Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion have collectively won nearly 50 Welsh medals at a Skills Competition Wales awards evening.
Skills Competition Wales aims to raise the profile of skills in Wales and offers students, trainees and apprentices an opportunity to challenge and raise their skills through regional and national competitions.
Some of these competitions can also lead to training and selection for Squad and Team UK to compete on an international stage.
Coleg Sir Gâr students impressively won 14 golds, four silvers and nine bronze medals and Coleg Ceredigion students from across Cardigan and Aberystwyth campuses won 10 gold medals, three silver medals and six bronze medals.
Gold medals were awarded in areas including carpentry, performing arts, joinery, restaurant service and patisserie and confectionery. Silver medals included joinery, restaurant service, inclusive skills and beauty therapy. Bronze included enterprise and motor vehicle inclusive skills.
This is the first year performing arts has been introduced as a category to the competitions and students at Coleg Ceredigion won the best in Wales with their gold medals.
Carl Lewis, lecturer in Performing Arts at Coleg Ceredigion said:
”I couldn’t be more proud of my fantastic students. Again, it demonstrates the excellent, industry standard, professional training that Coleg Ceredigion offers in Performing Arts and the standard and quality of the students that study here. This is a fantastic aculade to have been awarded, winning gold and therefore the best in Wales in the performing arts skills competition. To anyone thinking of entering onto an acting,singing,dancing,performance pathway, clearly there is only one place to be in West Wales and that is Coleg Ceredigion.”
The event, held at Coleg Sir Gâr’s forge theatre was one of many satellite-linked events which celebrated medal success across Wales.
Skills Competition Wales aims to raise the profile of skills in Wales and offers students, trainees and apprentices in Wales a chance to challenge, benchmark and raise their skills by taking part in competitions across a range of sectors.
Funded by the Welsh Government and run by a dedicated network of colleges, work-based learning providers and employer-led organisations, it consists of a series of local skills competitions, aligned to WorldSkills and the needs of the Welsh economy.
The competitions are free to enter and typically run between January and March each year.
