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News Release from: The Manufacturing Institute
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2005
Scholarships combat skills shortages
North West UK manufacturers are being offered educational scholarships to combat the skills shortage that is a major threat to success in the sector.
North West UK manufacturers are being offered educational scholarships to combat the skills shortage that is a major threat to success in the sector The Manufacturing Institute is offering the region's manufacturing SMEs scholarship funding towards its Diploma in Manufacturing, a results-led, nationally recognised learning programme that is preparing the next generation of manufacturing champions
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Since 1996, more than 200 manufacturers have pursued the university approved programme - applying their learning to their factories to achieve hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of productivity improvements.
Recruitment for the part-time, two-year programme starting in October is underway, with funding made available by the DTI's Manufacturing Advisory Service as part of a package of measures to help raise skills and productivity within industry.
Says Dr Julie Madigan, Chief Executive of the Manufacturing Institute: "To withstand rising materials costs and ferocious global competition, North West manufacturers need to think smart and develop competitive advantage through the high level, innovative skills of their people".
"The diploma is a proven programme of educational excellence - using applied learning to champion business improvement in factories".
Senior industrialists from leading manufacturing companies, including Hewlett Packard, Jaguar, Unilever and Sun Microsystems, work alongside some of the UK's foremost university academics to deliver the programme.
The course offers a rare opportunity to share ideas with others, swap knowledge and benchmark with fellow manufacturers from a range of sectors.
Unlike many traditional academic programmes, the diploma offers an open-entry system for manufacturing personnel who have few formal qualifications but have the benefit of several years of practical experience behind them.
Their success is reflected by the fact that around 70% of graduates have subsequently gained promotion within their companies.
The diploma promotes the transfer of learning to the workplace from day one, with work-focused assignments, a major manufacturing improvement project and the mentorship programme ensuring that sponsor companies reap tangible business benefits.
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