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Rolls-Royce engineer Alexia Williams honoured with an MBE

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Inside manufacturing’s new workforce era

Make UK calls for Skills Investment Pledge to reverse plummeting apprenticeship numbers

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Government unveils technical education overhaul to strengthen manufacturing skills pipeline

Business Culture can be your Achilles heel or your competitive advantage.

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Manufacturing industry-ready graduates

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Women in manufacturing: A common-sense way of closing the skills gap

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Helping manufacturers win the fight for talent

Young people profess to have the very skills that most businesses say they need to improve - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

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Business must work harder to be ready for young people

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UK manufacturers demand clarity over skills post-Brexit

More than 80% of hard-to-fill positions in the tech industry are difficult to recruit for because of skills shortage - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

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Growing young talent in ways that suit them makes excellent business sense

Muzakkir ‘Muz’ Hussain, a press shop production operative Level 2 apprentice, who started his employment with Unipres in September 2017. Shown here with tutor/assessor Steve Simm, a press shop specialist. The equipment they are using is a simulator for a transfer press finger jig. Muz is learning how to set the position of the fingers, an essential skill for processing panels of steel within the various production presses.

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Staring at a skills gap? Fill it!

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Attracting, retaining & retraining engineering talent

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The importance of getting children aged 4-11 to ‘tinker’

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What is the number one challenge facing UK manufacturing?

The key challenge for the business moving forward is demonstrating that its system is more reliable, safer and delivers long-term benefits – image courtesy of Iceotope.

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New engineering uni to tackle UK industry’s gender imbalance