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SummitSkills Keith Marshall CEO. Engineering UK Education and Skills Panel 18 October 2012. SummitSkills. The Sector Skills Council for Building Services Engineering Plumbing Electrotechnical Heating & Ventilating Refrigeration & Air Conditioning 61,000 businesses employing
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SummitSkillsKeith MarshallCEO Engineering UK Education and Skills Panel 18 October 2012
SummitSkills The Sector Skills Council for Building Services Engineering • Plumbing • Electrotechnical • Heating & Ventilating • Refrigeration & Air Conditioning • 61,000 businesses employing • 613,000 people and contributing • £20 billion per annum to the UK economy
SummitSkills Led by employers and licensed by government to: • Help increase employer investment in skills to • Drive enterprise • Create jobs and • Create sustainable growth
SummitSkills Board of 12 trustees and Strategic Advisory Groups covering: • Mechanical industries • Electrotechnical industries • Manufacturers • Careers & diversity and • Professional Bodies Forum • 12 regions and nations employers’ groups ensuring • Employer led guidance and feedback on skills issues for • The sector, industries in the sector, nations and regions.
SummitSkills What do we do? • Identify skills issues – research, employer groups • Develop solutions – with employers, usually within funded frameworks • Deliver solutions – working in partnership with AOs, colleges, HE, private providers • Represent employers’ views to government
SummitSkills National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies • Delivery • Awareness, Solar thermal, solar photovoltaic,rainwater harvesting, heat pumps .... • Quality assured provision • Based on QCF units • Hub and spoke model – 12 hubs and 68 spokes
SummitSkills Funding • From core funding to contestable • EIF • GIF • Employer Ownership • Revenue generation • Employer contribution • NSAET – setup support then commercial
SummitSkills The Future • Political environment • Fewer larger SSCs • Green issues are key – Green Deal, RHI • Continuing infrastructure – NOS, quals, frameworks • Reflect emerging business models • Challenging economic conditions – profile of the sector
SummitSkills Work with Engineering UK • Cooperation not competition • Continuum from apprentice to chartered engineer • STEM promotion • IAG
SummitSkills www.summitskills.org.uk