Above: Scarborough Engineering Week shows >1,500 Yorkshire school pupils demonstrations from engineering and manufacturing companies every October Credit: Scarborough Engineering Week anufacturing SMEs are the backbone of our economy. Yet they face an unprecedented skills challenge as they cannibalise each other’s workforces, trying to plug the gaps with not enough people in the pipeline, with […]
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Apprenticeships Levy: Benefit Or Burd...
Our industry traditionally recruits apprentices in line with academic years, with three-quarters of manufacturers typically recruiting candidates aged 16 to 18. APPRENTICESHIP STARTS IN THE UK, RECENT CHANGE Full year 2014/15 there were 74,060 manufacturing and engineering starts Full year 2015/16 there were 78,480 manufacturing and engineering starts In 2016/17 there were 74,010 manufacturing and […]
BAE SYSTEMS AND CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY ...
From March 2018, Cranfield will be launching an open postgraduate engineering apprenticeship programme enabling many more companies the opportunity to upskill their workforce using the Apprenticeship Levy. s part of the programme, a cohort of 76 engineers from BAE Systems will begin the academic element of their apprenticeship programme in January 2018. It is anticipated […]