Mixing up the ingredients in the skills pot

The recent release of government’s national skills strategy ‘Skills for Growth’ provided the latest in a long line of calls for a more married up approach to skills provision which would see educators work with industry to provide ‘real world’ skills rather than token qualifications. The food and drink industry believes it is leading in this regard. Mark Young explores
March 2010

Engineering success - the JCB Academy

With its doors opening later this year, Britain’s first regional Academy looks to offer tomorrow’s manufacturers a viable alternative to the traditional, jack of all trades curriculum. Edward Machin finds that digger maker JCB continues to do things a little differently…
01 Feb 2010

Tackling an ambitious training programme

Part of the Hepco Group, Devon-based HepcoMotion was founded in 1969 and is a leading UK manufacturer of linear motion products used in everything from production lines to medical scanners.
February 2010

Skills for growth

In November 2009, the Government released the latest National Skills Strategy which it says will provide Britain with the talents to take advantage of global opportunities in the economic recovery. Mark Young weighs up the reactions from some key industry commentators.
January 2010

Ready to recruit

A more positive economic outlook is now a key message from financial forecasters. But to what extent have these indicators of improvement been boosted by government stimulus and, assuming that the recovery continues, when will it manifest itself as higher employment? Tim Brown examines how and when green shoots translate into recruitment patterns.
01 Dec 2009

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Scoring for skills

Failure is not an option. Bob Gibbon, managing director of the new National Skills Academy for Manufacturing tells Colin Chinery that learning must be linked directly to world-beating business performance
July 2007

The power of people

WMG is a world-class research and education provider. Stuart Barnes, director of professional programmes talked to Jayne Flannery about realising the latent potential of any company’s greatest asset: its people
01 Mar 2008

The big issue

Andrew Churchill, managing director of JJ Churchill, highlights that it is not the threat of overseas competition that threatens manufacturers as much as neglect of the vital skill base on which they depend
January 2008

Out of sight...

...Should not mean out of mind. A structured approach to managing absenteeism can save large amounts of money and improve employee morale and productivity, according to Mike Cochrane of consultancy, Absence Management Ltd.
November 2007

A change of scenery

Chris Riley told Ruari McCallion about investment, changes in focus and expansion into new markets at Rimor’s engineering division
April 2007

The leaner sausage

Communication and training are high on the agenda at Kerry Foods as it starts its lean journey. Robert Pols heard the details from Jim Sands and David Hinsley
April 2007

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