Robin Lipscombe
Learning Facilitator
What is the proudest moment in your career to date?
Looking back - probably in winning the 1973 City & Guilds National Award in Vehicle Building Craft Work when I was a third-year apprentice. The Medal was awarded for highest marks (in the UK) achieved in both theoretical and practical examinations.
What is your favourite aspect of your job and why?
Being a skilled, hands-on crafts person in a variety of engineering crafts such as sheet metal work; assembly and welding, woodworking, pattern making and setting-out has enabled me to utilise this all-round ability to teach well over a 1000 people in period spanning 40 years.
What song is the soundtrack to your life right now?
My Way, Frank Sinatra
If you could fly anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Jamaica
If you could master a skill in a day, what would it be?
AutoCAD