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Mainstreaming Excellence Through Networks

19 January 2021

Our Deputy Chief Executive Ben Blackledge explains how our new Innovation Network will help us to mainstream excellence in skills development across the UK.

Congratulations to all our Award nominees!

11 January 2021

The nominees for this year’s Diversity and Inclusion Heroes Awards, hosted in partnership with Coca-Cola European Partners have been revealed.

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WorldSkills UK provides strong economic return on its activities

Frontier Economics has confirmed we are delivering significant economic return across our work.

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Congratulations to those recognised in the Queen’s New Year honours

30 December 2020

Our former Chair Carole Stott and Sue Husband, the former Official Delegate for WorldSkills have been awarded OBEs in the Queen’s New Year honours list.

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Sharing good practice with China

30 December 2020

Our International Competitions Manager Zoe Cookson explains how we hosted a virtual event with China to share good practice.

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2020: a year of excellence at work

23 December 2020

In 2020 we continued our drive to mainstream excellence in skills systems across the UK.

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WorldSkills UK celebrates Scottish stars

4 December 2020

Yesterday we held a virtual celebration, in partnership with City of Glasgow College, to recognise all those involved in our work in Scotland.

Introducing our Skills Development Hub!

3 December 2020

We’re pleased to launch our new Skills Development Hub to help mainstream excellence in training across the UK.

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Independent research highlights benefits to Scotland of participating in WorldSkills

3 December 2020

It highlights the merits for Scotland in becoming more involved in the WorldSkills movement.

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Autodesk Digital Construction Challenge 2020

2 December 2020

Read how New College Lanarkshire worked together with Autodesk to run a virtual digital construction competition.

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Response to Comprehensive Spending Review

25 November 2020

Read our response to Comprehensive Spending Review here.

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Mindset programmes

25 November 2020

We have for the first time transferred our winning formula to developing excellence in young people in partnership with Grey Matters.

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