Competition-based learning is a proven way to drive curriculum innovation, engage learners of all abilities and align provision with employer needs. Beyond skills development, it delivers wider benefits:
To maximise these benefits, we’ve created the WorldSkills UK Endorsement Framework and standardised competition briefs supporting education and training providers to align classroom, provider-based, or local skills competitions with our National Standards of Excellence. This ensures quality, consistency and credibility, giving learners a world-class experience.
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Gold-standard quality assurance from the UK’s skills experts
Alignment with WorldSkills UK National Standards of Excellence
Access to branding and promotional assets
Supports progression to WorldSkills UK national competition programmes
Recognition by education, industry, and government
New College Swindon launched the South West Skills Challenge, inviting colleges across the South West to raise technical excellence. The number of colleges involved in running the challenge has grown from 10 to 17 this year and spans the length and breadth of the region, with 850 learners taking part in Skills Excellence Week last academic year.
In early 2024, three West Midlands colleges united with a shared ambition: to design and deliver high-quality local skills competitions that would widen participation, raise aspiration, and promote skills development across the region. Our collaboration responded directly to challenges highlighted in the West Midlands Combined Authority and DWP Place-Based Plan. Local skills competitions offered a practical and inspiring way to address these barriers.
Our skills competitions help our learners to see the world through an aspirational lens, facilitating opportunities for learners to tangibly demonstrate success, winning and ultimately an opportunity to feel better about themselves and what they are capable of. We are proud to see the fruition of this process as one of our engineering students is participating in this years National Finals in the Additive Manufacturing competition.
Sequence and embed our benchmarking assessments and tracker into existing teaching frameworks across the academic or training year to assess your learners’ technical skills. Access our resources across an array of skills on our Learning Lab – if you don’t have an account, create a free educator account to login.
