Health, Medical and Social Care<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: Learning Curve Group<\/p>\n
Apprentice: Neelam Rahman of Spamedica<\/p>\n
Employer: Derbyshire Care Services<\/p>\n
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Retail, Hospitality and Tourism<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: ICQ<\/p>\n
Apprentice: Mehreen Ayub of Admiral Recruitment<\/p>\n
Employer: Sparkbrook Pharmacy<\/p>\n
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Charity, Voluntary Organisations and Public Services<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: Royal Air Force<\/p>\n
Apprentice: Arandeep Pannu of Wolverhampton Council<\/p>\n
Employer: Barnardos ETS Yorkshire<\/p>\n
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Construction<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: Dudley College<\/p>\n
Apprentice: Deve Shokar of DMA Mechanical & Air Conditioning<\/p>\n
Employer: K10 Apprenticeships<\/p>\n
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Engineering and Manufacturing<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: In Comm Training<\/p>\n
Apprentice: Kiran Samra of Rolls Royce<\/p>\n
Employer: Siemens<\/p>\n
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Creative and Digital<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: Jisc<\/p>\n
Apprentice: Asif Rahman of DigiLab<\/p>\n
Employer: BT Group plc<\/p>\n
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Transport and Logistics<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: The National Skills Academy<\/p>\n
Apprentice: Asad Ali of Certas Energy UK<\/p>\n
Employer: Euro car Parts<\/p>\n
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Small Employer of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: Severn Trent Water<\/p>\n
Winner: Market Street Health Group<\/p>\n
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Large Employer of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: Collab Group<\/p>\n
Winner: Ryder<\/p>\n
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School or Academy of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: NOCN<\/p>\n
Winner: Cardinal Newman Secondary School<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nLearning Provider of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: AELP<\/p>\n
Winner: Nova Training<\/p>\n
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Overall Contribution to Apprenticeships<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: The Pathway Group<\/p>\n
Winner: Sue Husband of ESFA<\/p>\n
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Apprentice of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\nSponsor: APM<\/p>\n
Winner: Naila Bibi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MORE than 500 people have celebrated the best of apprentices from the British Asian community and the companies and organisations that employ them. The second annual Asian Apprenticeship Awards took place at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on Thursday, November 2, in front of apprentices and leaders from business and education. More than 20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51,53,3,283,112],"tags":[476,477,478],"class_list":["post-24694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-events","category-latest","category-news","category-top-news","category-top-stories","tag-asian-apprenticeship-awards","tag-charlie-mulins","tag-pimlico-plumbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Charlie Mullins, who left school at the age of 15, to take up a plumbing apprenticeship and has since gone on to become Britain\u2019s first millionaire plumber, was the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38176958932_32ba5092ca_o-300x200.jpg\")
The awards support the Government\u2019s target of increasing the number of apprentices by 20 per cent by 2020.<\/p>\n