Apprenticeships have been touted as having a key role in our skills strategy, but some companies say a sense of apathy towards manufacturing continues to hamper progress in attracting young people into industry. Mark Young investigates the problems and uncovers some initiatives in action that are providing solutions.
Skills gaps are rife throughout many areas of manufacturing; in the advanced and emerging industries, around which the UK wants to centre it’s ‘new economy’, they are in severe deficit. The situation looks set only to get worse as an ageing work force fetches its pipe and slippers throughout this decade. The Government thinks apprenticeships…
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