UKCES offers £4m for manufacturers to target skills gap

Posted on 16 Jun 2014 by Callum Bentley

Manufacturing businesses across the UK are being offered co-investment to help develop new ways of boosting management skills in their sector, it was announced today.

A total of £4 million is available through the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), as part of an ongoing government-backed programme to encourage employer-led solutions to persistent skills problems. Nigel Whitehead, group managing director of BAE Systems and a commissioner at UKCES, explained: “Our research shows that the UK lags behind its international…

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