Paragon Skills wins Training Provider of the Year at AAC Apprenticeship Awards

Paragon Skills won Training Provider of the Year 2023 at the AAC Apprenticeship awards! Find out what they had to say, and how you can find an apprenticeship with them….

Tuesday 14th March 2023 saw the FEWeek and AELP AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2023, in association with City & Guilds take place. The awards aim to celebrate apprenticeship delivery and recognise the people, teams, and organisations that make outstanding apprenticeships happen alongside this the achievements of apprentices, schools & colleges, employers, and training providers. The event in its 6th year saw over 500 people from the apprenticeship sector in attendance.

Paragon Skills was delighted to receive the highest possible recognition in the apprenticeship sector, taking home the Training Provider of the Year 2023. Over 375 entries were received from training providers, colleges, universities, and employers. Paragon Skills would like to thank all of our colleagues, learners, and employer partners for all of the hard work they put in that allow us to receive recognition of this standing.

Paragon Skills also stood as a finalist in Care Services Apprenticeship Provider of the Year category, unfortunately coming in second place to Manchester Metropolitan University; whom we would like to wish a huge congratulations to, as well as congratulating all the finalists and winners of the AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2023.

The below quote from Shane Mann presenting at the awards night, summarises the sector and the work we do so well:

“Great apprenticeships don’t happen by accident. Our winners demonstrate that excellence happens when dedicated professionals in employers and training providers work in tandem with the apprentice experience at the heart of everything they do.”

This quote sums up our ethos at Paragon Skills and our pledge ‘To deliver an outstanding teaching and learning experience to every learner, every time.’ This is something Paragon Skills strives to deliver with everything we do on every standard we deliver across all our sectors.

Chief Executive of Paragon Skills, Mark Botha said of the win:

“Winning the Apprenticeship Provider of the Year 2023 at the FE Week & AELP AAC Apprenticeship Awards is simply fantastic and such an incredible endorsement of all the hard work our Paragon Skills’ colleagues, learners, and employer partners have put into apprenticeships in the past year. We are incredibly proud of all the amazing and inspiring work being done through apprenticeships by everyone involved.

These annual awards inspire excellence, and they give everyone the opportunity to take stock and be recognised for the positive impact we all make on people’s lives, and as such we are over the moon to have received this fantastic recognition.”

Without the effort each and every one of our colleagues and employer partners put in every day we would not be receiving such a prestigious award. At Paragon Skills, we are committed to continual improvement and professional development; this recognition is a testament to our high standards and ethos of providing a quality service to our learners and employer partners, and motivates everyone at Paragon Skills to continue to provide this high standard to all of our learners.

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