Welcome to TechLife 2020

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

TechLife 2020: Agenda (am)

AGENDA

10:00 Registration and refreshments

10:20 Welcome Joanna WoolfCogent

10:30 The role of the Technician Council David OzhollThe Technician Council

10:45 Life Sciences: Technical skills in perspective

Caroline SudworthCogent

11:00 Employer technician training: The Novartis model

Emma BuddNovartis

11:20 Workshop 1: What are your technician needs?

Caroline SudworthCogent

11:55 Feedback

12:15 Lunch

TechLife 2020: Agenda (pm)

Lunch

13.15 Potential models for training Charles PickfordFoundation Degree Forward

13.30 Developing the right content and delivery methods

Helen ThomasWorking Higher (Bioscience)

13:45 Workshop 2: Your ideal supply and delivery models

Helen Thomas Working Higher (Bioscience)

14:15 Feedback

14:30 Workshop 3: How can we help you with funding and administration?

Pauline MadenCogent

14:45 Feedback

14:55 Refreshments

15:10 Workshop 4: What are the next steps?

Caroline SudworthCogent

15:45 Feedback

16:05 Setting your priorities All

16:25 Thank you Joanna WoolfCogent

16.30 Close

Welcome to TechLife 2020

Joanna WoolfCEO

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

The Role of the Technician Council

David Ozholl

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Life Sciences: Technical Skills in Perspective

Caroline SudworthProject Lead

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

BioVision: The BioEconomy

BioVision; October 2010

Skills Vision for UK Life Sciences and Biotechnology

Proposed Growth Sectors (OECD 2009)

From R&D to Commercialisation

The Skills Demographic

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Managers

Professional

Associate Professional and Technical

Administrative and Secretarial

Skilled Trades

Sales and Customer Service

Process, Plant and Machine

Elementary

S/NVQ 4 + S/NVQ 3 SNVQ 2 S/NVQ 1 and below

Overview: Skills Needs

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Technical, practical or job-specific skills

Management skills

Problem solving skills

Team working skills

Pharma

Cogent

UK

The Life Science Sector: A problem with age?

5%

20%

40%

25%

10%9%

22%

30%

14%17% 18%

20% 19% 20%

6%

1%

27%

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10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

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45%

16-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+

Age Bands

Pharmaceuticals

Cogent

UK

Technician Training

The Life Science Sector: A problem with technical skills?

Dr Aileen Allsop (AZ) Chairman of the ABPI Skills Taskforce and the Bioscience Sector Skills Group said “Employers find the landscape of biology-based degrees bewildering. There is tremendous variation of course content even within defined biological disciplines and a challenge to identify graduates with the appropriate practical experience and mathematical skills to support a career in research. Accreditation will identify students who have the appropriate  background, skills and interest.”  

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In Depth: Technical Skills*&

Laboratory Skills• Understanding of basic experimental design, observation, recording, and testing hypotheses.• Ability to plan and conduct a scientific experiment with appropriate controls and analysis of data.• Demonstration of good, safe laboratory practice, including an understanding of Good Laboratory Practice, standard operating procedures

and the impact of health and safety in the laboratory environment (and environmental issues).• Basic practical laboratory procedures (setting up equipment, use of pipettes, serial dilutions, basic chromatography and basic chemistry

skills).• Exposure to molecular biology procedures (such as tissue culture and collection, aseptic techniques).• Experience of the handling of live organisms and dissection of organs.

Research Methods, Mathematical and Data Handling Skills• Application of scientific and mathematical knowledge in designing experiments and interpreting results. • Ability to accurately observe and record data (including understanding of the importance of accuracy over speed).• Recognition of the integrity of data gathered.• Ability to bring aspects of an experiment together.• Understanding of how errors arise (including use of error bars).• Critical analysis of their results.• Independent and confident interpretation and assessment of scientific experiments.• Critical thinking skills and being able to dispute scientific procedures, data sets and other people’s work.• Basic report writing and accurate record keeping. • Data and text mining skills.

Project/Functional and Behavioural Skills• Problem solving skills, for example independently solving difficulties encountered in the lab.• Ability to develop a project plan and be able to use it as a communication tool.• Know how and when to use IT; including Word, Excel (use of spreadsheets for computer modelling), data capture devices, search engines

(to effectively research scientific literature).• Communication and interpersonal skills.• Team working, collaboration and problem solving.• Independent working.

* ABPI Skills Needs for Biomedical Research, October 2008&The Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Subject Centres have compiled 'Student Employability Profiles’ in collaboration with the Council for Industry and Higher Education

What more can we do to help?

• Addressing employer needs– Understanding practical skills needs– Understanding employer/ee delivery needs

• Managing Expectations– Industry and employee expectations– Increase industry engagement with providers

• Employer/ees accessing and working with providers– Simple access routes to relevant training– Accreditation of in-house training

Thank You

Contact:caroline.sudworth@cogent-ssc.com

More information:www.cogent-ssc.com/Higher_level_skills/techlife2020_index.php

Technician Training: The Novartis Experience

Emma Budd

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Workshop 1: Your Technician Needs

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Your Need for Technicians

• Is there a problem?

• What exists already?

• What works, what doesn’t?

• Buy-in to long term strategy?

Potential Models for Training

Charles PickfordFoundation Degree Forward

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Curriculum and Delivery Mechanisms

Helen ThomasWorking Higher – Bioscience

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Workshop 2: Supply and Delivery

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Delivery Pathways for Training

• What suits your business best?– In-house training accreditation– Flexible delivery models– Preferred providers

• What are the key areas?– Skills, knowledge and understanding– Techniques

• Core and Sector Specific Needs

Workshop 3: Funding and Administration

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Helping you through funding and administration

• Will better access to student finance increase demand from learners within the workplace?

• In what ways would you be willing to make a contribution?

– Support with fees

– Curriculum development

– Delivery

• How can we support SMEs with less capacity/resources to contribute?

• What do you perceive to be key drivers for a successful funding model?

• What are your experiences of existing apprenticeship frameworks?

Workshop three

• In what ways would you be willing to make a contribution?– Support with fees– Curriculum development– Delivery

• What are the entry requirements? How do we attract the right people?

Workshop 4: The Next Steps

Cogent Sector Skills Council Limited

Help us set your priorities

Attraction of New Recruits

Minimising Risk Collaboration

Sector Specific Technical Skills

Core Curriculum

Accreditation of in house training

Funding

Thank You

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