Cogent: helping industry to profit through skills

We find ourselves in difficult economic times…support for businesses of every size is central to our work here at Cogent. Read on to find out more about our £50m training fund for the Sector.  The new flexibilities to England’s Train to Gain negotiated with the LSC are a welcome boost and will be available from January….

Very best wishes for 2009 from everyone at Cogent.

Springfields: why we’ll make the Skills Pledge

Mike Tynan, Managing Director of Springfields Fuel Limited, talks to Cogent about the importance of the new Train to Gain Sector Compact to the nuclear industry.  Springfields provides nuclear fuel for the UK nuclear power programme, as well as for customers worldwide. It is operated by Springfields Fuels Limited, under the management of Westinghouse Electric UK Limited. Springfields has been named as an assured engineering training facility for the National Skills Academy for Nuclear.   Cont >>

Find your way to £50m ring-fenced funding for your industry
The Government and Cogent Sector Skills Council is making £50m available for the strategically important employers in the national skills council’s vital science using sector.

Book now for UK Nuclear Skills Awards Dinner
The National Skills Academy for Nuclear and Cogent SSC have announced their first joint Annual Awards Dinner.

Support for Nuclear soars
Support for new nuclear power stations is soaring among the UK public.

Diploma in Science:  invitation to public consultation
The Diploma in Science is reaching the final stages of development ready for public consultation.

NSA Process Industries inaugural Conference
The National Skills Academy Process Industries will hold its inaugural one day conference on 30th April 2009 in York. 

Cogent Industry Councils set the agenda
The Cogent Advisory Councils for Nuclear, Petroleum, Polymers and Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals have each held workshops to develop a Strategic Action Plan for their sector.

Cogent Skills Barometer set  for 2009 launch
Cogent has now developed the methodology, indicators and web-interface for its “Skills Barometer” Oracle Project.

New Apprenticeship Service sets out Cogent role
The new customer-facing National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) will be launched in April 2009.

Cogent attends UK’s biggest careers event
In November, the Cogent team joined over 54,000 people at the UK’s biggest interactive careers event, Skills London 2008.

What do graduates think?
Cogent is supporting Real Prospects 2009 –  a survey of the best graduate employers as rated by graduates.

Calling all materials scientists…
The Armourers and Brasiers’ Company is, through the Gauntlet Trust, one of the leading supporters of materials science education and research.

A relicensing thank you
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has recently started its audit of the SSC network as part of relicensing.