Blog Article: De Havilland news agency's report on the Education & Skills Select Committee

Author: Kenneth Aitchison,Created 02/03/2007 08:56:10
de havilland news agency report on select committee ______________________________________________________________ Education Select Committee hears from trade unions on post-16 skills ============================================================== Type : DeHavilland Report - Parliamentary Committee Date : Wed, 28 Feb 07 Analysis : MPs today heard... (Comments 0)

Blog Article: Union Learning Rep as a witness before a Select Committee

Author: Kenneth Aitchison,Created 01/03/2007 22:35:02
      Last week I unexpectedly got a call from Sue Ferns, Prospect's Head of Research, asking me if I would like to appear before the Education and Skills Select Committee (at one week's notice).  I thought long and hard for several good microseconds before accepting, and so I have just been... (Comments 0)

Document: Sector Skills Agreement Stage 1 Skill Needs Assessment for Bioscience

Created 07/02/2007 10:47:06
The Stage 2 report will assess the effectiveness of education and training provision to meet these needs.  An analysis of the nature of, and solutions to, the gaps will be presented in Stage 3, to enable a wide-ranging discussion to take place, leading to a concerted, and UK wide action...

Document: Labour Market Survey of the Pharmaceutical and Bioscience sectors 2006

Created 07/02/2007 10:37:24
Overall the picture that emerges is of a sector that encompasses a wide range of companies in a number of distinct sub-sectors, from large multinational enterprises to micros with fewer than 10 employees. The sector is growing and has a high level of recruitment activity. New recruits in the last...

Blog Article: Government Skills Board Meeting - 22 June

Author: Sue Ferns,Created 13/07/2006 09:00:46
The most recent meeting of the Board of the Government Skills Sector Skills Council was held on 22 June.  Key issues for discussion included: * The pros and cons of expanding the remit of Government Skills to include aspects of local government.  It was agreed that further work was needed to scope... (Comments 0)

Forum Topic: Science Diploma for 14-19 year olds

Author: Sue Ferns, Created 11/07/2006 11:42:04
SEMTA is broadly supporting the development of a science diploma for 14-19 year olds. The feasibility and desirability of such a diploma will be discussed at a conference in the autumn. It has yet to be explained how this will affect the current science GCSEs. Prospect has no policy on...

Document: Manufacturing diploma for 14-19 year olds

Created 05/07/2006 16:39:46
Employer expertise needed to shape the new Manufacturing Diploma Online consultation launched 1st July 2006 Cogent is urging all employers in its footprint to grasp the opportunity to shape the development of a manufacturing diploma for 14 to 19 year-olds.  The diploma is one of a series of new vocational qualifications planned...

Forum Topic: All change in the Nuclear Industry

Author: Dai Hudd, Created 04/07/2006 15:11:56
I read Nathan’s note with interest.  He is of course right that Prospect, on behalf of its members, has a key role in these developments.  Prospect successfully argued for “Skills” to be included in the White Paper “Managing the Nuclear Legacy”.  Prospect helped draft the workforce sections of the Energy...

Document: An Assessment of Current Provision for the Nuclear Industry

Created 21/06/2006 14:31:05
See attached document

Forum Topic: All change in the nuclear industry

Author: Nathan Jones, Created 04/05/2006 15:21:02
Ever since the NDA came into being, there's been nothing but uncertainty for the nuclear industry. We've got BNFL being sold off, the NDA wanting faster decommissioning, and the Government still to make up its mind about whether or not we'll get new nuclear power stations. I'm a highly skilled...

Forum Topic: Next steps for Cogent

Author: Dai Hudd, Created 04/05/2006 15:08:34
Cogent is at a key stage in developing a sector skills agreement and also in deciding whether to bid for one or two of the new skills academies. Union representatives will be meeting with Cogent in May to ensure that the sector's unions have a full say in these developments....

Document: SEMTA / TU Marine Action Plan

Created 04/05/2006 12:38:32
This action plan is part of the marine sector skills agreement.

Document: Launch of Unionlearn

Created 04/05/2006 12:20:46
See attached speech.

Document: Government Skills Newsletter - Issue 2

Created 04/05/2006 11:59:18
This is the latest issue of Government Skills newsletter.

Document: A Skills Needs Assessment of the Petroleum Industry

Created 13/04/2006 17:57:41
see attached