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2 WWW.SMARTASSESSOR.CO.UK THE SKILLS SHOW 2016 Nick Linford Head designer: Nicky Phillips Designer: Matthew Willsone Features editor: Cath Murray Deputy editor: Paul Offord I Sub editor: Tom Mendelsohn but the journey to EuroSkills 2016 has been more Reporters: Alix Robertson than a year in the making for Team UK. t may have only taken a one and a half hour flight to get from London Heathrow to Gothenburg, Billy Camden It started with them competing against more Jude Burke Sam King Ellis O Brien Financials: Helen Neilly Sales manager: Vikrant Bassi Sales executive: Bridget Stockdale Administration: Frances Ogefere Dell PA to managing director: Victoria Boyle Photographer: than 3,000 other top apprentices and learners in @billycamden the country through regional heats in early 2015. billy.camden@feweek.co.uk W itxx PROUD TO BE THE OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER WORLDSKILLS UK Highest scoring compewtitors from those were then whittled down to around 500 who appeared at the national finals at The Skills Show in Birmingham s NEC last November. Standout competitors in those national finals Ellis O Brien were then put into a longer squad of just 85 Managing director: Shane Mann IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A special thank you to the Worldskills UK team. competitors for WorldSkills, with 22 of them being chosen to represent their country at EuroSkills. psychological training to deal with the mental intensive training programme, supported by their after giving up his social life for two years to strains of competing on the international stage. trainers, employers and training providers. prepare for the competitions. But that was where the real hard work started. situations in which they felt uncomfortable to said he has had to dedicate his evenings and boost their ability to handle the kind of pressure into how much these young people have to go weekends to constantly prepare, but it was all that they would experience at EuroSkills. through and the sacrifices they make to be known worth it when he got selected for Team UK. In March I visited Chichester s Pulborough Campus to watch 14 carpentry, joinery and cabinet making champion hopefuls complete a training week. I spoke with cabinet maker Angus BruceGardner, who would go on to be selected as part of Team UK for EuroSkills. He has since told me of his hopes that his tireless It is great to see young people doing so well, representing the UK and showcasing their skills to a mix of judges and other talented young people from all over Europe. To be the best, you have to utilise the best tools. Learn more about how we can help you with your apprentices on our website. I didn t think I was going to get in because the After a few more weeks of honing their skills and getting in the zone, the day finally arrived when competition was so tough but when I was told I was they would all head to central London to make the very excited, Angus said. final step to Gothenburg. The process has been really hard and at such a But before they could get down to competing, high level so far. I haven t really had a social life for a send-off event was held in parliament on the last couple of years because I ve just been on it November 28th where they were bid farewell by the whole time and focussed on being successful. family and given messages of good luck from Then in October I was witness to the other side of the team s training, as they were put through government officials. The highlight came from apprenticeships and NEXT STOP, ABU DHABI W hen the curtain closes on EuroSkills, all eyes will turn to Abu Dhabi where WorldSkills is being held next October. As an apprentice herself, Fiona, founder of Smart Assessor and CEO would like to congratulate the competitors of this Euro Skills 2016. They visited Loughborough University to take part in various sessions, involving Yoga and Waters and Acland and trains at Chichester, as the best of what they do. Smart Assessor are delighted to have sponsored the Euro Skills 2016 FE Week supplement, it is an honour to be associated with such a remarkable celebration of UK skills. The 21-year-old, who is an apprentice with sessions throughout the year, giving me an insight I was lucky enough to attend a couple of training CONGRATULATIONS FROM SMART ASSESSOR Team UK at the airport work will pay off with a gold medal in Gothenburg Since then Team UK has taken part in an REPORTING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH www.smartassessor.com 3 ON ROUTE TO GOTHENBURG XX Editor: Photographer: The team of 22 from the Euros will be plunged After the final team selection in March there will be intense training and support for our competitors until October. Abu Dhabi is an exciting prospect because back into the longer squad of 85 competitors who obviously it will be a different culture, a different are all vying for a place at the global competition, climate. dubbed as the Olympics of skills. it s an average of around 12C for the month). But the heat is not going to be a problem for any competitors from colder countries, according to Simon Bartley, president of WorldSkills International. I ve visited the venue in the middle of It will be the first time that a Middle Eastern summer, winter, spring and autumn and I can country will have hosted WorldSkills, although tell you that the centre where the competition of WorldSkills UK will make their way to Abu Dhabi itself is no stranger to skills is being held is fully air conditioned, he told FE Loughborough in February 2017 for an competitions. Week. Experts, team leaders and the bosses assessment weekend where they