UK skills shortage: Can you teach an old industry new tricks?

Posted on 4 Dec 2018 by The Manufacturer

Barclays' Head of Manufacturing may be relatively new to the sector, but Helena Sans has very quickly learnt that skills is one of the biggest issues facing UK businesses.

Less than 20% of parents would encourage their children to work in industry, believing manufacturing to be dirty, monotonous, low skilled and poorly paid. There may not be a shortage of expressions regularly employed to describe the UK skills shortage – skills gap, talent deficit, brain drain; but there is most…

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