The UK climbed back into the top 10 at this year’s WorldSkills 2022 Special Edition, which took place in Salzburg, Austria.
Team UK won a handful of medals across a range of categories, include a bronze in Car Painting, while also excelling in digital skills, cyber security and web technologies.
Dr Neil Bentley-Gockmann, Chief Executive, WorldSkills UK, said, “To climb back into the world’s top 10 is a phenomenal achievement from the young women and men in Team UK. Despite all the difficulties, distractions and cancellations of the past few years, they have shown their true quality and real fortitude to achieve so much.
“Every member of Team UK has demonstrated excellence in their skill. We delivered the best ever performance for the UK in digital skills, positioning fourth in the world, ahead of countries including Singapore and Germany, while half of Team UK attained the world class standard in future skills including cyber security and web technologies.”
He continued, “It is our ambition that world-class practices in cyber security, laboratory skills and industrial robotics can be employed in training benefitting young people studying those skills as soon as possible. Successfully training young people to meet global industry standards will not only boost innovation, productivity and competitiveness, it will also help attract inward investment, bringing high-quality jobs to more parts of the UK, supporting the Government’s plans to boost economic growth.”
The next WorldSkills Competition will take place in 2024 in Lyon, France.
