Science Skills Alliance

The national voice for science skills, policy and workforce intelligence to strengthen life-sciences talent, productivity and sustainable growth UK.

Introducing the Science Skills Alliance

The Science Skills Alliance is the leading gateway for employers to shape the science skills agenda, access trusted workforce intelligence, and build the future of science-based industries. The Science Skills Alliance connects employers in life-sciences to insight, collaboration, and innovation that drives growth and sustainability.

Our purpose

The Science Skills Alliance was established to:

  • Provide a direct voice in National workforce policy, shape government decisions on apprenticeships, workforce funding, and skills standards.
  • Provide the sector with the most trusted science workforce intelligence through insight on labour market trends, emerging skills, policy shifts, and future demand.
  • Enable support developed with industry, for industry, including training, standards, CPD, talent attraction, and workforce planning tools built in partnership with employers.
  • Develop a national employer community with cross-sector networks for collaboration, shared solutions, and stronger collective influence.

What we deliver

The Nuclear Skills Alliance leads coordinated action across eight strategic priorities, delivering impact across the entire nuclear skills landscape:
  • Policy influence and representation - through consultations, ministerial roundtables, strategic working groups and trailblazer groups to shape apprenticeship standards and future skills investment.
  • Exclusive sector intelligence – via Labour market insight, policy briefings, and emerging skills trend analysis, plus evidence-based reports to inform long-term workforce strategy across the sector.
  • Influence national skills ecosystem by collaboration to shape a responsive skills ecosystem aligned with employer needs.
  • Workforce planning carried out through bespoke consultancy, workforce analysis, and strategic skills planning with employers in the Skills Alliance, education providers and government.
  • Working in close partnership with the Science Skills Alliance Advisory Group and Apprenticeship Strategy Group
  • Employer-led networks and communities leading on sector steering groups, roundtables, and collaborative initiatives.
  • Through thought-leadership opportunities, event speaking positions, case studies and co-branded initiatives, the Science Skills Alliance provides a visible and credible voice for employers across the sector and raises the profile of Life-Sciences as a subject in education and an agenda point on Government skills planning.

Being part of the Science Skills Alliance helps employers:

Make better workforce decisions through trusted intelligence
Influence national skills policy directly
Strengthen talent attraction and employer brand visibility
Improve workforce capability through quality-assured training and standards
Connect with peers to solve shared challenges
Demonstrate leadership across the UK science skills landscape
Employers leading change in science

Employers that are actively part of the Science Skills Alliance include:

Guided by Evidence, Backed by Industry

The Science Skills Alliance activities are guided by labour market intelligence, including the [LINK to any current SIP LMI or research papers] and funded through employer contributions. With a focus on collaboration. The alliance works in alignment with the science sector, ensuring every effort contributes to a skilled and sustainable workforce pipeline.

Cogent Skills and The Science Skills Alliance

Cogent Skills supports the Science Skills Alliance through collaboration and delivery as passionate advocates of skills, providing the one-voice to the sector and government on behalf of the Science Skills Alliance.

We are the sector owned and employer led skills specialist for the science industries that innovate, generate and make. Delivering sector-wide collaboration, data-driven insight, and skills solutions that build a stronger, safer, more sustainable future workforce.

The Cogent Skills Charity supports employers to work together collectively to achieve skills outcomes and impacts that are more than can be achieved individually - addressing issues where a ā€˜whole industry’ approach is required often due to market failure.

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