Benefits
Skills competition activities can benefit everyone – learners, tutors, providers and employers – by raising standards, improving outcomes and enhancing engagement
- Improves personal, technical and employability skills
- More likely to complete their courses and achieve qualification goals
- Has a positive effect on their ambition and aspirations for their future career
- Inspires them to complete higher-level training
- Supports the move from competence to excellence
- Provides evidence for inspections
- Delivering skills that underpin economic competitiveness
- National and international benchmarking and experience
- Greater scope for creativity in teaching, training and learning techniques
- Opportunities to benchmark and learn from others
- Great for continuing professional development – extending pedagogical skills and knowledge
- Personal recognition and development – opportunities to become competition judges, coaches and experts