will carefully The 44th WorldSkills will be held in the Adnec It will be perfectly fit for running a consider who in each skill is worthy of a place on (Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre) a competition and the hotels in which the Team UK. venue that has hosted both the Emirates skills competitors are staying are within 100 or 200 competition and the Gulf Cooperation Council metres of the venue, they ll only be outside in the regional skills competition. morning and evening when it is not as hot so I A choices event is then held in March, which resembles a mini Skills Show, where the final team for WorldSkills Abu Dhabi will be announced. Preparations for Abu Dhabi are going really well, said Neil Bentley, chief executive of WorldSkills UK. It is one of the largest exhibition centres in the Middle East at 133,000 sq m, or the size of around don t think heat is going to be an issue, it is not like playing football in Qatar. 20 football pitches. The event will take place on October 14 to 19, 2017, when temperatures can hit 43C (in England
4 5 Opening ceremony While the ending could have been mistaken for a Eurovision song concert, there was no doubting the serious message the Swedish Prime Minister drove home to the EuroSkills 2016 competitors at the opening ceremony. The glitzy event started with each of the 28 competing nations taking to the stage in typical Olympic flagbearing style as thousands gathered inside the Scandinavium Arena. The energy was electric as we was taken through Swedish hit music history by the Sweden Symphony Orchestra featuring renditions of the final countdown and dancing queen. But a powerful speech by Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on the importance of each and every competitor at EuroSkills stole the show. I want to congratulate all of you here today, he said. You have the pride, you have become the best in your country at your profession and in many cases the best in the world. As well as your countries and home town you also represent the future. Your hands will create the furniture of the future, the design of the future, the communication of the future. Your pride will digitalise society, build houses and lay the floors that our children and grandchildren will walk on. Your dreams will become the reality of the future. So treasure them, take pride in them, and never hesitate to make those dreams a reality. Prime Minister Lofven, who walked on stage in a welding suit, added: I am also inspired by your teachers. They must have been doing something very well to get you where you are today. Please do not forget them because role models like them are the most important ingredients that we have in our lives. By you being here today it shows you are becoming such role models yourselves. You are so needed. You are so needed in a world in which the pace of change is constantly increasing. We need the people who are constantly striving to be the best and most skilled in their profession. My message to you all here today is; the world needs your pride, we need your hands, your drives, your dreams and we need you, as role models of the future. The ceremony, which started at around 6.30pm and closed at around 8pm, took place at the venue that played host to the competitions. As well as the Prime Minister s appearance, the ceremony included a speech from the president of WorldSkills Europe, Hubert Romer, competitor and expert oaths, followed by what could only be described as a Eurovision style concert. In the coming days almost 500 competitors will compete in 44 skills, said Mr Romer. During the next three days you will work, you will give all you can give. Meanwhile, thousands of students will watch and admire you. You are real heroes for us Neil Bentley and and for them, Carol Stott TEAM UK SKILL EXPERTS SUPPORTING 22 COMPETITORS They may get all the fame and glory from competing at EuroSkills, but every Team UK competitor will tell you they couldn t have achieved success without the unyielding support of their skill experts. Twenty one training managers have become family to the competitors over the past year as they dedicated thousands of hours preparing them for Gothenburg. They gave up their spare time, their weekends, to not only get competitors skills up to the international standard, but also be there for them when times got tough. I just love it intrinsically, said Michael Godfrey, the cooking expert who has been involved with WorldSkills UK for eight years. The reward is a weird one, I think with the competitors coming from being not the best cooks you ve ever seen in your life to a couple of years down the line being incredible craftsmen and masters of what they do, and they go on to achieve incredible things, that is exceptional. Being a skills expert is a full-time but unpaid job. They fulfil the role in their spare time after their day job has ended. Barry Skea, the expert in mechanical engineering CAD from New Lanarkshire, has been involved with Team UK since 2008. He told FE Week: I give up a lot of my free time to do this. I sometimes see the competitors more than I see my family, which I get a little bit of a hard time for but that is one of the things that comes with it. WorldSkills is not just something I am very passionate about, it has become a hobby so I find myself choosing to disregard other things. This year, Mr Skea is training Betsy Crosbie, the only female competitor in the mechanical engineering CAD competition. After seeing her walk onto the competition floor for the first time, Mr Skea said: Seeing Betsy enter the competition area full of confidence is amazing. A few months ago she would have found it much more difficult to find that