SkillsFest25 - UK Skills Partnership's global skills and training showcase

SkillsFest25

SKILLSFEST25 will take place from Monday 22nd September to Friday 26th September 2025 in partnership the Department for Business and Trade International Education team.

SkillsFest25 will provide an amazing 16 hours of skills and lifelong learning sessions delivered by 48 world class UK skills training providers through 8 webinars spread over 5 days. 

Participants from all over the globe will experience some of the world’s most innovative and high quality skills and training delivery demonstrated through case studies and live examples during SkillsFest25. The daily interactive  sessions will showcase skills solutions that can be contextualised for delivery wherever you are!

That’s right, it is a week-long global online SkillsFest and is FREE to participate in wherever you are in the world!

SkillsFest25 celebrate UK TVET skills brilliance to the world!

The primary audience for SkillsFest25 is for anyone outside of the UK, but of course we welcome those in the UK to watch too. Everyone from overseas Government ministries and their agencies, donor banks, non-Government organisations and aid agencies, public and private skills and education institutes, skills bodies, senior leadership, employers, trade bodies and more, are invited to watch the latest innovations in Technical and Vocational education and Training / skills development and delivery from brilliant UK suppliers.

Wherever you are located across the world, SkillsFest25 will take place online, and will be FREE to watch. The participant registration process will open shortly.

The line up of UK skills providers will include:

In each session, there will be different UK world class skills providers to demonste how they can support your skills ambitions.

  • professional and chartered bodies/institutes
  • further education colleges
  • independent training providers
  • awarding organisations
  • sectoral skills bodies
  • skills tech and equipment suppliers
  • vocational English language providers

UKSP TVET Skills Offer

A wide range of solutions and skills provision will be showcased through case studies. The SkillsFest will cover:

  • Green/ sustainability (for example infrastructure, energy, finance, agri, aqua etc)
  • Future facing technology (for example AI, robotics, key enabling technologies etc)
  • Advanced manufacturing and innovation
  • Digital literacy / coding / ICT / cyber
  • Professional, entrepreneurship and business services
  • Healthcare, social care and Pharmaceutical
  • Cognitive, soft, core and behavioural skills
  • Tourism, hospitality and visitor economy
  • Teacher capacity and capability skills training
  • Logistics, distribution & maritime
  • Gender, Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)

Check out SkillsFest2024

Take a look at the recordings of the sessions from SkillsFest2024. You can also see all of the UK Skills Training providers.

Whatever you do, don’t miss out on being part of SkillsFest2025!

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