Large firms preach virtues of higher skills investment to SMEs

Posted on 25 Oct 2012 by Tim Brown

Advanced manufacturing leaders from big UK companies today spoke to SME manufacturers at the House of Lords about the value that investing in developing higher-level skills can bring to their workplaces.

The event, hosted by sector skills council Semta, aimed to clarify how the skills landscape in the UK is evolving with the changing needs of industry. Richard Hamer, education director and head of early careers at BAE Systems, promoted the benefits of the advanced manufacturing and engineering higher apprenticeship, which has been developed to combine…

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