5 June 2013
National Occupational Standards (NOS) specify UK standards of performance that people are expected to achieve in their work, and the knowledge and skills they need to perform effectively. They are developed for and by industry / employers through Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) or other Standard Setting Bodies (SSBs).
In early 2013 a UK wide NOS Governance Group was set up to review the role and value of NOS in National qualification systems.
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3 June 2013
Food manufacturing skills council Improve and the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink are building an Industry Action Group for Welsh food firms to help spur increased business growth across the country.
Food manufacturing businesses in Wales currently generate £1.3billion in annual turnover and employ almost 20,000 people but research by Improve has highlighted a range of barriers to further growth and job creation.
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14 May 2013
Like you, we want your business to thrive. As one of 800 companies associated with food and drink manufacturing and processing in Wales, you’re helping contribute to £1.3billion of the nation’s annual business turnover and playing your part in providing jobs for almost 20,000 people.
Profitable growth isn’t just good for you; it’s good for your industry, good for your people and good for Wales.
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10 April 2013
The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils has announced that it has changed its name to the Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards to reflect its new ambitious agenda.
The Federation has also restructured its Board and appointed Brian Wisdom, CEO of People 1st, the sector skills council for hospitality, passenger transport, travel and tourism, as its new Chairman. In addition to Brian, the new Board is:
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4 April 2013
UK food and drink manufacturing businesses have been resilient in the face of continuing economic headwinds according to a unique new collation of official statistics gathered in a suite of new research reports from Improve, the skills body for the sector.
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15 March 2013
About the Speaker: Steve Pearce is a biochemist with over 30 years' sector experience globally and one of Europe's most acclaimed thought leaders and lecturers in food science. Steve's portfolio includes recreating "the smell of cleopatra's hair" as part of an international art project, "the smell of space" for a NASA astronaut training project, along with recent food and drink ingredient innovations including natural sweetners using monk fruit extract, "nut-free nut" flavours and cost-effective alternatives to natural vanillin.
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13 March 2013
Updated competence frameworks for Scotland’s Modern Apprenticeships in Food and Drink will be launched in April, Improve, the skills council for UK food and drink manufacturing, has announced.
The revamp reflects changes in industry working practices and business needs since the original framework for the Modern Apprenticeship in food and drink was first launched in 2007.
To mark the change, the revised frameworks will now be called the Modern Apprenticeships in Food and Drink Operations to reflect the broad nature of the industry.
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26 February 2013
The research division of Improve, the skills council for the UK’s food and drink manufacturing sector, has won a major commission to provide insight into future job and business prospects for the sector across the European Union.
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20 December 2012
EU Regulation 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing comes into force on 1 January 2013. Whilst most aspects of the EU Regulation apply immediately, some measures in relation to layout, construction and equipment in existing slaughterhouses do not come into effect until December 2019.
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19 December 2012
EU Regulation 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing comes into force on 1 January 2013. Most aspects of the EU Regulation apply immediately.
However, for existing slaughterhouses, some measures in relation to layout, construction and equipment in slaughterhouses do not come into effect until December 2019.
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