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Semta and Cogent agree Skills Partnership to simplify support for manufacturing, process and nuclear employers |
08 Feb 2010
Sector Skills Councils Semta and Cogent today announced a strategic Partnership Agreement to improve support to employers in their sectors by collaborating on common areas of research, on science and technology skills and qualification development.
As Sector Skills Councils they are responsible for representing employers in engineering, and process industry manufacturing and the nuclear industry and they have responsibility for leading on skills to make these industries more competitive.
Semta works with employers in Aerospace, Automotive, Bioscience, Electrical, Electronics, Maintenance, Marine, Mathematics, Mechanical, Metals and Engineered Metal Products and Science. Cogent works with the, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear, Oil and Gas, Polymer and Petroleum Industries. Both have National Skills Academies who already collaborate on the development of training programmes, assessors and trainers.
There is natural cross-over between Semta and Cogent employers particularly in new and emerging industries, in the application of technology in bio-science and advanced materials which will demand the very highest skills.
Collaboration on research:
- To make support for employers more efficient in shared areas of interest, Semta and Cogent will work together on researching employers’ skills needs and ensuring the right qualifications and training provision is in place to meet those needs.
- They will produce joint strategies on driving up science technology engineering and maths (STEM) subject take-up and influencing Higher Education on behalf of employers.
Joint standards and qualification development:
- Both Sector Skills Councils will jointly develop standards and qualifications that underpin workforce development, and will collaborate where common skills are required within a workforce such as lab technicians.
Philip Whiteman, Chief Executive of Semta, said: “We are committed to creating a simplified skills landscape to make the entire process of identifying and tackling skills shortages easier for employers, stakeholders and government. As leading sector skills councils, who represent employers across the engineering and process industry manufacturing sectors, Semta and Cogent are ideally placed to deliver collaborative solutions for employers.”
Cogent Chief Executive Joanna Woolf described the working relationship: “A joint forum will be established to efficiently manage the areas of interdependency between Semta and Cogent, which will eliminate repetition and ensure better use of resources and greater understanding of employers’ need.”
The Chairmen and Chief Executives of Semta and Cogent will meet quarterly to review the Partnership Agreement, and both will appoint a Director to be responsible for the delivery of the Agreement.
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