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Current and Future Skill Needs
Regional Skills Partnerships in a Global
Economy Conference
23 June 2005
Reg D’Souza
SEMTA
Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and
Manufacturing Technologies
14 Upton Road, Watford, Herts, UK WD18 0JT
Tel: 01923 652308
email: [email protected]
Outline
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Role of SSCs
SSA pathfinder report
Priority skills issues from the SSA
Future skills requirements
SSCs and RSPs
Challenges for RSPs
Role of SSCs
Four key SSC goals:
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Improve productivity, business and public service
performance.
Increase opportunities to raise the skills and
productivity of everyone in the sector.
Improve learning supply, including Apprenticeships,
Higher Educational and National Occupational
Standards (NOS).
Reducing skill gaps and shortages and anticipating
future needs.
SSA pathfinder report
• SEMTA covers 13 broad sub-sectors
• Pathfinder report covers Electronics, Automotive
and Aerospace
• Marine and Bioscience reports are in progress
SSA content
The SSA has 5 components:
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Assessment of current and future skill needs
Assessment of current provision
Analysis of the gaps and weaknesses
An assessment of the scope for collaborative action
by employers
Developing a costed action plan
Drivers of change affecting skills
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Rapid technological change
Product life cycles
Globalisation of the supply chain
Intensification of competition
Regulation
All of the above have led to increased demand
for higher-level skills.
Issues contributing most
to the productivity gap
UK compared to US:
Working practices such as Lean manufacturing and
High Performance Working.
UK compared to France and Germany:
Mainly due to skills, innovation and investment.
Priority skill issues
• Management and Leadership
• Productivity and Competitiveness
• Recruitment and Workforce Development
Management and Leadership
• Team leaders and front line supervisors,
competent in high performance working.
• Managers need upskilling in commercialisation,
financial management, lean principles and
workforce development.
• Engineering and science graduates lack
employability skills and need work experience
Productivity and Competitiveness
• New product and process development and
implementation (NPPDI)
• Supply chain management
• Continuous improvement and Lean/Process
Excellence
Recruitment and Workforce Development
Increasing the supply of skills at N/SVQ Levels 3, 4
and 5 by upskilling and recruitment of under
represented groups
This will allow engineering to:
• meet the need to move to higher value products
to remain globally competitive
• counter the low levels of young people coming
into the engineering sector
Future skills requirements
• Professional engineering skills– greater demand to meet
requirements for NPPDI, supply chain management,
lean/process excellence and management and leadership
skills
• Technician and craft level technical and practical skills greater demand to meet need for higher value added
processes
• Operator and assembler skills – less demand due to
increased automation and changing technologies
• Basic skills – greater demand for basic literacy and
numeracy skills to upskill the workforce to deliver globally
competitive work practices
Supply side issues
• The quality and capability of recruits into the
sector
• Provision
• Key barriers to training and development
• Information, Advice and Guidance
SSCs and RSPs
SEMTA is working with West Midlands RSP:
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input into RSP data group
response to Leitch review
manufacturing skills profile
learning and skills balance sheet
Challenges for RSPs
• Using a data driven approach
• Align and integrate training supply with
employer demand
• Ensure employers understand their future
skills needs