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I’m an engineer, by training at least. Although I get to spend most of my time working in other subject areas (which is also great, by the way), I always love the chance to return to looking at engineering because I feel like I’ve come back home.
International Women’s Day celebrates the growth in women’s freedom following the 19th century: for example, voting and acceptance into the workplace. It remains important to this day as, even now, women around the world continue to experience oppression and mistreatment.
International Women’s Day reminds people of a previous time in which gender inequality was at its worst, causing women to suffer greatly.
The tagline often thrown around when talking about Apprenticeships is ‘earn while you learn’. Before I started my apprenticeship, I didn’t trust it one bit. I believed an Apprenticeship was hard work for low pay, popping into college every now and again to go to classes and doing tedious assignments.
But as I start my second week in my Business Administration and Marketing Apprenticeship, I am pleased to report that I have never been happier to be wrong.
I have always been a high achiever when it comes to academics. I flew through my GCSEs, studied hard and achieved an A and two Bs at A Level, the grades needed to get me into my chosen university.
But when September came around, I’d had a change of heart.
Now that I am at Northampton College I have been reflecting on a more challenging time in my life – the time I moved to a new school.
I chose to move as I had a goal and wanted to achieve it, but the first day was one of the worst of my life. I had no friends, a strong accent when I spoke English and I wasn't really sure what I was doing.