National Skills Competitions

The National Skills Competition (NSC) is an exciting platform where skilled young Namibians come together to showcase their skills by competing against one another. The competition, which is organised by the NTA WorldSkills Namibia (WSN), is aimed at attracting Namibian youth to take up technical and vocational careers. It is an important platform that helps to demystify negative societal perceptions of Technical Vocational Education.

The NSC is held every second year and is a key deliverable for the TVET sector under the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP), which advocates for the staging of a “National Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) skills competition bi-annually, to promote VET as an education subsector of choice”. The competition, which is open to entrants from all public and private training institutions, industry employers, as well as private candidates, is critical in uplifting the value and quality of the TVET system, ultimately ensuring that Namibia has a skilled citizenry that can lead to an industrialised and knowledge-based economy.

Through this competition, competitors (trainees) and experts (trainers) gain much needed exposure to world-class training standards and practices as well as networking and collaborative opportunities with their counterparts.