Abbie set on career path; HND: New public services course offers a way into ambulance service, via university.(News)

From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) | Date: August 2, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: By Staff Reporter

A STUDENT who was in the first group to take a new course at Warwickshire College is off to start a degree in the autumn.

Abbie Arnull, aged 21, started off by taking a two-year BTEC national certificate in public services at the college's Rugby Centre. She then went on to join the first HND in public services group for another two years, ...

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