Meet Annette Valentine who is the Programme Lead for the Nuclear Skills Strategy Board.

The industrial manufacturing sector faces a serious challenge in the UK. Companies currently have 72,000 unfilled vacancies and this – combined with an ageing workforce set to result in a significant number of expected retirements over the next five years – means employers of all sizes need to take action.

The SIP Careers Taskforce is a group of early career professionals from diverse backgrounds who share a passion for science-based careers.

Reflections on the AELP National Conference
By Steve Smith, Managing Director

Cogent Skills is proud to launch its newest report, ‘A greenprint on skills for the low-carbon industries’. This is a strategic roadmap which will help …

Updated Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) Apprenticeship funding rules for the 2023/24 academic year.

Natalie Webster was one of the first cohort of apprentices supported by Cogent Skills in 2012.

The SIP Careers Taskforce is a group of early career professionals from diverse backgrounds who share a passion for science-based careers.

From improved levels of workforce psychological safety to a reduction in process safety related incidents, EPC-UK shares positive outcomes and lessons from adopting the Process Safety Management (PSM) training standards for high hazard industries.

Key players in nuclear have come together to agree a set of four commitments to help deliver the future workforce the sector needs to thrive over the coming decades.

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This week, the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) published a new report: ‘A Simpler Skills System’. The report supports IfATE’s strategic objective of ‘Building a more integrated skills system’ and follows last year’s Big Conversation, to which SIP and NSSG members contributed.