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Mayo apprentice Jonathan Flynn wins Medallion of Excellence in Brazil
Posted On Aug 17 2015
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Daniel Lee, a third-year student from Nanyang Polytechnic, was Singapore’s best performing competitor, clinching a silver medal in IT Network Systems Administration.
(From left to right): Nanyang Polytechnic’s Lim Ling and Daniel Lee, and Temasek Polytechnic’s Josephine Quek.
Labour Minister Surasak Karnjanarat said during the visit to the venue in Brazil last Wednesday that the WorldSkills Competition was a chance for Thai youth to prove their expertise and show the world that our young people’s skills are of an worldwide standard.
These results mean that most of its competitors from the polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) had attained high scores across most of the 20 trades that it took part in.
Nguyen Thanh Duy raked a bronze medal in the IT software solutions for business at the 43rd WorldSkills Competition – the first medal of the Vietnamese team after five times participating in the event.
Its performance in areas it has been traditionally strong in, such as health and social care and beauty therapy, also slipped this year.
The competition, billed as the “Olympics of skills”, saw about 1,200 competitors from 59 countries battling it out in 50 skill categories.
The WorldSkills Competition is the world’s largest professional education event and is held every two years.
Mr Lee, who put up the best showing for Singapore, will also be receiving a cash prize of $10,000 from the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA).
“I didn’t expect to win because I made some small mistakes on the first day of the competition”, said Mr Lee.
Ireland’s gold medals came in the area of restaurant service and aircraft maintenance, won by Alina Síle and Ros Wynne respectively.
The UK bronze medals were won by 20-year-old architectural stonemason Sam Turner, from York College and The Dean and Chapter of York Minster, and 22-year-old vehicle painter Rebecca Wilson, from Northern Ireland’s Riverpark Training and CM Accident fix Centre.
