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May 2007
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Welcome to the latest issue of Cogent's eBulletin
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Special issue: STEM in the Cogent sector
As the Sector Skills Council for your industry, Cogent would like to give you access to the latest information and guidance about skills, qualifications, standards and news on local and national funding opportunities for workforce development. Our e-bulletins are short, concise, quarterly updates that give you a taste of the support and information you can get from Cogent. If your details are not correct, you can reply to this email, or click hereKind regards Mervin Dadd
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>> Welcome
It is absolutely vital to the long term prosperity and sustainability of the Cogent sector that
young people are motivated to both study for and choose careers in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
The science-based Cogent sector is also fundamental to the UK becoming a highly skilled and highly productive economy - the driving force behind the Leitch Review of Skills. Our employers' success is of course underpinned by innovation and improvement, which in turn depends on high-level STEM skills. The STEM industries, including those in the Cogent sector, offer exciting and rewarding careers and a variety of opportunities across a range of disciplines. However we do know, through a range of evidence and for a mixture of reasons, that more and more of young people are choosing not to progress learning in STEM subjects at both school and in Higher Education >> Continued |
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