Team Wales Torch Relay Lights Up Cambria as Learners Prepare for WorldSkills UK Finals
The relay is building excitement ahead of the WorldSkills UK National Finals – hosted in Wales for the very first time this November – and shining a spotlight on the road to WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, known globally as the ‘Skills Olympics’. Across Wales, colleges have joined together to celebrate the collective effort behind Team Wales’s […]
EIGHT of our rising stars and our industry partners are gearing up to compete in one of the UK’s most prestigious skills competitions – and they’re ready to shine on home turf
This year’s WorldSkills UK National Finals – dubbed the ‘Skills Olympics’ – will take place in Wales for the first time from November 26–28, with contests held across five venues. Representing Cambria’s sites in Wrexham, Deeside, Llysfasi, and Northop, the college’s elite team of students and apprentices will go head-to-head with the best in the […]
Rising to the Challenge: Our Learners Put to the Test Ahead of the UK Skills Olympics
A group of Aircraft Maintenance students and apprentices from Coleg Cambria Deeside completed a ‘pressure test’ against the clock and under the watchful eye of Jamie Mapp-Jones, Curriculum Director of Full-time Apprenticeships, and Technical Training Officers (TTO) Caleb Maxfield and Rosie Boddy. Rosie is also a former WorldSkills UK Gold winner, and the organisation endorsed […]
Coleg Cambria was represented by the largest team of apprentices and foundation skills learners from Wales at this year’s WorldSkills UK finals
And once again the college – based in Deeside, Wrexham, Northop and Llysfasi – achieved medals and was highly commended in a raft of categories, including: Welding: Zac Winn (Gold) Aircraft Maintenance: Robert Jones (Silver), Aiden Williams (Bronze), and James Prescott (Highly Commended) Metal Fabricator: Mark Wright (Silver), Jimmy Smith (Bronze) Beauty Therapist: Darcy Watson […]
Coleg Cambria will take the largest team of apprentices and foundation skills learners from Wales to this year’s WorldSkills UK finals
The event will take place from November 19-22 at colleges, independent training providers and universities across Greater Manchester, including Bolton, Rochdale, Wigan and Leigh, and Oldham. The 17 representatives from Cambria – which has sites in Wrexham, Deeside, Llysfasi, and Northop – and industry partners are: Aircraft Maintenance –Aiden Williams, Kleo Pepa, James Prescott, Kieran O’ […]
There was a silver lining for a top Welsh college at this year’s ‘Skills Olympics’
Coleg Cambria achieved three silver medals and a bronze at the WorldSkills UK finals. The successful participants were: James Donohue – Aircraft Maintenance – Silver Ben Gillin – LME – Electrical Installation – Silver Brandon Nicholson – Fabdec – Welding – Silver Kosiah Sylvester – Brother Industries Ltd – IT Support Technician – Bronze Jimmy […]
Coleg Cambria will take a 16-strong team of apprentices to this year’s WorldSkills UK competition
The event will be held over three days from November 14 at colleges, independent training providers and universities across Greater Manchester, including Rochdale, Salford, Wigan and Leigh, and Oldham. The representatives from Cambria are: Aircraft Maintenance – Kieran O’Loan, Jamie Foulkes, Aiden Williams, Henry Ankers, Jack Price, James Donohue (All Airbus) CNC Milling – Theodore […]
Coleg Cambria and industry partners topped the table at this year’s Skills Competition Wales tournament
The north east Wales college was represented by 124 learners and apprentices in a wide range of areas, achieving 15 gold medals, 10 silver and six bronze. Among those to emerge victorious were Joshua Mitchell for IT Network Security; Jack Sherry, Tylor Ward and Daniel Ward in the Manufacturing Team Challenge; Enterprise students Harrison Hughes, […]
Coleg Cambria learners have again demonstrated they have the skills to succeed on the global stage
Three apprentices have been selected for the WorldSkills UK squad in advance of the WorldSkills international event to be held in France next year. They are: Bella Bailey – Beauty Therapy Practitioner – Afon Spa, Aura Leisure Centre Deeside Rosie Boddy – Aeronautical Engineering – Airbus UK, Broughton Timoteusz Rozanski – Aeronautical Engineering – Airbus […]
Charlie Samson will compete for gold at the WorldSkills finals this autumn
But the 24 year-old will no longer have to travel to Shanghai as the event was cancelled earlier this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will now take place at Coleg Cambria’s Bersham Road site in Wrexham from November 1-4. Representing the college and Chirk-based Kronospan, Charlie joins South Walians George Denman and Michael […]