14 Dec 2006
Jean Llewellyn, currently Head of Skills Policy Development at the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA), has been seconded into the key role of Project Director for the National Skills Academy for Nuclear (NSAN).
Cogent Chief Executive Joanna Woolf said: “We are delighted that Jean is taking up this critically important position. Cogent submitted the Nuclear Academy bid working closely with the NWDA and the other RDAs, as well as with nuclear employers. Jean was part of the committed team who made the Academy vision a reality. She will work with a project team to complete the NSAN business plan.”
The initial NSAN submission and Business Plan will be put to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and DfES for ministerial approval, in May 2007 and announcements are expected in September 2007. The plan will set out the structure and delivery routes for the Academy and how it will be sustainable. It will also set out nuclear employers’ needs: for example the number of expected learners and how training supply will be delivered around the UK and nuclear employer’s commitment to the NSAN. Commenting on her appointment Jean said: “My secondment demonstrates the commitment and support of the NWDA to this very important and rapidly changing sector, which is facing many challenges including de-commissioning, new nuclear build, power generation and defence.”
Jean has been in her role at the NWDA for over four years and a key part of her work has been to lead on and support the development of initiatives to meet the growing skills challenges facing the nuclear sector. Jean was the Chair of the NSAN Steering Group for 2 years, a period which saw the development of the successful Nuclear Academy bid.
Jean was a key member of the bid-writing group for the Academy and is a Board member of the Nuclear Academy Northwest, (the Northwest delivery arm of the NSAN), She said, “I am now very keen to work with the other key regions and nations (Southwest, Southeast, Scotland and Wales) to ensure that NSAN has real national reach and is meeting the needs of all employers in these regions.
Jean is well known in the nuclear industry due to her lead role on skills development for the sector. She has also presented on the issues at a range of National Nuclear Conferences.
Prior to joining the NWDA Jean spent the first ten years of her career in management, and then ten years in Further and Higher Education.
Jean added: “I am delighted to be undertaking this exciting challenge and I look forward to working with employers to develop the Academy. This is a demand-led initiative and partnership with employers is a critical success factor.”
Jean’s first task will be to appoint an employer-led Shadow Board who will oversee and steer the business planning process.
David Bonser, Executive Director, BNFL, has said: "It is vital that the education and training provision we require is led by the needs of the nuclear industry. A National Skills Academy means that employers will be able to determine the programmes on offer and to shape the content, design and delivery of training and development, taking intelligence-based decisions. The industry has some unique requirements and the NSAN will ensure that these are met in a consistent way as we move forward into the future.”
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