Joanna Woolf, Chief Executive

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Skills for the 21st Century Process Industry

• Joanna Woolf, Chief Executive

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Cogent SSC

• Cogent is a Sector Skills Council
• Our role is to make sure that industry has the
  skills it needs to compete globally
• Process Industries including Chemicals, Polymers
  and Pharmaceuticals Nuclear Oil and Gas
  Petroleum

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The Process Industries

• Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Polymers
• Turnover 67 billion
• GVA 23.65 billion 15 of UK Manufacturing
• 10,760 businesses with 445,000 employees
• From global leaders to emerging SMEs
• Industries that are science based, chemistry
  using, technology driven and provide the building
  blocks for a modern economy.

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Industry in transition

• Towards higher-value
• Specialty Products
• Process and Product innovation

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Background UK Skills Review Lord Leitch

• Target 95 of adults achieve functional
  literacy/numeracy (up from 80 )
• Over 90 of adults qualified to level 2 (from
  69)
• Shift balance of intermediate skills from Level 2
  to level 3 (1.9 million additional level 3s)
• Over 40 adults qualified to Level 4 (up from
  29)
• Increase apprentices to 500,000

70 of 2020 working age population are already
over 16
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Skills the environment

• Government looking to raise the investment in the
  skills of the workforce
• World-class skills delivering World-Class
  performance
• Employers in the driving seat
• SSCs provide Employers with a voice

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Cogent SSA a reminder

• Strategic Issues
• Productivity of the existing workforce and the
  skills gap
• Management and leadership capability
• Attraction and Supply
• Business Improvement and innovation

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The skills gap in the Process Industry
c54,000 Level 2 gap
c54,000
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World Class Performance
Closing the skills gaps to world class levels of
performance would deliver an additional 1.5bn of
value to the Industry
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Supply Issues

• The 16 to 18 year old population will go into
  decline from 2007
• 4 increase of STEM graduates against an overall
  1st Degree increase of 42.
• There is a continuing decline in the uptake of
  vocational programmes important to the Process
  Industries.
• The Process Industry has an ageing population,
  15 over 55.
• Apprentice recruitment is very low.
• Demand is very high for technically experienced
  and qualified mature entrants.

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Skills Supply to the Process Industries
Current Picture Apprentice recruitment in the
low 100s per annum Graduate recruitment Mature
entrants (from other industries or across
industry)
Estimated Need Low 1,000s per annum 3,000
per annum 20,000 per annum
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Cogents Strategy Big Ticket Projects
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Careers and attraction
Check out our careers website www.cogent-careers.
com
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Apprenticeships
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Qualifications
NVQs
CURRENT QUALIFCATION PORTFOLIO
FoundationDegrees
Specialist Qualifications
New Areas for qualification development
Qualifications to be removed
Qualifications to be improved
Only qualifications industry need eligible for
funding
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Upskilling to the Gold Standard
HSEQ
Functional
Competence
Technical
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Upskill Modular based training

• Employees Want
• Recognition of Skills
• Access to training in the workplace

• Skills Card
• Safety
• Environment
• Technical Certificates
• Leadership Skills
• Competence

• Employers Want
• Recognition of work-based learning.
• Units/modules not NVQs

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Delivering the vision

National Skills Academies key to delivering the
Skills needed
COGENT
Oil Gas
Quality Assured Network of Providers
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Leadership on skills

• Cogent
• NSAPI
• Employers

Will work to make sure the skills systems meets
Industry needs Will work with companies and
local providers to stimulate development and make
sure training is available to meet company
needs Must commit to training and skills in
their work place and to attracting and developing
new entrants
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• THANK YOU