10 August 2019
Singapore will be fielding a team of 32 students from the Institute of Technical Education, the five polytechnics, and Nanyang Technological University, to participate in the upcoming WorldSkills Competition (WSC) in Russia.
The biennial competition is dubbed the “Olympics of Skills”. It is the world’s largest vocational and technical skills competition for young people.
Commenting on the upcoming contest, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung said: “I think all our contestants today, across different institutes of higher learning, have put in blood, sweat and tears in preparing for this competition.”
This year, Singapore will be competing in 29 skill areas, including six new areas: cyber security, chemical laboratory technology, cloud computing, fashion technology, water technology and hotel reception.
A Future Skills Competition, which tests emerging skills in demand for the digital economy, will also be held in conjunction with the WSC. Such skills include building information modelling technology and drone operating. Singapore will field three competitors in these two areas.