A beauty therapy student from Truro College is battling it out to represent the UK at an international competition to promote vocational learning.
Ben Rose, of Camborne, is participating in the selection event for the 2007 WorldSkills Competition which is taking place in Coventry and Warwickshire this week.
If successful Ben will go on to represent the UK at the WorldSkills Competition in Shizuoka, Japan in November.
The WorldSkills is the largest skills competition in the world. Every two years hundreds of skilled young people gather together from around the world to test themselves against demanding international standards. They represent the best of their peers drawn from regional and national skill competitions held in over 45 countries.
Ben has studied NVQ Level 2 and 3 in beauty therapy at Truro College and won gold in the UK skills regional competition last May. He then went on to the national finals in September where he came top in his age group.
Ben is taking part in a gruelling 18 hours of competition, performing various beauty therapy treatments over three days.
Ben said: "As the first male student to study beauty therapy at Truro College and as far as I know the first to compete in the Skills Challenge I'm really excited about the possibility of going to the WorldSkills competition in Japan."
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