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Life Sciences Advisory Council

Life Sciences Advisory Council. Cogent Funded Projects in Life Sciences John Holton. Cogent Projects and Proposals. Future funding is based on a contestable model; must be supported by employers and sustainable Employer Investment Fund - round 1 Life Sciences SME Skills

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Life Sciences Advisory Council

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  1. Life Sciences Advisory Council Cogent Funded Projects in Life Sciences John Holton

  2. Cogent Projects and Proposals Future funding is based on a contestable model; must be supported by employers and sustainable • Employer Investment Fund - round 1 • Life Sciences SME Skills • Growth and Innovation Fund - round 1 • Apprenticeship Training Agency • Life Sciences Skills Pathways • SME Offer • Employer Investment Fund - round 2 (proposal) • Mobilising Life Science Skills for Growth • Growth and Innovation Fund - round 2 • Partnership opportunities??

  3. Employer Investment Fund - round 1 Life Sciences SME Skills • Telephone campaign on SME training needs • 7 workshops with multiplier organisations • Association of British Healthcare Industries; • NE Process Industries Cluster; • Bio Industry Association; • Ethical Medicines Industry Group and • One Nucleus(East, NW & London) • Mapping competencies to job roles • 5 technical assessments with SMEs • Identify & map training to SME competency framework • Produce a report on findings

  4. Growth & Innovation Fund – round 1 • Apprenticeship Training Agency • manage an employer engagement process • manage a recruitment and placement service • engage and assure appropriate apprenticeship training providers • enable a total of 510 apprentices from Level 2 to Level 5 to take up training and employment by year 3 • Life Sciences Skills Pathways • Higher Level Apprenticeships • Career Pathways • Technician Training and Professionalisation • Graduate Employability Rating • SME Offer • develop an online skills assurance process • develop an on-line shop linked to the skills assurance process • raise the ambition of SME employees to invest in their skills development

  5. Employer Investment Fund - round 2 (proposal) Mobilising Life Science Skills for Growth • Employer Fora • employer-led for leadership, partnership and delivery of the Life Sciences Action Plan • Skills Gateway • the Skills for Life Sciences Gateway as the ‘window on the world’ of life sciences and to engage widely the community of employers and stakeholders • to promote and accelerate skills solutions, products and services, especially the large high-tech SME population • Market Testing • to stimulate business intelligence and inform the sustainability of bespoke interventions and future GIF/EIF submissions by industry-led action groups • Strategic Research • employer reviewed publications of labour market research and future skills scenarios (in collaboration with professional bodies and others) for the employment needs for growth in life sciences and its education and training provision

  6. Growth and Innovation Fund - round 2 • Opportunity for joint proposal with partners? • the Society of Biology • broaden accreditation of provision • develop new provision • Other suggestions?

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