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Promoting Skills Excellence through WorldSkills
Retail Training Hub, ITE College East, Singapore: (from left) Ms Sabrina Loi, Divisional Director/Corporate Affairs/ITE; Mr Seng-Hua Tan, Principal/ITE College East; Mr Guan-Teck Heng Deputy CEO (Academic)/ITE, & Singapore’s Technical Delegate to WS; Mr Jeff Wilson, Managing Director, WS Calgary 2009 Organising Com; Mr David Hoey, Secretary General, WS; Mr David Shanks, Manager, Corporate Partnerships, WS Calgary 2009 Organising Com; Mr Jack (Tjerk) Dusseldorp, President, WS; Dr Song-Seng Law, Director & CEO/ITE, & Singapore’s Official Delegate to WS; and Mr Guy Mallabone, Chair, Board of Directors, WS Calgary 2009 Organising Comm.
A meeting of minds with a common spirit and goals to achieve skills excellence worldwide. This was how Dr Law Song Seng, Director and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Technical Education (ITE), Singapore, and Singapore’s Official Delegate to WorldSkills, described the meeting with WorldSkills delegates in Singapore. Seven members from WorldSkills, WorldSkills Canada and WorldSkills Japan met at the ITE Headquarters, from 13 to 15 April 2005, to discuss the direction and strategies for the WorldSkills Competitions (WSC) to be held in Japan (2007) and Canada (2009). They also took the opportunity to discuss how they could follow up on Singapore’s offer to help WorldSkills in its marketing efforts in promoting technical and vocational skills. WorldSkills, an international body with 39 member countries, including Singapore, aims to get youths worldwide interested in skilled trade careers. A core activity of this body is the WSC, the largest skills competition in the world. Held biennially in one of its member countries, the competition attracts young people worldwide and sets world-class standards in over 40 skills categories. The 38th WSC was held in Helsinki, Finland, from 26 to 29 May 2005.
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Nearly 120 000 visitors in WorldSkills 2005 Helsinki
WorldSkills 2005 Helsinki Competition gathered 118 044 visitors to the Fair Centre during 26-29 May. Thursday and Friday were the most popular days with over 40 000 visitors on both days and most of them young students and schoolchildren. On Friday there were more visitors than ever before in the history of the Fair Centre.
And the winners are...
The best countries in WorldSkills 2005 were Switzerland (5 gold, 7 silver, 6 bronze medals and 10 diplomas), Korea (3+8+5+15), Germany (4+4+2+11) and Finland (4+1+3+17).
The Alber Vidal prize for the best score in the whole competition was awarded to Viridis Liew Mei Qi from Singapore with score of 571/600. She also won gold medal from IT PC / Network Support.
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