Skills

Thirty skills across six sectors. Each one is judged against a test project written with employers.

Set out, cut and lay tile so the joints run dead straight across a difficult shape.

Preparation, cutting in, wallcovering and a sign-written panel finished to the edge.

Copper, plastic and steel brought together into a rig that holds pressure first time.

Wire a working installation to the national code, then prove it tests clean.

A small piece of furniture, dry-fitted, glued and finished inside the competition window.

Roof geometry and joinery cut by hand and machine, then assembled on the stand.

A free-standing structure set out from a drawing, built plumb and to the millimetre.

Four processes, one test piece, and an X-ray that shows every mistake.