Register to attend our WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence workforce development: World Class Teacher Training including Technical Masterclasses, Network for Innovation, and our Communities, at no charge.
In our ever-evolving technical education landscape there is a need to raise the status of technical learning and grow alternative routes to highly skilled employment. Technical education reforms have enabled progress, and there is an increasing awareness of the importance of technical, work-based approaches to education and training vital to growth and economic prosperity.
In this session, we will explore effective practice and resources that will help you to bring the highest expectations and standards in technical learning through a process of applied practice, linked to innovative assessment and competition pedagogy. We will explore how to develop individuals’ precision, better quality, and more demanding levels of performance, all under pressure, to support short- and longer-term social mobility.
Date: 7 March 2025
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Delivered by Centre of Excellence partners – Symetri
This 2-day Fusion Essentials for Manufacturing course is a for users who wish to learn to use Fusion as a CAD and CAM application. This course is fundamental for new and transitioning Fusion users. It is packed with manufacturing terminology and examples which are linked to industry examples. It will provide an in-depth use of CAD for Manufacturing, including a model for manufacturing which can be a significant process for manufacturing parts. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive CPD, you will learn the key skills and knowledge required to design models using Autodesk Fusion specifically for manufacturing.
On completion of the training, you will receive an Autodesk certificate.
Dates:
10 March 2025
Time: 9:30 – 16:30
Location: In-person at University College Birmingham
27 March 2025
Time: 9:30 – 16:30
Location: Online
In order to take part, you will also need to register your institution with Autodesk here. Once registered you will be provided with instructions to download the required software at no charge.
Spaces are limited, so early registration is advised.
WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence in partnership with NCFE, and in collaboration with Innovate UK, and the Satellite Application Catapult – an elite technology and innovation company based at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, are pleased to invite you to join us for our Technical Leadership Professional Exchange on the 13 March 2025.
The Satellite Applications Catapult, based at Harwell Campus, is one of nine UK Catapults driving innovation and national growth. It focuses on integrating space data, technology, and services into diverse sectors—including healthcare, agriculture, finance, and security—helping solve global challenges and enhance everyday life. To harness the full potential of ubiquitous data, we must understand the digital landscape and its role in UK growth.
This exchange brings industry and education experts together to explore the impact of big data, evolving technologies, and skills development. Through collaboration, we’ll identify challenges, opportunities, and innovative solutions to drive economic sustainability and skills excellence.
Join us for a valuable CPD programme offering insights, ideas, and resources to raise standards, champion future skills, and break down barriers to opportunity.
Date: 13 March 2025
Time: 09:30-16:30
Venue: Satellite Applications Catapult, Harwell Campus, Oxford
AI Best Practice for Educators provides an introduction to building core skills in our learners for a disrupted future, highlighting what we do best as Technical Educators. This session is best for Senior Leads, Quality Leads and Educators and covers the AI technology landscape, the challenges presented, policy compliance and data management against the ICO and JCQ, and how to implement practices for future skill embedment.
Session Registration links:
11:00-12:00 – 25 March 2025 – Online
11:00-12:00 – 29 April 2025 – Online
11:00-12:00 – 3 June 2025 – Online
There is a recognised need for diversification of assessment methods that offer greater validity, authenticity, and inclusivity for learners. Too often the notion of excellence in assessment focusses on recall, repetition and the final grade.
Assessment and feedback methodologies including AI-powered formative assessment tools providing real time feedback, and crowd sourcing models, have enabled evolution from simple measures of recall to an active learning process governed by learners’ judgement, growth and agency. The focus is fully on learning, and investing in learners, to ensure best outcomes for all, while addressing long-standing challenges.
Join us as we challenge concepts of excellence in assessment, and explore innovation within assessment, that’s having a positive impact on UK further and higher education learners.
Date: 28 March 2025
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
When the future for technical skills for our learners maybe a ‘disrupted’ future, this session focuses on what it means to create a Future Skills Mindset. It will look at how to develop practices in our curriculum delivery for skill development impact, in a future where the industry changes are unknown, and where some roles do not yet exist. It will also include how educators can create curriculum impact with toolkits for beyond the session and straight into impactful learner change.
Session Registration links:
12:00-13:00 – 31 March 2025 – Online
12:00-13:00 – 6 May 2025 – Online
12:00-13:00 – 10 June 2025 – Online
Delivered by Centre of Excellence partners – Symetri
This 2-day Fusion Essentials for CAD Users course provides you with an understanding of the parametric design philosophy using Autodesk Fusion. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive session, you will learn the key skills and knowledge required to design models using Autodesk Fusion.
As a result of attending this training course, you will be able to create and edit sketches allowing you to create key features and quickly modify and update your design. You will understand the basic parametric modelling procedures, build assemblies with motion, document and animate your design all within Autodesk Fusion. After completing the course, you will receive an Autodesk certificate of completion.
Date: 2 April 2025
Time: 09:30 – 16:30
Location: In-person at Symetri, Wakefield
Date: 16 April 2025
Time: 09:30 – 16:30
Location: Online
In order to take part, you will also need to register your institution with Autodesk here. Once registered you will be provided with instructions to download the required software at no charge.
Spaces are limited, so early registration is advised.
Prioritising equity, diversity and inclusion is crucial to fostering an environment conducive to culturing skills excellence. Creating an inclusive culture within further and higher technical and vocational education is essential for learners and educators to thrive. It’s about celebrating diversity and leveraging the impact of difference so that every individual can excel.
Pursuit of excellence demands equitable access to high-quality technical and vocational routes, made possible through effective partnership working between employers and learning providers, and with the support of WorldSkills UK, and wider stakeholders. Stakeholders who recognise the importance of bringing education and industry closer together to facilitate inclusive co-curriculum design, planning and delivery that supports improvement of learners academic and technical performances, and develops important interpersonal skills that will help them address the varied demands of the workplace.
Join us as we explore approaches to effective partnership working, and personal and professional practice development, that will help to improve diversity and inclusion at all levels, with far reaching benefits
Date: 25 April 2025
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Economic growth coupled with labour market transformation, driven by new technologies and industry 4.0, is causing large-scale disruption and transition. There is a demand for a skilled workforce to contribute to the innovation ecosystem by participating in the global value chain, focussing on infrastructure, and nurturing an efficient skills system that matches demand with the supply of relevant skills sets for domestic and global markets.
UK further and higher education training providers have a vital role to play in meeting current and future skills needs, prioritising social mobility by breaking down barriers to opportunity through skills excellence.
WorldSkills UK is committed to supporting widening opportunities for all, through technical education and skills, enabling individuals to take their best next steps, and businesses and communities to thrive. Join us as we explore effective practice, resources, and opportunities for building together a skilled, empowered, and future-ready workforce
Date: 23 May 2025
This session was facilitated on the 29 November 2024, 10-11.30am, but the recording is available, so that session and can viewed at any time on our YouTube channel.
