Nigel Brooksby

Delivering Impact; Achieving Growth

Agenda

Welcome and Introduction Nigel Brooksby

Report back from Working Groups Working Group Chairs

Table discussion Facilitated by Joanna Woolf

Feedback

Presentation from OLS Office of Life Sciences, BISand Questions

Thanks and Closure Nigel Brooksby

Attendees

David Adams Cogent SSCClare Bhunnoo Biotechnology and Biological Sciences

Research Council - BBSRCKaren Booth BISDavid Bowman Lilly UKNigel Brooksby Nigel BrooksbyMark Downs Society of BiologyLesley Earl Huntingdon Life SciencesLesley Galloway Ethical Medicines Industry GroupJim Gazzard The Royal Veterinary CollegeSarah Goulding HealthTech and Medicines KTNOwen Herbert Bristol Myers Squibb Ray Hodgkinson British Healthcare Trade AssociationJohn Holton Cogent SSCKate Hutchins Cogent SSCClaire Johnson European Bioinformatics InstituteSarah Jones Association of British Pharmaceutical

IndustryRachel Lambert-Forsyth Society of BiologyMark Lloyd Davies Janssen-Cilag LtdHilary MacQueen The Open UniversityAlison Mitchell VitaeMario Moustras Royal Society of ChemistryHelen Murray Cogent SSCCarl Naraynassamy Accovion LtdDaniel Norris City and Islington CollegeMartino Picardo Stevenage Bioscience CatalystShirley Price University of SurreyDarren Race SEMTACindy Rampersaud City and Islington CollegePat Saunders Department of HealthTina Sawyer Cogent SSCJean Scrase Gatsby Charitable FoundationMalcolm Skingle GlaxoSmithKline

Darren Spevick The RSA GroupRachel Stewart University of ReadingDavid Strickland NorgineHelen Thomas SEHTARhoswyn Walker Medical Research Council Joseph Wildy BioIndustry AssociationLinda Wilebore TEVAJoanna Woolf Cogent SSC

Apologies

Glenn Crocker Bio City NottinghamCornelia Dannmeyer Bristol Myers Squibb Sue Dilks Clinical Contract Research AssociationSteve Flatman LonzaMarie-Noelle Gagnon NovartisMaria Hall Bristol Myers Squibb Paul Hazell HEFCEJeremy Hinks University of SouthamptonJeremy Horton UKCESWendy Livingstone Forth Valley CollegeDaphne Lucas-Lee Bristol Myers Squibb Carolyn Mason SEMTAMadge Moore LantraJane O'Brien Lancaster UniversityJane Owen-Lynch Lancaster UniversityAntonis Papasolomontos BioIndustry AssociationDavid Parry SEHTAMaggie Pearson Department of HealthLiz Pridgeon LantraRichard Reece University of ManchesterCarol Richmond Belfast Metropolitan CollegeDaniel Sandford Smith Gatsby Charitable FoundationDaniel Smith HealthTech and Medicines KTNKevin Thrower National Skills Academy Process IndustriesStuart West Biocatalysts LtdDoris-Ann Williams British In Vitro Diagnostics AssociationSuzanne Wood EMIG

Our Commitment to the future

Key priorities are to:

• Offer a package of apprenticeship opportunities

• Encourage life sciences placements and the exchange of talent between academia and industry

• Design an interactive website with a number of new products including career pathways and

• Develop an offer for SME’s to develop business skills.

There are clear links between this work and the skills objectives outlined in OLS Report, Strategy for UK Life Sciences

• I hope that we can work closely together on developing all four strands of work with employers to improve the skills pipeline for Life

Apprenticeships - In summary

• A package of apprenticeships is on offer for the life sciences industry.

• This includes the laboratory apprenticeship at levels 2 and 3 (LATA) and a Higher Level Apprenticeship (HLA) including a Foundation Degree validated by Kent University at levels 4/5.

• Quintiles, Catalent and GSK are all supporting apprenticeships and taking part in the HLA pilot.

Placements - In summary

• Following some intense research with academia and industry we are developing a proposition for a ‘placements brokerage’.

• Early days but there is support within the Working Group chaired by GSK and attended by the Royal Veterinary College, Society of Biology, Surrey and Reading Universities and others.

• Need to test our findings, and decide whether this is a sustainable proposition

• A future GIF bid?

Skills Signals- In summary

• making good progress on defining career pathways for the sector.

• this is a sub-site and web application featuring a range of career pathways across four life sciences disciplines.

• users will be presented initially with a screen allowing them to make a selection based on their experience/qualifications.

• this will display the four industry areas.

• on selecting an area users will then be able to select individual roles and will be presented with possible pathways from each role.

• they will also be able to select and view detailed descriptions of each role within a pathway.

• site will easily link to the Youth Inspiration Platform and the Cabinet Office ‘I Am’ initiative to engage young people.

• together they will provide a comprehensive e-platform, relevant to the needs of young people and the economy.

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises’ (SMEs) – In Summary

• The first stage of this work has started working with Trade Organisations, Cluster Networks and employers across the sector to define their skills needs.

• In the second stage of our work with SME’s we are developing a proposition based around a Skills Audit, Master class and Mentoring Programme.

• The offer will include an audit of knowledge and skills at all levels within a company, defining the skills ‘gap’ and proposing skills solutions i.e. short courses of specific training, mentoring etc.

• Work in progress. After further consultation we will decide whether this is a sustainable proposition.

Cogent Life sciences Skills Report 2012

• the Cogent Life sciences Skills Report 2012. This will be presented to Ministers in April.

• Setting out the progress and achievements through the work of the LAC and LSSB and including the reports from the four Working Groups.

• It will give a complete history of the Life Sciences Initiative; and detail the objectives of the four Working Groups and their recommendations. It will be synergistic with the Strategy for UK Life sciences Report.

• An early draft will be shared with you all for your review and comments.

Life Sciences Skills Awards 2013

• Planning to host a Life sciences Skills Awards.

• This will be launched in the Autumn at the Cogent HoC Showcase event.

• These awards will celebrate the achievements of those who have exceeded expectations and shown a dynamic approach to training, demonstrated initiative and enterprise, innovation and creativity and shown an understanding and commitment to the improvement of skills development.

• They will be held in central London in May 2013.