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Social Networking and the Youth Forum

This past week I had the pleasure of attending the WorldSkills General Assembly and Youth Forum in Kingston, Jamaica. What a wonderful week in the hub of Caribbean Industry and Education. I had the opportunity to converse with the technical delegates from 37 of the 51 countries competing in the upcoming WorldSkills event in London. [...]

Where is Educational Training Going in the Future?

Educational reform is a very hot topic. We at Cisco grew from an educational institution (Stanford University). We understand how important it is to use  technology to enable the students and instructors to create the leaders and career stars of the future. This video took place live online on August 31st, 2010. (Watch in Ustream: [...]

Modelling Vocational Excellence

We wanted to know about how young people experience WorldSkills so that WorldSkills has the information it needs to help make that experience as positive as possible.  We also want to know how young people become skilled at their trade and what happens during the training, work and competition stages of the journey towards skills [...]