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1. 1. Cleanroom Technology - Current industry news and reports

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   Published on: 1/31/2008   Last Visited: 3/25/2008

   And, according to Craig Crowther, chief executive of the National Skills academy Process Industries, innovative ways of delivering this training have been considered.
   
   Speaking to Cleanroom Technology, he said: "The radical idea of creating a clean room training facility on the back of an articulated wagon, taking it around the country and conducting training from there, has been floated about in the past."
   
   He also pointed to the creation of apprenticeship programmes designed to equip school leavers with core skills to become laboratory technicians.
   
   "Our whole delivery model is based on having an established centre at Teesside University,' he said. ‘Our programmes will be delivered through a network of providers, and we will look for centres of excellence - be it in pharmaceuticals, in chemicals or in polymers right throughout the UK to achieve this."
   
   The process industry employs over 420,000 people in the UK and contributes £23bn in added value to the economy.The Academy is committed to training 1,000 people in its first year of operation.
   
   Crowther said: "The composition of this sector has changed greatly in the last 20 years, and 70% of its future workforce is currently in employment.
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   Duncan Bannatyne, left, Chris Banks (LSC), Craig Crowther (NSA Process Industries), Chris Horton (Linpac) and David Lammy MP

2. 2. Project Director for National Skills Academy for Process Industries Appointed

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   Published on: 1/25/2007   Last Visited: 2/7/2008

   Craig Crowther has been appointed as Project Director for the National Skills Academy Process Industries, which is made up of the chemicals, pharmaceuticals and polymer industries.Cogent Chief Executive Joanna Woolf said: "We are delighted that Craig is taking up this important role.
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   Craig is currently Organisational Development Manager for TTE Technical Training Group, an independent employer-led technical training and consultancy company, which delivers into the process industries.It is the largest of its type in the UK.He will join the Academy on secondment from TTE.
   
   The Academy will focus on employer-endorsed vocational learning with links into Higher Education and will consider the skills needs of both the existing and the future workforce.It will serve companies in chemicals, pharmaceuticals and polymers which combined have a turnover of £67.1 billion and a Gross Value Added in excess of £23 billion, which is over 15% of total UK manufacturing GVA.
   
   Craig will lead on the development of the Academy Business Plan, which will be put to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and DfES for ministerial approval, in May 2007.A formal announcement launching the Academy is expected in September 2007.The plan will set out the structure and delivery routes for the Academy and how it will be sustainable.It will also set out process employers' needs: for example the number of expected learners and how training supply will be accredited and delivered around the UK.
   
   Craig said:" Technology, science and chemistry underpin the success of these industries and employers need thousands of highly skilled and flexible scientists, engineers, production operatives, managers and leaders.With an ageing workforce and a decline in the number of technically trained people coming through the system, meeting this demand has become an imperative.
   
   "It is absolutely vital for our industries to be able to recruit, develop and retain people with the right competencies and skills to enable the sector to grow.The Academy is an essential project for the process industry in the UK."
   
   Prior to this appointment Craig spent his career in a number of senior strategic operations and HR roles including time with Northumbria Police and Thomas Swan Group.He has an MBA from the University of Durham Business School.

3. 3. secure.processengineering.co.uk

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   Published on: 1/25/2008   Last Visited: 1/25/2008

   Craig Crowther, chief executive of NatSAPI said the Academy has so far secured the support of employers representing more than 75,000 employees and is now seeking further support, especially amongst SMEs.Other priorities, he said, will be to increase the number of industry new entrants - from adults to young apprentices - to help satisfy employer demand and secure additional spend on sector training by employers and the UK government.
   
   "By working together we can shape the future of the process industries by ensuring young people are encouraged into a sector that offers fantastic career opportunities, help facilitate the skills accreditation of existing staff, and play a key role in establishing a new gold standard training framework that will become the de facto standard across all types of process industry organisations," said Crowther.