All Skills


Guide to the new Agency Workers Regulations

Added: 6 Jun 2011

Colchester, UK – Anyone working through a recruitment agency, who is under the direct supervision a…

RWE Dea wins family-friendly award

Added: 2 Jun 2011

Berlin – RWE Dea AG, Hamburg, was once again awarded the certificate for the “audit berufundfamilie…

Bayer names 'Factory of the Future' boss

Added: 20 May 2011

Leverkusen, Germany – Dr. Thomas Bieringer is to take over as managing director of the INVITE GmbH …

Scotland highlights carbon capture jobs potential

Added: 18 May 2011

Edinburgh, Scotland – Over 5,000 people could be employed on the construction and operation of thre…

Graduate interns benefit Guttridge

Added: 13 May 2011

Spalding, UK – Three graduate interns have provided Spalding-based Guttridge Ltd with extra resourc…

PSM is deemed by the HSE to be a ‘hot topic’ for high-hazard sites

Process safety benchmarking is a first

Added: 11 May 2011

Dr Julian Hought of HFL Risk Services reveals the results of the chemical industry’s first ever pro…

Interns

Added: 1 May 2011

Well done to machinery maker Guttridge – and to the graduates involved – on the launch of its inter…

Cogent strikes chemicals 'gold' in Europe

Added: 28 Apr 2011

Brussels – The European Chemical Employers Group (ECEG) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy …

Babcock, Strathclyde University in two-way secondment deal

Added: 5 Apr 2011

Strathclyde, UK – The University of Strathclyde and Babcock International Group plc have signed a t…

Skills shortages could halt North Sea oil & gas boom

Added: 17 Mar 2011

London – Skills shortages could limit the ability of North Sea companies to exploit an anticipated …

Cogent targets new skills funding

Added: 17 Mar 2011

London –Cogent is highlight the availabilty of a new UK government funding package to support skill…

AMEC wins ECITB project management competition

Added: 10 Mar 2011

London – A team of graduates and trainees from AMEC’s Power & Process Europe(PPE) business has won …

Chemical sector apprentices tell it like it is

Added: 11 Feb 2011

London – At a recent meeting of the Chemical Industry All Party Parliamentary Group, industry appre…

Process sector reaction to UK government's Comprehensive Spending Review

Added: 26 Oct 2010

Environment:

Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA):

The 2010 Spending Review se…

New chair for National Skills Academy Process Industries

Added: 25 Oct 2010

London – The National Skills Academy for the Process Industries has appointed Allan Laing, chief ex…

Welsh power plant project sparks immigrant pay row

Added: 15 Oct 2010


London – The GMB trade union is seeking to recover over £10,000 each for 16 Polish migrant workers,…

British Energy actuates training at nuclear plants

Added: 15 Oct 2010

Bristol, UK – British Energy, part of EDF Energy, has installed over 400 AUMA actuators at a number…

Working higher

Added: 3 Sep 2010

A consortium of sector skills councils, universities and ’industry champions’ is working with emplo…

Skills Academy, chemicals industry link to improve process safety management

Added: 17 Aug 2010

London – The National Skills Academy Process Industries and the Chemical Industries Association (CI…

Apprenticeships paying off in chemicals industries

Added: 9 Feb 2010

London – The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is highlighting how apprenticeships have had a c…