UK manufacturing: The past and its grip on our future

Posted on 13 Feb 2018 by Jonny Williamson

As EngineeringUK says, we need to find 20,000 more engineers a year between now and 2025. Nick Peters wonders if the story of a vibrant manufacturing sector of today is being drowned by a cultural narrative of despair that we must shake if we are to succeed.

Modern manufacturing is far removed from the darkness of those soot-encrusted days of yore – image courtesy of AMRC. The premiere of the new BBC series Collateral last night (12 Feb 2018) prompted this morning’s Guardian to discuss great ‘state of the nation’ dramas of recent decades. You know, the ones that contain a…

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