One Nucleus Gains Cogent Skills Provider Assurance Cambridge: 26 March 2015 One Nucleus is delighted to announce that the company has become a Cogent Skills Assured Provider specialising in the delivery of Workforce Development (Skills for Growth). This is an employer-devised training programme designed to enable sciencebased small businesses to develop their existing workforce. Cogent has an assured network of providers throughout the country who meet rigorous employer-led standards to ensure the highest quality provision is obtained. The assured network is aimed at ensuring high quality training across the entire science sector, promoting the availability of employer-backed training solutions, supporting new entrants into the sector, particularly through apprenticeships, and boosting skills transferability. As the business catalyst for life sciences, One Nucleus provides its members with an extensive training programme offering a range of courses designed to develop employees in the life science and healthcare sector. Harriet Fear, CEO of One Nucleus, commented “Here at One Nucleus we pride ourselves on providing the highest level of training to the sector. The formal recognition of us as an Assured Provider by Cogent Skills is a reflection of the quality of the training we provide via our specialist trainers”. Claire Green of Cogent Skills Provider Manager said, “We are delighted that One Nucleus is part of our Assured Provider network, delivering high quality training courses designed to help life science and healthcare companies build an experienced and cohesive workforce. We look forward to working together.” About Cogent Skills Cogent Skills supports science industry employers to attract, retain and develop people who can contribute to business success. We understand that recruiting new talent and ensuring you maximise the potential of your current workforce is key to your future success. We bring a holistic approach to addressing your people development challenges, using our employer-led Gold Standard benchmarking tools to unlock key insights into your organisation. The benefits to our approach include: Solutions tailored to your organisation’s skills needs – with a focus on science industry capabilities Improved performance through your people – through skills benchmarking against the Gold Standard A people development strategy that drives business performance – using key milestones We can also help you make the business case for skills. For further information please contact: Matthew Lowe Marketing Operations Manager Email: matthew.lowe@cogentskills.com About One Nucleus One Nucleus is an international membership organisation for life science and healthcare companies. We are based in Cambridge with the majority of our members across the Cambridge/London corridor – at the heart of Europe’s largest life science and healthcare cluster. Vision: For One Nucleus and our members to be the top European life science and healthcare network Mission: We will achieve this by maximising the global competitiveness of our members. For further information please contact: Harriet Fear Chief Executive Email: harriet@onenucleus.com Tel: +44 (0)1223 896450 www.onenucleus.com