Author: Fraser Whieldon

Watch the WorldSkills 2019 medal ceremony live here from 5pm (UK time) today, and see Russian president Vladimir Putin address the crowds of supporters and competitors. It will also be broadcast on SKY 192 and Freesat 161, but you can also catch the action via FE Week’s Twitter account and website. FE Week is proud […]

Skills for Care is to scrap their adult care external quality assurance service (ACEQUAS) to apprenticeship end-point assessment organisations, FE Week understands. This morning Skills for Care emailed all their partners to say they will cease to deliver their £40 per apprentice EQA service in early September. The email in full: “The Skills for Care […]

The Department for Education’s latest recruitment drive for the office of the FE Commissioner has led to the appointment of a new deputy and two advisers but several posts remain unfilled. Martin Sim joins five other £700 per day deputy education commissioners. Sims was formerly Salford City College principal between 2010 and 2015. Since then […]

Team UK is finishing WorldSkills 2019 with thunderous applause and deafening cheers from a caravan of supporters. A crowd of fellow competitors, team leaders, family members, friends and WorldSkills leaders cheered and clapped as each of the 35 competitors finished today. Competitor @worldskillsuk Mark Scott finishes in the wall and floor tiling competition @WorldSkills @WorldSkillsKZN […]

Team UK’s plumbing and heating competitor Thomas Thomas has this afternoon finished his tests. Hear from plumber Thomas Thomas @WorldSkillsKZN – seconds after finishing his competition @WorldSkills @WorldSkillsKZN #TeamUK pipes up! pic.twitter.com/vkn8wJhqG3 — FE Week (@FEWeek) August 25, 2019 The Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor learner had to finish constructing a toilet room and a speed test. He […]

FE Week reporter Fraser Whieldon samples the high life by taking part in the restaurant service competition at WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan. For someone whose idea of fine dining is eating pasta at the kitchen table, rather than in bed in front of the telly, I was a little sceptical of it and wondered whether […]

Young people in the UK feel their school or college are the worst in the world at preparing them for adult working life, a new report has revealed. A new report by the OECD called ‘Youth Voice for the Future of Work’, released to coincide with WorldSkills 2019 competition in Kazan, surveyed 842 18-24 year-olds […]

Team UK has made a good start on the road to medal success, after completing the first day of the four-day WorldSkills 2019 competition in Kazan. Speaking to FE Week, hairdresser Phoebe McLavy said the day went “really, really well”. “I am really pleased with the tests I have done, so I am feeling very […]

Team UK has been flying the flag at the dazzling opening ceremony for WorldSkills Kazan 2019. Team UK joined a parade of national teams at the opening of tonight’s ceremony, and were cheered on by family, friends and team experts. TEAM UK IS HERE!!! pic.twitter.com/P0dqyvmKIk — FE Week (@FEWeek) August 22, 2019 More than 50,000 […]