New Semta statistics show the requirement for highly skilled workers in manufacturing is increasing and the sector skills council has urged employers to establish apprenticeship programmes to fulfil this need.
Research from Semta, the sector skills council for science, engineering and manufacturing, predicts a need for 96,300 engineers, scientists and technologists a year between now and 2016. These vacancies are expected to appear as a result of business growth, despite the poor PMI figures in August. Even allowing for the recent abolition of the default…
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