{"id":45,"date":"2021-02-12T17:50:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/?p=45"},"modified":"2021-02-18T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:29:36","slug":"vicky-haigney-is-awarded-joint-winner-of-best-overall-performance-for-stage-one-of-the-economics-degree-apprenticeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/2021\/02\/12\/vicky-haigney-is-awarded-joint-winner-of-best-overall-performance-for-stage-one-of-the-economics-degree-apprenticeship\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicky Haigney is awarded joint winner of \u2018Best Overall Performance\u2019  for Stage One of the Economics Degree Apprenticeship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce Vicky as joint winner of \u2018Best Overall Performance\u2019 award for stage 1 of the Economics Degree Apprenticeship. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/about\">University of Kent School of Economics<\/a> award recognises the hard work and dedication that she has put into her studies alongside work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My desire for work experience led me to apprenticeships,&#8221; she explains &#8220;however most \u2018economic\u2019 apprenticeships I found focused on gaining finance qualifications rather than a degree. When I found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/civil-service-government-economic-service\">GESDAP<\/a> apprenticeship, it boasted the perfect combination of studying economics and applying it in the field, an opportunity which I could not pass up on! So, I applied and never looked back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vicky is a Year 2 GES Apprentice Economist working in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/\">Office for National Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being awarded the Best Overall Performance prize for Stage 1 of my degree apprenticeship has proven to me that my hard work really does pay off.&#8221; she told us &#8220;This motivates me every day to learn new things and to take on challenges outside of my usual comfort zone. I will strive to apply the same work ethic that allowed me to succeed in Stage 1 to all aspects of my future study and work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well done Vicky! Well deserved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vicky is studying for <\/em><em>an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/digital-lifelong-learning\/apprenticeships\/employing-an-apprentice\/professional-economist\">Apprenticeship, Professional Economist L6 and BSc Professional Economist with Hons.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce Vicky as joint winner of \u2018Best Overall Performance\u2019 award for stage 1 of the Economics Degree Apprenticeship. This University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/2021\/02\/12\/vicky-haigney-is-awarded-joint-winner-of-best-overall-performance-for-stage-one-of-the-economics-degree-apprenticeship\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178771],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/econdegreeapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}