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Industry Skills Standards and Qualifications
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Cogent is developing a suite of qualifications that underpin "Gold Standards" and Job Contexts to enable acquisition and recognition of competence to National Standards for key roles in the sectors. |
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Apprentices
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Apprentices continue to be a major strand of Cogent's work and represent a highly-respected system of training and education. Apprenticeships provide the vital supply of skilled employees for the future with the right skills to meet the future sector needs. |

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Future Skills
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Cogent's Future Skills research programme provides the evidence and essential intelligence to inform Cogent's strategy and programme of activity, as well as, providing employers with the trend data to support their own workforce planning.
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Career Pathways
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This is a sector-wide web-based initiative, welcomed both by employers and stakeholders alike and which is attracting thousands of new users month on month. It is playing an important part in securing the talents industry needs now and in the future.
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Skills Benchmarking
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This Big Ticket is underpinned by an IT platform which provides the all-important employer benchmarking against the Cogent standards and job roles, as well as a web-based skills match product which allows individual assessment against the Gold Standard Competencies. Cogent is setting the standard for skills in the Sector and developing the tools to allow companies to assess their performance.
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