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Skills for Employability Newsletter - Spring Update |
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Book Your Place at WorldSkills 2011 |
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The WorldSkills Competition London 2011 is the world's largest, international skills competition with over 1,000 young people from over 50 countries competing to be the best of the best in their chosen skill from bricklaying to mobile robotics. This year the 41st WorldSkills Competition is being hosted in London Excel exhibition centre from 4th to 9th October.
British Council, in partnership with WorldSkills London 2011 and WorldSkills International, is offering the opportunity for senior international stakeholders to participate in a high level conference which will have as a central theme the importance of skills and technical education in global economic recovery. The conference will be hosted during WorldSkills London 2011 and delegates will have the opportunity of visiting the Competitions.
This is a unique opportunity to observe the world's best young skilled professionals competing and to participate in a world class conference on the themes of skills development, policy and practice. Visit our website to check the participation offers and to book your place.
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Winners of the CSA Enterprise Challenge are Nepal and Pakistan |
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 As part of the Skills for Employability Programme, British Council ran Enterprise Challenge competitions in Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan and Uzbekistan that highlighted excellence in enterprise, innovation and technology. After the national finals, five countries across Central and South East Asia Region competed for the regional final. However, this time the challenge was on the virtual platform.
Each team were asked to prepare videos to present their ideas for the regional final and the visitors of the website voted their favourite videos. Online public votes and jury votes determined the winner.
The public votes were an important factor in deciding the wining team, with a panel of judges also contributing to the final decision and the winner of the Central and South Asia Enterprise Challenge; NEPAL and PAKISTAN! |
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Changing Lives! |
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British Council's Skills for Employability Programme reached 70 million people across the globe. Skills for Employability, the British Council's flagship programme for skills development and vocational education uses a wide range of products, services to reach its target audience. With skills development partnerships, enterprise challenge competitions and policy dialogue events, the programme operates in 38 countries, each with its own needs, but all sharing the goal of growing a skilled labour force. Many countries face the challenges of high unemployment, skills shortages and a disconnection between the education system and current and future needs of employers and wider society. Across the world, the British Council has been working with major national and multinational companies as well as Ministries of Education, education institutions and the labour market to help reduce this. In this issue of the Skills for Employability newsletter, we would like to share some of the interesting stories about our work.
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