National Electrotechnical Training (NET)

The eight SkillELECTRIC competitors who scored most highly across the recent national qualifying heats have been named: Top Row L-R 🌟 Charlie Moore – Bramham Electrical Ltd / College of West Anglia 🌟 Fabian Maciejewski – a completed T Level Learner at Leicester College 🌟 Joe Swallow – M&C Engineering / Suffolk New College  🌟 John-Ross Campbell – A CAMPBELL ELECTRICAL SERVICES LTD / SECTT Bottom Row L-R 🌟 Jonathan Gough – MD Electrics / Southern Regional College 🌟 Kalum Low – MS Electrical and Renewables / SECTT 🌟 Milly Smith – CS McKerlie Electrical Services / SECTT 🌟 Richard Westwood – Dudley College All have now been invited to take part in the SkillELECTRIC UK Final being held at Oldham College across the week of 18th November. SkillELECTRIC, the annual search for the UK’s best student electrician, is part of the WorldSkills UK competition framework. The event is organised by industry charity National Electrotechnical Training (NET), has Electric Center, the NICEIC and Scolmore International Limited as its delivery partners and is supported by Megger, EAL Awards, Snickers Workwear and Carl Kammerling International Ltd (CK Tools). Alongside SkillELECTRIC, around 50 other WorldSkills national competition finals will be taking place that week across nine venues around Greater Manchester, involving over 400 competitors. To be crowned SkillELECTRIC champion, competitors will have to excel in a complicated three-day practical installation task set to a strict timescale and against a rigorous marking criteria. Following the success of the solar PV task in last year’s final, the event this year will also include an electric vehicle charging-related task for competitors to tackle. Those who perform well enough and are age eligible could be in with a chance of representing the UK in the Electrical Installation competition at WorldSkills 2026 in Shanghai, China. “After witnessing some great skills on display across our national qualifying heats, it’s great to welcome a real cross section of industry learners in this year’s final”, said Jennie Phung, SkillELECTRIC Project Manager. “From T-Levels, to apprenticeships, to mature learners and career changers, our finalist mix this year shows the varied ways you can start your journey in the electrical industry on the way to becoming qualified. We look forward to November’s event and working with our competitors between now and then to help them prepare for their UK final performance.”

Back in May we announced that recently qualified electrician Daniel Knox from GP Electrical & Security in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, is representing the UK at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France, later this year. Daniel’s training is now well underway and last week he spent time with WorldSkills Training Manager Geoff Shaw at Cardiff and Vale College practising some key components that he’ll be facing at the competition. Good luck Daniel as you continue your training programme over the coming months!

Following our SkillELECTRIC heat earlier in the week at Nottingham College we're pleased to announce our Top 3 competitors: 🌟 1st: Fabian Maciejewski - Leicester College 🌟 2nd: Roo Daley - HM Forces (ARMY) Corps of Royal Engineers 🌟 3rd: Anne Greaves - Glenfield Electrical / Leicester College Congratulations to Fabian, Roo, Anne and all that took part on the day - it was great to have all delivery partners Electric Center NICEIC Scolmore International Limited at the event and Megger / Lee Baker also in attendance! That was the last of our 2024 heats, we'll be announcing next month who has scored most highly across all events and made it through to the SkillELECTRIC UK final taking place later this year...

Today is the day of our final SkillELECTRIC heat of 2024 - judges Neil McManus TMIET Steve Clifton MIET and Simon (Sam) Donaghy are at Nottingham College to oversee the event. Good luck to all competitors! Electric Center NICEIC Scolmore International Limited

Congratulations to the Top 3 competitors at our UHI Perth SkillELECTRIC heat last week, all SECTT apprentices: 🌟 1st: Milly Smith 🌟 2nd: Kalum Low 🌟 3rd: John-Ross Campbell We'll find out next month if they've scored highly enough to reach the SkillELECTRIC UK final in November. Our final heat takes place this week at Nottingham College - watch this space for more updates! #skillelectric

For the next two days we're at Perth College / UHI Perth for our penultimate SkillELECTRIC heat. Judging today are Neil McManus TMIET of Scolmore International Limited and Craig Johnson of SECTT. Good luck to everyone taking part! #skillelectric

Following our SkillELECTRIC heat at the College of West Anglia earlier this week we're pleased to announce our Top 3 competitors: 1st: Charlie Moore - College of West Anglia 2nd: Joe Swallow - Suffolk New College 3rd: Casey Marshall - HM Forces (ARMY) Corps of Royal Engineers Congratulations to Charlie, Joe, Casey and all competitors that took part. Next week we'll be at UHI Perth for our penultimate heat - watch this space for more information!

Competitors off to a great start at our SkillELECTRIC College of West Anglia heat this morning

Today’s SkillELECTRIC heat is taking place at the College of West Anglia - thanks to our judges in attendance Alex Robinson, Neil McManus TMIET and Simon (Sam) Donaghy - good luck to all competitors about to take part!

Congratulations to the Top 3 competitors from our SkillELECTRIC heat held at Eastleigh College last week: 🌟 1st: Taylor Slade - Bridgwater & Taunton College 🌟 2nd: Joshua Benson-Armer - Eastleigh College / JTL 🌟 3rd: Joshua Attard - Eastleigh College Well done to everyone who took part in the event and thank you to our delivery partners Electric Center, NICEIC and Scolmore International Limited for their support on the day. Tomorrow our heats continue at the College of West Anglia - good luck to all those preparing to take part.