Filling the skills black hole
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Magazine Article, Source : The Manufacturer
Zone : Skills and productivity
Published : May 2008
The recently announced cut in highly skilled jobs at BAE Systems underlines the sheer paradox of Britain’s perennial skills crisis. Colin Chinery reports
In January BAE Systems’ first major advertising campaign for five years opened with the headline: “We train more skilled engineers in the UK than any other company.” Twelve weeks later skilled engineers became the majority casualties in a 600 job cut...
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