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- To make recommendations to the Board of Science, Engineering
and Manufacturing Technologies Alliance (SEMTA), Government, Devolved
Administrations and key agencies throughout the UK on policies
and priorities for improving skills and productivity.
- The Sector Strategy Group (SSG) will
- provide strategic leadership in the work of SEMTA and the sector
- drive delivery of the Sector Workforce Development Plan (SWDP)/targets
- enable/facilitate effective working to deliver the four key
Sector Skills Council (SSC) goals below
- raise critical issues that impact on the sector’s competitiveness
- be recognised as “bodies of influence”
- The SSG will contribute significantly to the review of SEMTA’s
SWDP.
- The SSG will agree regional targets for the SWDP and monitor
progress.
- The SSG will promote its strategy to the sector via various
media mediums.
- The SSG will receive regular reports from the Technical Working
Groups on issues such as education, learning supply, productivity
and skills development.
- The SSG will meet two/three times a year.
- The Chair of the SSG will become a member of the “Champions
Team” to engage more employers, particularly SMEs, in creative
lifelong learning activities.
- The four key goals of SSCs are to:
- reduce skills gaps and shortages and anticipate future needs,
through leverage on the supply side, and help employers and individuals
to make informed career and personal development choices
- improve productivity, business and public services performance
through specific strategic actions based on the analysis of sectoral
priorities
- increase opportunities to develop and improve the productivity
of everyone in the sector’s workforce, including action
to address equal opportunities
- improve learning supply, including the development of apprenticeships,
higher education and of national occupational standards
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