Project overview
The Lancashire Colleges’ Skills Competition Programme 2024
The Lancashire Colleges’ Skills Competition Programme 2024, sponsored by the Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub and Future U, took place from 12th to 22nd March 2024. It was delivered by a partnership of nine of Lancashire’s colleges, who each hosted a different competition, seeing their ‘home team’ competing against those from other colleges to demonstrate key skills.
Each competition was judged by a panel involving key local employers, with medals being awarded to the winners and runners-up, as well as special ‘Rising Star’ awards for the individual students that showed the most potential.
Evaluation of the inaugural Lancashire Colleges’ Skills Competition Programme
Lancashire Business View Feature
The Lancashire Journal Feature (pages 56-57)
2024 Results
Project aims
The Lancashire Colleges’ Skills Competition Programme objectives are to;
• Provide Lancashire students with the opportunity to showcase the technical skills they have learnt across a number of specialisms.
• Provide not only an opportunity to develop technical excellence for our students, but also personal attributes such as teamwork and resilience, as well as employability skills.
• Increase the number of Lancashire students who apply for further skills competitions, for example World Skills UK.
• Raise awareness of career pathways.
• Work with Lancashire based employers though the project, to enable them to promote their business to the pipeline workforce of the future.