{"id":4218,"date":"2022-07-28T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:49:58","slug":"our-economics-degree-apprentices-celebrate-the-end-of-their-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/07\/28\/our-economics-degree-apprentices-celebrate-the-end-of-their-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Economics Degree Apprentices celebrate the end of their academic year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Professional Economist Degree Apprenticeship team would like to congratulate our stage 1 apprentices, Jake Gilbert and Caitlin Lilley on achieving \u2018Best Overall Performance\u2019 for stage 1 having scored a stage average of 82%!<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 apprentices, Hebah Pervaiz and Victoria Haigney on achieving \u2018Best Overall Performance\u2019 for stage 2 having scored a stage average of 84%! Fantastic stuff!<\/p>\n<p>This award recognises the hard work and dedication that apprentices have put into their study alongside work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catlin Lilley -Stage 1 Prize\u00a0 (pictured above with Professsor Alastair Bailey)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am so pleased to have achieved this award. It hasn&#8217;t always been easy balancing work with studying, but I have had amazing support from my employer, Ofcom, and the staff at the University of Kent. I&#8217;d like to thank them both for giving me the opportunity and the tools\u00a0I needed to succeed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4222\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/07\/Hebah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4222\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/07\/Hebah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hebah Pervaiz with her certificate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Hebah Pervaiz, Stage 2 Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I am grateful to receive the award for Best Overall Performance in Stage 2 of the Professional Economist degree apprenticeship.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Having received this award for both Stage 1 and 2 has been very rewarding. I am excited for the next and final year of the programme, and the learning and experiences it will bring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4223\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/07\/Victoria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4223\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/07\/Victoria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Haigney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Victoria Haigney, Stage 2 Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u00ad<em>I am delighted to see my hard work in Stage 2 pay off! While it continues to challenge me, the GESDAP scheme has been incredibly rewarding so far and I&#8217;m excited to keep up my efforts as we move into Stage 3\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4225\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/07\/Jake-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4225 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/07\/Jake-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Iain Fraser with Jake Gilbert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jake Gilbert, Stage 1 Prize) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m really proud to have received this award, it&#8217;s good to know that all the hard work and dedication over the last year has paid off&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All the prize winners received a certificate and a prize of \u00a350 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Professional Economist Degree Apprenticeship team would like to congratulate our stage 1 apprentices, Jake Gilbert and Caitlin Lilley on achieving \u2018Best Overall Performance\u2019 for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/07\/28\/our-economics-degree-apprentices-celebrate-the-end-of-their-academic-year\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":4221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}