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 partnership with NCFE and Autodesk
Audience: For educators and leaders in the engineering and digital design sector.
Topics covered:
Insights from training managers and industry leaders
Discussion on current and future standards in the sector, with input from industry and education.
Opportunity to attend breakout sessions by skill area for further discussion and practical skill development:
Learning from ex-competitors
Build a practical resource bank
Further details provided in the attached promotional flyer which includes a QR code.
Date: 15 January 2025
Time: 09:30 – 16:00
Venue: In-person – Autodesk Technology Centre Small Heath Business Park Talbot Way Birmingham B10 0HJ
Lunch and refreshments provided
Join us in-person at the WorldSkills UK Northern Ireland Event, open to all Northern Ireland colleges and focusing on the key priority areas for Advanced Manufacturing and Digital, but open to all educators who want to develop their learners on a journey from Competence to Excellence in the face of change and volatility.
Dates: 30-31 January 2025
Employers often cite the scarcity of qualified candidates for work or projects and reiterate the need for more expert people qualified at ‘Expert Level’. Irrespective of whether they work in digital, construction, healthcare, heritage or other sectors, employers value people who are competent to work efficiently, to a high-quality standard, on different projects, and in different teams, developing new solutions to customer requests within an allocated time.
WorldSkills UK competitors who have been successful nationally and internationally, when asked what makes them successful, often say that beyond the grasp of essential techniques and tools, the key element is having the time and space to practice and hone their craft, and the opportunity to learn from experienced specialist expert tutors and others, over an extended period of time, as this lays the foundations of expertise. Research shows that the earlier the age that people can develop their mastery the better.
It is crucial that we champion skills development from an early age, as our future economy is dependent on us developing the next generation of experts. Join us as we share approaches and effective practice and discuss opportunities and the support available for you to lay the foundations for skills excellence.
Date: 31 January 2025
Time: 10:30 – 12:00
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 – 4 February 2025 – Online
11:00-12:00 – 25 March 2025 – Online
11:00-12:00 – 23 April 2025 – Online
11:00-12:00 – 3 June 2025 – Online
In collaboration with Didactic Services Ltd.
The final of three sessions, that will focus on the assessment of Industry 4.0 as part of the curriculum. We will discuss various marking systems and assessment criteria to help educators evaluate students’ proficiency in Industry 4.0 technologies effectively.
Date: 5 February 2025
Venue: Greater Birmingham and Solihull Institute of Technology (GBS IoT) Holt St Birmingham B4 7ER
The aspiration to mastery of a craft or skill comes from the pride in achieving a job not just well done but done to the best possible standards. Developing a passion and love of your craft and nurturing effective relationships and a partnership approach for achieving goals and building pathways to excellence is necessary. The important role that employers and further and higher education providers play working in collaboration, help to foster talent through skills development.
‘Just good enough will never be good enough for individuals or employers.’
Join us as we explore and highlight effective practice in building pathways to excellence, contributing to the UK’s skills ecosystem, by providing opportunities for growth and sustainable economic development.
Date: 14 February 2025
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Educators in various fields face difficulties keeping up with changing technical skills and meeting industry needs. Likewise, industries struggle to find skilled workers for immediate roles. Bringing educators and industry experts together offers a chance to anticipate skill changes and prepare a workforce for the future. Internationally, collaboration can help address the ever-changing landscape of skill development.
Please review our Digital Charter before signing-up, which can be found at: Digital Charter – Communities of Practice
Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
Time: 16:15-17:45
Venue: Online
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
Educators in Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing face challenges keeping up with technical skills, meeting industry needs and building pathway awareness. All of this compounded by the need for the skilled technical workforce at all levels.
Bringing educators and industry experts together offers a chance to anticipate skill changes and prepare a workforce for the future. Internationally, collaboration can help address the ever-changing landscape of skill development.
Please review our Advanced Manufacturing Charter before signing-up, which can be found at: Advanced Manufacturing Charter – Communities of Practice
Date: 19 March 2025
Time: 16:15 PM
Venue: 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
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.
