Unipart boss issues industrial skills call to arms

Posted on 25 Jan 2017 by Jonny Williamson

The boss of one of the UK’s leading manufacturers, Unipart Manufacturing Group, believes UK manufacturing needs to do more to develop its own pipeline of talent if it is to boost productivity.

Unipart Manufacturing Group’s Carol Burke is urging firms to follow its lead and find innovative new ways of addressing the nation’s long-standing skills shortage, including getting more graduate engineers coming through the ranks and looking at how they embrace apprenticeship degrees. The managing director believes dwindling government funding and the lack of a cohesive approach…

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