confidence to go in there with her being the only female in an otherwise all male competition is massive for her. That type of thing is why I stay involved. Andrew Pengelly is the expert in joinery and has been involved with the competitions since 2013. He said the role is like an incurable disease that you never want to get rid of. It t is great to see the competitors working at such a high level just like the Olympic games where people get the chance to represent their country and it is just a great opportunity to see young people do the same thing but on the vocational side. I think if anyone said watching them walk out on stage to compete didn t bring a lump to their throat then they are lying. Team UK are also supported by three team leaders who support and care for the competitors. xx They can be found roaming around the competition space making sure everything is going smoothly and cheering the team on. xx
6 7 Closing Ceremony Results Inclusive skills competitions were brought into the mainstream at the Skills Show for the first time this year with the aim of changing the perceptions that some employers have of people with a learning difficulty or disability. The competitions were trialled at the show last year but this time around were launched in five different skill areas as an integral part of WorldSkills UK. Regional heats were held across the country over the course of 2016, with the top-scoring competitors bagging their place at the show last week. There were five skill areas carpentry, catering, ICT, health and social care, and media in which 33 students with physical or learning difficulties competed on Saturday. The results table is below. Watching the inclusive were first developed through a competitions was truly partnership between Derwen year. national competitions are good for inspirational, said Neil, a specialist college, Louise Keevil, the mainstream young people, apply to Bentley, the chief executive of WorldSkills UK. We want to continue and North Warwickshire and Hinckley, with support from Natspec, which bills itself inclusive skills manager at both Derwen and Natspec, said: Everybody everybody, including people with a learning COMPETITION FORENAME SURNAME ORGANISATION/COLLEGE MEDAL X X X X X to expand this activity to as the voice of specialist that is in learning ensure more young people further education. should have the have the opportunity to take Working on behalf of Natspec, opportunity part and benefit from this learning Derwen took a lead role in to be the best and development process. developing the competitions that that they can Inclusive skills competitions would be held at the Skills Show this be. All of those reasons why xxxxx All data provided by WorldSkills UK
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10 11 MEET THE TEAM UK COMPETITORS Around 200 of the UK s top vocational learners were rewarded with gold, silver Wales which emerged as the big winners of the night, with the two countries claiming the top three LANDSCAPE GARDENING WILL BURBERRY, 18 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CAD BETSY CROSBIE, 20 and bronze medals at the closing places on the official medal table. Employer: Gardenscapes Employer: N/A ceremony of the Skills Show on New Lanarkshire took the Provider: Merrist Wood Provider: New November 19. top spot with 32 points, bagging the Lanarkshire Medals were awarded to the best most medals with an impressive haul Trainer: Colin McKnight, Trainer: Barry Skea, entrants in 61 different skill areas, of four gold, two silver, four bronze CAFRE New Lanarkshire with a further 29 young people highly and two highly commended. commended for their efforts. City of Glasgow, which It was colleges from Scotland and was best overall in 2015, came second, MEET THE TEAM ra am et ra am et ARCHITECTURAL STONEMASONRY CABINET MAKING CNC MILLING LANDSCAPE GARDENING TOBY BROOK, 20 ANGUS BRUCE-GARDNER, 21 ETHAN DAVIES, 21 ADAM FERGUSON, 20 Employer: Wells Cathedral Employer: Waters and Acland Employer: Electroimpact UK Employer: Grassmaster NI Stonemasons Provider: Waters and Acland Provider: Coleg Cambria Provider: CAFRE Provider: Bath Trainer: Christian Notley, Trainer: Wyn Rowlands Trainer: Colin McKnight, Trainer: Kevin Calpin, Chichester. CAFRE Calpin Associates iducips untotat empore magni vellaccum volorerem. ra am et ra am et ra am et At ra am et
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14 15 PLUMBING AND HEATING 3D GAME DESIGN (DEMONSTRATION SKILL) WELDING MECHATRONICS DANIEL MARTINS, 19 DANIEL MCCABE, 20 JOSH PEEK, 20 TOM REVELL, 24 Employer: Apprentice with Employer: West Employer: L&G Skilled Employer: Toyota Briggs and Forrester. Cheshire Engineering Manufacturing UK Provider: EAS Mechanical Provider: N/A Provider: Great Yarmouth Provider: Toyota Trainer: Paul Dodds, Skills, Trainer: Mike Spence, South. Manufacturing UK Educational Training (SET) Thames Trainer: Clive Bell, Lakes Trainer: David Russell, Ltd.. Northern Regional repe noste qui cum aut voluptat everum esequi quas r o. Ihillan deriorepudi ut maximint. Ratet ut istiur Ratet ut istiur Ratet ut istiur Ratet ut istiur BEAUTY THERAPY PLASTERING AND DRYWALL FLORISTRY JOINERY ISLA MCLARTY, 19 HARRISON MOY, 20 DANIELLE SCANDONE, 21 CONOR WILLMOTT, 21 Employer: Experience Health Employer: British Gypsum Employer: Moonflower. Employer: Precision and Beauty Provider: H&R Property Provider: Merrist Wood carpentry and joinery Provider: City of Glasgow Development Provider: West Suffolk Trainer: David Kehoe, British Trainer: Laura Owen,. Trainer: Jenna Bailey, Ashton Gypsum Self-employed Trainer: Andrew Pengelly, Community Science. Didac Ltd.
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