Cogent Skills

As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready.
We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.

We offer a diverse range of market-leading skills services via the Cogent Skills name, from process safety and competency solutions in high-hazard industries to end to end apprenticeship services for some of the world’s leading science companies.

SIAS offers a market leading independent end-point assessment service for apprenticeships, whilst NSAN is the go to place for skills for organisations in the nuclear sector.

Our expertise in employer led facilitation enables us to support two industry leading skills groups, Nuclear Skills Strategy Group (NSSG) and The Science Industry Partnership (SIP).  Whilst our support for collaborative industry action on skills extends to initiatives such as the Petroleum Driver Passport Standards.

We are owned by the key Trade Associations from the science industries who actively support us in return for expertise and skills solutions that support the growth and development of skills in our sector.