The programme offers senior leaders the opportunity to connect with their peers across the UK, representatives from industry and WorldSkills UK’s international partners to collaborate and share best practice to drive innovation and excellence.
As part of the Centre of Excellence, the Network for Innovation delivers a rich portfolio of workforce development opportunities. By connecting education, industry, and global expertise, it supports institutions in addressing evolving skills needs and shaping high-impact education strategies. Membership is free for institutions enrolled in the WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence programme.
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Join a series of interactive online forums exploring the latest research and key challenges in technical education. Connect with sector peers, experts, and international partners to share insights, experiences, and practical solutions.
Delivered in partnership with leading education providers, our one-day learning visits offer senior leaders a unique opportunity to explore high-impact teaching and learning in action across the UK.
Hosting institutions showcase how they embed WorldSkills UK practices to raise standards, enhance quality, and create inclusive, world-class learning environments that empower staff and inspire student success.
These exchanges connect members with industry experts, employers, and education leaders to explore how technological change and labour market insights can inform curriculum planning, design and delivery — raising standards, championing future skills, and meeting the needs of our world-class skills economy.
We provided Centre of Excellence members with funding to explore and implement innovative approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment. This includes leveraging international insights, benchmarking, and standardisation to drive quality improvement, raise standards, and foster excellence in further and higher technical education and training.
WorldSkills UK in partnership with NCFE, invite you to apply to undertake a group collaborative innovation project, involving a minimum of three further and higher technical education providers, to address one of the priority themes shared.
The video above features highlights from the WorldSkills UK Technical Leadership Learning Visit at Hull College. This CPD event provided valuable insights for technical leaders across the UK’s Four Nations.
The one-day visit allowed participants to exchange ideas, share resources, and discuss ways to drive innovation and raise standards. Hull College, as a Centre of Excellence member, showcased how WorldSkills UK methodologies help raise standards and develop skills excellence. Their message: Context is a challenge, not an excuse!
“Thank you WorldSkills UK Network for Innovation for organising the Technical Leadership Learning Visit at Oldham College. What an inspiring day, so many things to take away. Looking forward to sharing the best practice with the wider leadership team.”
“Just returned from an inspiring learning visit at Oldham College. The visit provided excellent insight into how Oldham College integrates competition into their curriculum. Incorporating WorldSkills philosophies through CPD and comprehensive staff and student inductions, ensures everyone is aligned with core values and practices promoted by WorldSkills UK . Thanks for giving me a much-needed boost near the end of the academic year. I am eager to plan how we can improve our CPD and embed competition throughout the curriculum!”
It is very clear that WorldSkills UK and the Further and Higher Education community are extremely passionate about advancing education standards. I was impressed by the passion and expertise of everyone who spoke.
Excellent, I look forward to more events like this.
Access the Centre of Excellence FREE CPD training that surfaces and brings to life the very best practice in evidence-based pedagogical practice, teaching, learning and assessment methodology. These online sessions are delivered by our High-Performance Skills Coaches and run regularly through the year.
