UK’s ‘top tilers’ at Northumberland College

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Originally Posted by TTA

Northumberland College students have scooped Gold and Silver at the national final of Skillbuild.
Glenn Rourke, 21, from Newcastle, was awarded gold and Stephen Elliot, 17, from Gateshead, won silver in the competition, which encourages young people to compete in a number of specialist trades including wall and floor tiling, roofing, plastering, painting, stone masonry and carpentry.
The competition required each student to replicate a bathroom in less than two days. This involved some very difficult fittings and the insertion of movement joints, trims and fix floor tiling.
Glenn Rourke, who has recently completed an NVQ3 wall and floor tiling course at Northumberland College, commented: “Winning the award was great. I came third in last year’s Skillbuild so I extremely pleased to win at this year’s competition.”
Steve Ainsley, Course Team Leader at Northumberland College enthused: “This is the second time that a student from Northumberland College has won gold at the Skillbuild competition so we are delighted.”
Over 5000 people attended the event, which was held at Barnfield College Luton, Bedfordshire, including Phil Hope MP, Under Secretary of State for Skills. The presentation evening was held at Whipsnade Zoo. All students who participated in the event were sponsored by The Tile Association, which represents all aspects of the wall and floor tile industry in the UK.
David Forbes, Chairman of The Tile Association commented: "The TTA is delighted that students from the tiling trades were gold and silver winners of this years Skillbuild. It recognises their achievements and skills and hopefully will encourage more people to take up tiling as a career.”
He added: “We would like to encourage more tiling contractors to join the TTA and get their trainees to qualify for NVQs via our training programmes and perhaps be winners of Skillbuild in the future."”
Glenn, Stephen and each of the regional winners received a cheque from The Tile Association and each finalist was presented with a Rubi Tile Cutter courtesy of Yell.com Click here for more information on Northumberland College

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