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WorldSkills 2017: Team UK strikes gold in Abu Dhabi

Team UK has retained its top-10 position at WorldSkills this year, after our competitors bagged one gold, three silvers, three bronzes, and 13 medallions of excellence in Abu Dhabi. Download out free souvenir supplement covering the journey undertaken by TeamUK for WorldSkills 2017. Click here. Our competitors will be going home with their heads held […]

Worldskills 2017: Watch the closing ceremony live from Abu Dhabi

Today marks the end of the 44th WorldSkills competition – in which representatives from 59 nations have competed in an incredible range of disciplines from hairdressing to stonemasonry and aircraft maintenance to robotics. The competition is hosted in Abu Dhabi and featured 1,300 competitors, watched by, among others, members of the UAE’s royal family and […]

WorldSkills 2017: Spectacular opening ceremony marks the start of competitions

The best of British took centre stage with the world watching tonight as Abu Dhabi put on a spectacular opening ceremony to officially open the 44th WorldSkills. Around 10,000 people packed inside the du Arena on Yas Island for this year’s competition opener, which was live streamed around the globe and featured authentic Arabic dance […]

How World Youth Skills Day can help with social mobility

Inequality is a major problem for many 18- to 24-year-olds, but Neil Bentley believes WorldSkills UK can play a part in helping the disadvantaged move up in society “Young people losing hope over life chances,” was the damning conclusion of the recent Social Mobility Barometer, which looked at public attitudes to social mobility in the […]

Team UK selected for WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi

Apprentices from Toyota, Airbus and Topshop are among 32 of the country’s elite learners who have been selected to represent the UK and go for gold at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi later this year. The team [see below] will fly to the Middle East in October to compete against young people from 76 countries, in more […]

Enter more female apprentices for skills competitions – it’s worth it!

Women have a raw deal when it comes to apprenticeships, but here are some steps we can all take to improve the situation, says Neil Bentley I was struck by a recent report from the Young Women’s Trust highlighting just how grave the situation is for women looking to take up an apprenticeship. The report […]

FE holds the key to 2017’s global skills challenges

Building a world-class skills training system is entirely within our grasp if it is properly supported and prioritised, says Carole Stott. To say that 2016 was an eventful year is an understatement. There can scarcely be a person whose life will not be touched in some way by its momentous events. There is little that […]

Team UK prepares for EuroSkills with yoga, meditation and stress tests

Dozens of the nation’s most talented FE students found their zen as they prepared for the psychological strains of competing on the international stage, at a special training session attended by FE Week ahead of EuroSkills 2016. The 85-strong Team UK squad visited Loughborough University last weekend to take part in sessions, one of which […]

Go for it Team UK! Our competitors for WorldSkills Brazil are announced

[slideshow_deploy id=’35870′] These are the 41 UK youngsters upon whose shoulders the hopes of a nation will rest at WorldSkills 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil, in less than two months. They were put through a gruelling four days of head-head competitions at a special selection event at Central College Nottingham and Burton and South Derbyshire […]