SkillsFest25
Date: Monday 22nd September to Friday 26th September 2025 in partnership the Department for Business and Trade International Education team.
Format: 100% online via MS Teams and completely FREE to attend
SkillsFest25 is your gateway to the very best of UK skills and training innovation. Over five dynamic days, we’ll showcase world-class expertise, cutting-edge delivery models, and transformative learning solutions, all designed to inspire and inform a global audience.
Whether you’re a policymaker, educator, employer, or training provider, this is your opportunity to explore how UK skills excellence can be adapted and applied in your own context.
SkillsFest25 will provide an amazing 22 hours of skills and lifelong learning webinars delivered by 69 world class UK skills training providers through 11 webinars spread over 5 days.
69
UK Providers
22
Hours
11
Web sessions
5
Days
Why Attend?
- Discover skills and training solutions that transcend borders.
- Hear case studies of how UK skills excellence can be tailored to your country needs.
- See real-world examples of high-impact skills training in action.
- Engage with experts, ask questions, and connect with peers from across the globe.
- Hear directly from UK skills experts and leaders in vocational education, apprenticeships, and workforce development.
- Gain insights into proven strategies that drive skills transformation across industrial sectors.
- Explore how UK training providers are preparing learners for tomorrow’s jobs, today.
- Dive into themes like green skills, digital transformation, and inclusive workforce development.
- See how skills and training programmes enable gender, equality and social inclusion.
- Discover partnership opportunities with UK Chartered and professional bodies institutions and training organisations.
- Access skills toolkits, frameworks, and resources you can apply immediately in your own context.
- Learn how to adapt UK skills and training models to meet local needs and challenges.
- Witness award-winning training programmes and pioneering approaches to skills delivery.
- Be inspired by success stories that are changing lives and communities.
- Join from anywhere in the world – it’s completely free of charge.
Who Should Join?
- International education and training professionals
- Government and policy leaders
- Employers and industry representatives
- Skills development organisations
- Anyone passionate about future-ready learning
That’s right, it is a week-long global online SkillsFest and is FREE to participate in wherever you are in the world!
Be Part of the Conversation
SkillsFest25 isn’t just an event, it’s a movement. A celebration of collaboration, innovation, and the power of skills to shape a better future. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this global dialogue.
Register now and secure your place at SkillsFest25. Let’s build the future of skills together.
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)