Pharmaceutical staff must ‘upskill or be left behind’

UPSKILL or be left behind — that’s the challenge to thousands of workers in the high-tech pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector as Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) prepares to launch a range of specially tailored courses.

A week-long newspaper advertising campaign and a special information evening will be run at the end of August to showcase two programmes to the sector’s Cork workforce of up to 20,000 employees.

The Bachelor of Business in First Line Management, now in its first post-pilot phase, and an extended version of the Higher Certificate in Science in Good Manufacturing Practice and Technology will be on offer either at the college or on-site at the workplace, from mid to late September.