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We’ve helped to inspire and develop more young people than ever before

7 September 2020

Our Annual Review for 2019-2020 shows that we helped to inspire and develop excellence in 205,000 young people, more than ever before.

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Meet our Centre of Excellence High-Performance Skills Coaches!

We’re pleased to announce four High-Performance Skills Coaches who will be leading the work of the WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence, in partnership with NCFE.

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Technical and vocational careers pathways post-GCSE

Head of National Competitions and Careers Dee Aylett-Smith explains how our careers resources and training programmes can help to inspire and develop young people.

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Taking the next steps after your BTEC results

Just received your BTEC results? Our National Competitions team explain what options you can take next to help improve your employability skills.

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Supporting young people on BTEC and A-level results day

On BTEC and A-level results day, our Deputy Chief Executive Ben Blackledge congratulates young people collecting results and explains how we're supporting them making choices.

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Higher skills standards will help deliver what the Chancellor wants

Economic consequences of Covid-19 make it more important than ever to support young people better prepare for work and enable employers to improve their productivity.

Cast your vote for the Women In Meat Awards

Voting is open for Women In Meat Industry Awards, finalists including Katy Godsell, WorldSkills UK Butchery Competition organiser and Codie-Jo Carr, 2019 Butchery Competition Finalist.

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My apprenticeship journey at WorldSkills UK

Hannah Payne, our Learning and Development Co-ordinator, recently completed her Level 3 Business Administration apprenticeship at WorldSkills UK.

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Our response to the College of the Future vision statement

Our Chief Executive, Dr Neil Bentley-Gockmann OBE, responds to the the Independent Commission on the College of the Future’s vision statement published today.

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Guest blog: Students maintain WorldSkills UK training regime during lockdown

Lockdown has not stopped students from North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College (NWSLC) from keeping up with their training as part of Squad UK.

Update on WorldSkills UK COVID-19 action plan

In April, we launched our five-point action plan in response to COVID-19, setting out how we would continue to support young people.

WorldSkills UK monitoring coronavirus developments

WorldSkills UK continue to monitor the governments advice regarding coronavirus and together with our partners are reviewing the impact on our planned activities.

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