The National Skills Academy
for Nuclear has been established at the request of Nuclear employers to address
the key skills and training challenges facing the Nuclear industry to ensure it
has a skilled workforce that can operate safely and effectively and can also
meet the future demands of this rapidly changing industry.
The vision
of the National Skills Academy
for Nuclear
"To create, develop and promote world class skills and career pathways
to support a sustainable future for the UK nuclear industry.”
What is the model?
The Skills
Academy is structured around the five
main areas of the Nuclear activity across the UK
(Northwest/Northeast, Southeast/East, Southwest, Scotland
and Wales)
and a Regional Training Cluster (RTC) is being established in each
region. Within each Regional Training Cluster there will be a hub which
will support the Regional Manager with the development and delivery of quality
training by Skills
Academy assured providers.
Where possible, the Skills Academy
will build on existing good provision in the region and will work with current
providers to raise the standards and ensure they are responding to employer
demand. The Skills
Academy will work via a
variety of models: for example, existing training centres, FE Colleges,
Universities, on employer sites, new purpose built facilities and so on - the
physical presence will be dependant on what is needed for each region.
What will
Skills Academy do?
The National
Skills Academy
for Nuclear will play a transformational role for the sector. The changing
skills mix required by the nuclear sector, demands increased flexibility and
mobility. As the transition from operating, to decommissioning, through to new
build takes place, a flow of matching skills will be needed. The National Skills Academy
for Nuclear will address these needs by…
- Developing a portfolio of solutions and products focusing
primarily on addressing the acute gap in technical and vocational skills.
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Developing transferability and common standards through
the Skills Passport, National Occupational Standards and the Unescorted Worker
Access Programme. This standardisation will enable a portability of employment
between SLC sites, which will help to address the peaks and troughs of
work/demand across the industry.
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Increase the return on training investment by employers by
co-ordinating
and quality assuring the provision on offer.
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Encouraging the continuing delivery of Foundation
Degrees
and supporting the development of a scheme to convert Foundation Degrees to Honours Degrees.
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Working with schools via the Energy Foresight Programme and other partners to
increase the number of young people studying STEM
subjects.
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Working with Cogent SSC on the Career Pathways, the Trade Unions
Aim Higher project (to help colleagues know more about opportunities in
further and higher education) and the Nuclear
Credit Framework. This will create a clear pathway visible to employees
within the Nuclear Industry and potential employees outside of the industry can
see how their futures may be structured.
-
Working with University partners (through a lead Higher
Education Institution) to develop new Higher Level provision to enable onward
progression.
For further information on the full portfolio of skills
development being undertaken by the Skills
Academy, including
Apprenticeships, Foundation Degrees and other learning resources, visit or
website www.nuclear.nsacademy.co.uk
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