With its doors opening later this year, Britain’s first regional Academy looks to offer tomorrow’s manufacturers a viable alternative to the traditional, jack of all trades curriculum. Edward Machin finds that digger maker JCB continues to do things a little differently…
I never let my school interfere with my education, quipped Mark Twain. Author of the Great American Novel, President-befriending socialite and amateur scientist, Twain was, however, yet to visit the JCB Academy. Had he done so, a man of his legendary capacity to invent would have found much to admire, for little about the Academy…
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