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

SkillsFest25

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

SkillsFest25 showcased the very best of UK skills and training innovation. Over five dynamic days, a diverse range of speakers set out their 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 was an opportunity to explore how UK skills excellence can be adapted and applied in your own context.

SkillsFest25 provided 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.

All recordings, presentations and additional supporting materials from SkillFest25 will be available for your viewing pleasure on 1st October 2025.

69
UK Providers

22
Hours

11
Web sessions

5
Days

What SkillsFest25 demonstrated.

  • 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 SkillsFest25 was aimed at:

  • International education and training professionals
  • Government and policy leaders
  • Employers and industry representatives
  • Skills development organisations
  • Anyone passionate about future-ready learning

Let’s build the future of skills together.

This was the programme of fantastic UK presenters for SkillsFest25:

[hover over each flipbox to reveal the programme for each day]

Monday 22 September

08:00 - 10:00 [UK time]

Tuesday 23 September

08:00 - 10:00 [UK time]

Tuesday 23 September

12:00 - 14:00 [UK time]

Tuesday 23 September

16:00 - 18:00 [UK time]

Wednesday 24 September

08:00 - 10:00 [UK time]

Wednesday 24 September

12:00 - 14:00 [UK time]

Wednesday 24 September

16:00 - 18:00 [UK time]

Thursday 25 September

08:00 - 10:00 [UK time]

Thursday 25 September

12:00 - 14:00 [UK time]

Thursday 25 September

16:00 - 18:00 [UK time]

Friday 26 September

08:00 - 10:00 [UK time]

Our amazing SkillsFest25 speakers included:

[click the logos to view their websites or to make direct contact with them]

Efekta
MNB Connect
NCC UK
Synthesis
Learning Curve Group
Transcend Awards
City and Guilds
NOCN Group
Apprentify
Metaverse Learning
Pearson Plc
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI)
NSAN - National Skills Academy for Nuclear
Education Training Foundation
NCFE Logo
Open Awards
Specialist Language Courses Ltd
UPSkill Universe
OCN London
Constructionarium Ltd
Unitas
WorldSkills UK
The Chartered Institute of Marketing
2020 Project Management
Vitruvia
People 1st International
Energy and Utility Skills
Skills For Inclusion Ltd
East Coast College
Cogent Skills
Chartered Insurance Institute
Forth Valley College of Further and Higher Education
NCC Group
SCU Motorsport
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI)
Gateway Qualifications
Quantum Rise Talent Group Ltd
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
Dragonfly Training
sAInaptic Limited
Edinburgh College
ECITB
EAL - Excellence Achievement & Learning Ltd
CTH - Confederation of Tourism & Hospitality
m2r Education
Skillogy International Ltd
VTCT Skills
risr/
Royal Society for Public Health RSPH
Cardiff and Vale College Logo
Cenit College
Auspicious Group
Baker Dearing International
Etio (Empowering Education International Ltd. part of Tribal Group PLC)
Immerse Education
MX Reality
Persona Education Ltd
Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI)
Chartered Institute of Credit Management [CICM]
Davies Group
Notion - STAR® Manager
The JGA Group
AMRICC
Devon and Cornwall Training Provider Network
The Coders Guild
Upskill People
Innovate UK
First Ascent Group
Virtual Internship Partners Ltd
The Department for Business and Trade

The line up of UK skills providers will included:

In each session, a different UK world class skills providers demonstrated 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 were showcased through case studies. The SkillsFest covered:

  • 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)

Ready to future-proof your workforce?

SkillsFest25 was a front-row seat to the UK’s most forward-thinking skills and training solutions designed to deliver impact, not just insight. Whether you’re scaling operations, entering new markets, or tackling productivity head-on, it’ll connect you with the skills and training providers who are shaping the future of vocational excellence.

Discover cutting-edge approaches to workforce development, explore sector-specific innovations, and build partnerships that go beyond borders.

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