Author: Billy Camden

It’s been a tiring and testing week but Team UK are feeling “amazing” and “awesome” to have today finished competitions at EuroSkills 2018. Hairdressing competitor Gavin Jon Kyte, who works and trains at Reds Hair Company in Herefordshire, had huge support from friends and family throughout his journey in Budapest. “I didn’t even know my […]

Team UK is celebrating tonight after competitors bagged one gold and three bronze medals to retain its top-10 position at EuroSkills. The team finished in ninth place overall when these successes were combined with its medallion of excellence haul of seven. Picking up Team UK’s gold was Holly-Mae Cotterell (pictured), who was voted Europe’s best […]

The 10th EuroSkills will draw to a close tonight after 28 countries completed three gruelling days of competition. A closing and awards ceremony will be streamed live from Budapest from 6.30pm BST and finish at 8.30pm where we will find out how Team UK performed. Representing the UK was 22 young trades people who competed […]

Crisis-hit Aspire Achieve Advance was given a £7 million apprenticeships contract increase two years ago despite an investigation that found dozens of funding and success rate “overclaims”, FE Week can reveal. In recent weeks the apprenticeship giant has come under heavy scrutiny after its co-founders resigned and the Education and Skills Funding Agency suspended it […]

Two grandees of the FE sector landed in Budapest today to witness “the best of the best” and cheer on Team UK at EuroSkills 2018. Sir Gerry Berragan, chief executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships, and Sue Husband, the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s director of employer engagement, touched down in Hungary this morning to […]

Last night she was specially selected to be the flag-bearer for Team UK, today Elizabeth Newcombe was focused on a different task – intricately designing a wreath and plant arrangement. The 21-year-old (pictured) from Guildford College, which is in skills minister Anne Milton’s constituency, was “incredibly proud” to lead Team UK out at the opening […]

EuroSkills Budapest got off to a breathtaking start tonight as a Hungarian theatre group that will be familiar to the British public mesmerised spectators to officially open the competition. Thousands packed inside the Papp László Budapest Sport arena for this year’s opener, which was live streamed around the world and featured a speech from the […]