Team UK – made up of the nation’s top young apprentices and students – has returned from the EuroSkills Finals in Budapest covered in precious medals and glory.

Among them is a former Catering and Hospitality student from Gower College Swansea.

Two Hospitality students from Gower College Swansea are set to represent Wales at the WorldSkills UK LIVE National Finals.

Paige Jones, who is on the Level 3 Diploma in Food and Beverage Service Supervision course, and Paulina Skoczek, who is studying Level 2 Diploma in Professional Cookery, will take part in the Restaurant Services Finals at Birmingham’s NEC in November.

The UK’s top apprentices and learners will be going for gold at the WorldSkills UK LIVE National Finals on 15-17 November.

Among them will be two Electronic Engineering students from Gower College Swansea - Matthew Belton and Jamie Skyrme.

They will attend the event at the Birmingham NEC and undertake a challenging set of competition tasks including fault finding, electronic design, programming and prototyping.

The finest young skilled students from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have been selected to represent the UK at Europe’s most important and prestigious skills competition, it has been announced.

Among them is Gower College Swansea Hospitality student Collette Gorvett.

Team UK – which heads to the EuroSkills Finals in Budapest from 26 to 28 September – will comprise of 22 elite competitors skilled in a broad spectrum of disciplines from engineering to construction, digital to creative.

An A Level student from Gower College Swansea has taken first place at the Dylan Thomas Prize book review awards.

Two Beauty students from Gower College Swansea have scooped prizes at a prestigious Salon Cymru competition.

Amanda Rees took first place at the Cardiff event, where she was closely followed by Katie Jennings in third place. Both students are currently on the Level 2 Cosmetic Make-up course at the College’s Broadway Centre.

For the competition, they had to demonstrate different techniques of make-up artistry such as highlighting and sculpting.

Two students from Gower College Swansea will represent Wales on the national stage at upcoming electrical and plumbing competitions.

Jay Popham was named the winner of the recent regional heat of the SPARKS UK Electrical Apprentice of the Year Competition which was held at the College’s Jubilee Court campus.

Three AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting students from Gower College Swansea are celebrating after scooping Silver at the Intermediate Accounting SkillsCompetition Wales event at Coleg Sir Gar.

Demi-Lee Clement, Stela Kovacheva and Jasmeet Gaba undertook a range of tasks designed to assess their technical ability and team working potential within a ‘fictional’ accounts department.

Two Catering and Hospitality students from Gower College Swansea have earned places in the Worldskills UK Squad team, which could see them representing their country at the Worldskills World Final in Russia in 2019.

Level 3 student Collette Gorvett was recently ‘Highly Commended’ in the Restaurant Services competition at the Worldskills National Finals at Birmingham’s NEC.

At the end of November, three students studying at the Gorseinon campus of Gower College Swansea participated in the Urdd Regional Swimming Gala.

A Level student Niamh Jones came first in the butterfly race and also achieved her Personal Best. L3 Public Services student Sam Thomas swam in the backstroke and the individual medley race, and A Level student Dominc Waters swam the breaststroke.

Niamh will now take part in the national competition in Cardiff on 21 January 2018. Good luck to her!