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News Release from: The Manufacturing Institute | Subject: Diploma in Manufacturing
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2005
NW UK manufacturers offered scholarships
The UK's north-west 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 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
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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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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