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09.30 Registration and Coffee
10.00 Status of skills in the UK plastics Industry (Tony Pringle, Skills Director, Polymers, Cogent)
- What is Cogent?
- Where are skilled staff coming from and where are they going?
- In what numbers are skilled individuals entering the industry?
- Lifecycle / Career development
10.30 The development of Qualifications (James Murdock, Education Director, Cogent)
- Qualification Reform
- Developing Qualifications
- Apprenticeships, Gold Standard and Foundation Degrees
11.00 National Skills Academy - Process Industries (Craig Crowther, Chief Executive NSAPI)
- What is NSAPI?
- How will it help you?
- Where is training available?
- Polymer Clusters
- Accesing Givernment funding for training
11.30 Coffee and Networking Break
11.45 Polymer Training Ltd (Peter Smith, Managing Director PTL)
- What is Polymer Training Limited?
- What facilities are available?
- What training can be provided?
- E-Learning facilities offered
12.15 A Case Study in Successful Training Development (Richard Brown, Hi-Tech Moulding)
- An overview of how a leading plastics company has successfully implemented an internal training system.
12.45 Lunch and Networking
13.45 Buying in the skills (Conrad Taylor, Listgrove)
- The benefits of buying in skills over training
- Current trends in recruitment in the plastics industry
- Trends in the industry for foreign workers
14.15 Business Improvement Techniques (Chris Bayliss, PICME)
- Combining training and manufacturing improvement
- What does Business Improvement Techniques cover?
- How you can get Grant Funding?
14.45 The role the BPF’s Polymer University Group
- The role of universities in upgrading skills
- An overview of the courses and services provided by the leading Polymer Universities
- Polymer IRC (Leeds, Sheffield, Durham and Bradford)
- Loughborough (IPPTME)
- London Metropolitan
15.30 Question and Answer Session
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