IUA Skills Data Digest

Nora Trench Bowles, IUA Head of Lifelong Learning, Skills and Quality, leads a series of lunchtime webinars, specifically developed for colleagues in IUA member universities, where authors of key publications and data from the national skills architecture will be invited to present and make themselves available for Q&A.

If you have any question or would like to join the next webinar in this series please email Nora Trench Bowles at nora@iua.ie.

Watch the playback: Session 2

‘Skills for Biopharma – Researching and forecasting the current and future skills needs of the Biopharma sector in Ireland to 2027′ report

Nora Trench Bowles, IUA Head of Lifelong Learning, Skills and Quality, held the second IUA Skills Data Digest webinar on Tuesday 21st May 2024. This session focuses on ‘Skills for Biopharma – Researching and forecasting the current and future skills needs of the Biopharma sector in Ireland to 2027’ report, recently published by the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN).

We were joined by Marcus Breathnach (Head of Secretariat), Don O’Connor (Project Manager) and Rhodri Lloyd from the EGFSN Secretariat in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, who each delivered a short presentation.

Access the reports: https://www.skillsireland.ie/all-publications/2024/skills-for-biopharma.html

Click here to view the slides: EGFSN-Biopharma-May-2024


Watch the playback: Session 1

National Skills Bulletin & Monitoring Ireland’s Skills Supply 2023 reports

Nora Trench Bowles, IUA Head of Lifelong Learning, Skills and Quality, hosted the first IUA Skills Data Digest webinar on Monday, 29 April 2024. In this webinar, we were joined by the authors of the National Skills Bulletin and Monitoring Ireland’s Skills Supply 2023 reports, Nora Condon and Fiona Daly from SOLAS Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (SLMRU), who delivered short presentations, followed by Q&A.

Access the reports: https://www.solas.ie/research-lp/skills-labour-market-research-slmru/research/

Click here to view the slides: SLMRU presentation