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Bricklaying Trade Skills and WorldSkills Australia: A meeting of minds.
Providing a plentiful supply of skilled brick and blocklayers to serve the brick manufacturing industry is challenging. While demand for brick homes and commercial construction continues to be high, the range of trade career choices available to aspiring apprentices is…
Where are they now? Web Developer Jarrad Langdon
In this edition of Where Are They Now? – we are focusing on someone from our WorldSkills community who has been instrumental in the launch of the wonderful new WorldSkills Australia website, Jarrad Langdon Director of Jala Design. Jarrad is…
Skillaroos and Team Australia announced
With just 86 days until the opening of the world’s largest skills competition taking place Abu Dhabi WorldSkills Australia has selected an elite team of 43 people including 18 competitors, mentors and officials who will represent Australia at the 44th…
Past, Present and Future: A competitor’s journey
Young men and women across Australia enter WorldSkills competitions for a variety of reasons: it sounded like fun, to test themselves, because their employer or teacher encouraged them to, but some have a deeper reason. A long term reason, to…
Where are they now? Vehicle Painter Stuart Aisbett
Sometimes life can be strange… you start down one path and end up on another and without really realising it you are living the dream. This is what happened to Vehicle Painter Stuart Aisbett. After finishing high school and not…
An Historic Partnership: TAFE Queensland and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) will be the largest sporting event Australia will see this decade and the biggest sporting spectacular the Gold Coast has ever seen. With just under a year to go until over 6,600 athletes…
Australians to participate in Technical and Vocational Training International Youth Forum
Hundreds of young people from across the WorldSkills community will come together in Abu Dhabi to as part of the 44th International Competition to “Think Future” about vocational education and training. The first International TVET Youth Forum will be held from…
Dylan Bolch – Welding his Way to a Secure Future
Twenty-two year old welder Dylan Bolch has big dreams and a firm plan as to how he is going to achieve them with step one being “get named as a member of the Skillaroos team going to Abu Dhabi”. With…
National Volunteer Week Profile – Barbara Hawkins
Dedication, consistency and genuine care for those around her – these are just some of the qualities that make up one of WorldSkills longest serving volunteers, Barbara Hawkins. Barbara began volunteering with WorldSkills in 1986 when she was a TAFE…
National Volunteer Week Profile – Jody Ridgeway
Positions: Centre Director, Trades and Resources TAFE Queensland East Coast/Team Leader of the Official Skillaroo Supporters Tour State: Queensland Jody Ridgeway first heard of WorldSkills when it was Work Skills all the way back in 1988. A hairdresser by trade…
National Volunteer Week Profile – Rachel Sullivan
Position: Current Team Leader Skillaroos (since 2003) State: Tasmania As far as dedication and commitment goes, Rachel Sullivan continues to go above and beyond as an instrumental volunteer of WorldSkills Australia. Rachel has been involved with WorldSkills since her own…
Skills Squad member Brett McPaul adds another trophy to his awards cabinet
Engineering apprentice, Brett McPaul, was singled out to receive a Highly Commended Judges Award at the 2017 HVTC Excellence Awards held in Newcastle on Friday night. The 20 year old from Albion Park was recognised for his success in Australia’s…
WorldSkills Joins Mission to Strengthen Education Ties With India
A delegation from WorldSkills Australia and the Federal Government recently traveled to India for a two-day to mission to strengthen education and skills collaboration between the two countries. WorldSkills Australia CEO Brett Judd said the visit was a prime opportunity…
Australian Apprenticeships Ambassador: Mary George
For Australian Apprenticeship Ambassador Mary George, her determination to become a pastry chef began at the early age of thirteen where she started her own cupcake baking business. After watching episodes of MasterChef, attending food events and participating in French…
Practice Makes Flawless
Lily Campbell, a skin therapist apprentice from Riverina Murray in New South Wales, is currently training for the chance to represent Australia at the world’s largest vocational skills competition – WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. Lily’s journey is supported by WorldSkills…
LOCAL PASTRY CHEF CHAMPION TO TRAIN WITH WORLD’S BEST IN FRANCE
Bossley Park local Mary George will head to France on Saturday 8th April for intensive training at the world’s best patisserie kitchen, Chateau de vault de Lugny in Burgundy. As part of her training as a member of the Skills…
LOCAL TRADE CHAMPION TO TEST HIS SKILLS IN CHINA
Jimboomba local Nathan McHugh will head to China on the 9th April to undertake four days of intensive training at the Guangzhou Invitation Tournament in China. The 21-year-old was selected last year as a member of WorldSkills Australia’s Skills Squad,…
YOUNG CANBERRA LANDSCAPE CHAMPIONS FEATURE AT INTERNATIONAL FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW
Alexander Halls, from Queanbeyan East, and Dougal King, from Charnwood, have been given the opportunity to create a garden at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, which runs from March 29 to April 2. Alex, 22, and Dougal, 21,…
Skills Squad represent Australian skill excellence in the UK
This March five of the Skills Squad members will be in the Manchester region in the UK for four days of skills competition against their WorldSkills UK counterparts. Each of the participating Skills Squad members were selected following their individual…
Local Bakery Champion Tests Her Skills in China
Jetsetting bakery champion Maddison (Maddy) McCloskey will travel to China this month for a week of intensive training at the Wangsen School in Suzhou, a city that has a population of 10.5mil people and is situated in the Jiangsu Province,…