B. Listening: The Skills Special with WorldSkills UK

Podcast episodes
1 minute read 5 Feb 2025
To celebrate National Apprenticeships Week, we are joined on the podcast by Daisy Seepersad, Careers Lead at WorldSkills UK and Ruben Duggan, Skills Champion, former apprentice, and medallist at The WorldSkills competition in Lyon. 

WorldSkills UK is a partnership between education, industry and UK governments, working to help the UK become a ​‘skills economy’, boosting the prestige of technical and professional education by embedding world-class training standards across the UK to champion future skills, help drive investment, jobs and economic growth.

WorldSkills UK is a proud member of WorldSkills, a global movement of over 80 countries. WorldSkills supports young people across the world via careers advocacy, competitions-based training, assessment and benchmarking, with members’ national teams ultimately testing their ability to achieve world-class standards in the biennial ​‘skills olympics’. 

Ruben and Daisy talk about the biggest misconceptions of apprenticeships and technical education and how WorldSkills UK challenges those perceptions, including their international WorldSkills event attracting over 140,000 visitors, and the opportunities Ruben has found through an apprenticeship.

“We see excellence in apprenticeships and technical education in the work that we do, and we want other people to see that as well those pathways are just as valuable, just as amazing, open up so many opportunities, just as much as other pathways”.

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