Research
As well as researching the skills needs across the whole UK, Proskills also produces individual reports and data for each of the Devolved Administrations. This helps to identify any specific skills-related issues for each Nation, as well as where there are skill needs that cut across different locations.
Proskills has produced the following reports, which deal specifically with Northern Ireland:
- The Proskills Sector Skills Assessment – Northern Ireland
Proskills has recently completed its full Sector Skills Assessment for Northern Ireland, which gives an overview of the Process and Manufacturing sector, and a summary of the current and future skills issues. It draws on a range of primary and secondary sources including the ABI, LFS, the UKCES Skills Almanac, Working Futures, and Proskills’ own surveys, including a major survey of employers and a survey of trade associations, both completed in 2009.
This document forms part of the core remit for Proskills as a Sector Skills Council as detailed in the UKCES
Information to Intelligence document.
- The Future of Manufacturing in Northern Ireland
This report, prepared by MRM Solutions for Proskills, gives an assessment of the likely drivers for the future of manufacturing in Northern Ireland
- The Sector Skills Agreement for the Proskills industries in Northern Ireland
The SSA process took place in 2005/6 and covered the five industries in the original Proskills footprint: building products, coatings, extractive and mineral processing, glass and related industries, and printing.
The following externally produced report also contains information relevant to the Proskills industries
- Northern Ireland Skills Monitoring Survey 2005
The report provides an overview of the issues connected with current vacancies, difficulties in filling vacancies, retention difficulties, skill shortages, skill gaps and training from an employer’s perspective. Analysis is provided at the level of broad SIC categories, i.e Mining and Quarrying, Manufacturing as a whole etc.
For more information on Proskills research activities across the whole sector, please click here