried more about producing quality work rather than making loads of money and it just goes to show that this quality stems right through the business as far as our apprentices.
“We have been operating now for ten years and have always had apprentices. It can work out cheaper to send one man and an apprentice to a job and with Kieran especially, it’s like having two fully-qualified men on the job anyway. To us, apprentices are traditional and we are a traditional company. Without apprentices, the industry would struggle to keep training the next workforce.”
The College of West Anglia is one of the largest training providers in the region, and works with hundreds of employers across Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in supporting students (aged 16+) through apprenticeships in a wide variety of work areas. Work-based learning is a great opportunity to combine practical experience and technical support.
Principal David Pomfret has shared his delight in the college’s achievements in the Norfolk and Waveney Apprentices’ competition. He said: “This Carter Cup win is a reflection of how brilliant our apprentices and employers are at CWA.
“It has been fantastic to mark National Apprenticeship Week with so many celebrations; I have been back to the floor as a plumbing apprentice, celebrated with award winning apprentices at the CWA Apprenticeship Awards, and the news of this win is just the icing on the cake.”