Sixteen SRC Students to Compete at WorldSkills UK Finals in Manchester

This November, sixteen students from Southern Regional College are travelling to Manchester to take part in the WorldSkills UK National finals from 19^th – 22^nd November. Participating across nine competition disciplines, students will be demonstrating their many learned skills with hopes of bringing home bronze, silver or gold medals.

Southern Regional College has been hugely successful at WorldSkills UK in recent years, being named the top performing College in the UK, in both the 2023 and 2024 national finals. Hope remains high for students participating in this year’s finals.

Competition areas include automation, automotive refinishing, culinary arts, electrical installation, health & social care, restaurant services, industry 4.0, laboratory technician and mechatronics.

Each competition area consists of eight finalists, or in six teams of two persons in the areas of automation, mechatronics and industry 4.0. To make it to the finals, students have competed at college and regional qualifiers earlier this year, with scores across the UK benchmarked and quality assured.

Following this benchmarking exercise, the top scoring students were named as finalists in July. Since the July finalist announcement, all SRC students have been in training, to fine tune their skills in advance of the November national finals.

Students competing in this year’s finals are:

Following the WorldSkills UK finals, students who have exceeded scoring requirements may be invited to join Squad UK and participate in the EuroSkills and WorldSkills competition series.

WorldSkills UK is a four-nation partnership between the education sector, industry and the UK government to build a ‘skills economy’ by embedding world-class training standards to drive investment, jobs and economic growth.