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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 –...