{"id":20144,"date":"2018-03-06T22:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20144"},"modified":"2018-03-06T22:36:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:36:30","slug":"abingdon-witney-college-kick-off-national-apprenticeship-week-with-regional-award-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20144","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon &#038; Witney College kick off National Apprenticeship Week with regional award win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18030601.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon &#038; Witney College\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon &#038; Witney College have been recognised as the leading apprenticeship provider in the South of England at the inaugural Annual Apprenticeship Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The awards took place at a reception at the House of Commons, sponsored by the chair of the education select committee Robert Halfon, kicking off the celebrations at the start of National Apprenticeship Week (NAW).<\/p>\n<p>Support has flooded in since the announcement was made on Monday afternoon. Robert Courts, MP for Witney &#038; West Oxon, was at the event to &#8216;<em>celebrate all the great things that companies and apprentices are doing all over West Oxfordshire&#8217;<\/em> and commended the College, whilst MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon, Layla Moran also offered her congratulations. <\/p>\n<p>Di Batchelor, Principal at the College, said: <em>&#8216;We can\u2019t overstate the value of this kind of award and the recognition it brings to the College as a premier provider of high quality apprenticeships.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon &#038; Witney College have been recognised as the leading apprenticeship provider in the South of England at the inaugural Annual Apprenticeship Awards. The awards took place at a reception at the House of Commons, sponsored by the chair of the education select committee Robert Halfon, kicking off the celebrations at the start of National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}