About the Skills Academy
The National Skills Academy for Nuclear has been established at the request of Nuclear employers to address the key skills and training challenges facing the Nuclear industry. The Skills Academy will ensure the sector has a skilled workforce that can operate safely and effectively, and can also meet the future demands of this rapidly changing industry.
The vision of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear is;
“To create, develop and promote world class skills and career pathways to support a sustainable future for the UK nuclear industry.”
What will Skills Academy do?
The Skills Academy will play a transformational role for the sector. The changing skills mix required by the nuclear sector, demands increased flexibility and mobility. As the transition from operating, to decommissioning, through to new build takes place, a flow of matching skills are required. The National Skills Academy for Nuclear will address these needs by…
- Developing a portfolio of solutions and products focusing primarily on addressing the acute gap in technical and vocational skills.
- Developing transferability and common standards through the Skills Passport and the National Occupational Standards. This standardisation will enable a portability of employment between SLC sites, which will help to address the peaks and troughs of work/demand across the industry.
- Increase the return on training investment by employers by co-ordinating and quality assuring the provision on offer.
- Encouraging the continuing delivery of Foundation Degrees and supporting the development of a scheme to convert Foundation Degrees to Honours Degrees.
- Working with schools via the Energy Foresight Programme and other partners to increase the number of young people studying STEM subjects.
- Working with Cogent SSC on the Career Pathways, the Trade Unions Aim Higher project (to help colleagues know more about opportunities in further and higher education) and the Nuclear Industry Training Framework (NITF). This will create a clear pathway visible to employees within the Nuclear Industry and potential employees outside of the industry can see how their futures may be structured.
- Working with University partners (through a lead Higher Education Institution) to develop new Higher Level provision to enable onward progression.
The Skills Academy is currently in its second year of operation. For further information on what the Skills Academy intends to achieve in its second year, download the 2009 Operational Plan below.
