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Encocam 25 th Anniversary Event Manufacturing Trends and Government Approach. 19 April 2013 Caroline Jackson Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Manufacturing Trends. Manufacturing GVA % of total economy. Manufacturing is Changing. Manufacturing Output and Productivity.
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Encocam 25th Anniversary EventManufacturing Trends and Government Approach 19 April 2013 Caroline Jackson Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Manufacturing Trends Manufacturing GVA % of total economy
Manufacturing is Changing Manufacturing Output and Productivity
Government approach to the Economy Difficult economic climate
Support for Manufacturing Recent actions
Skills Engineering Skills shortage: Government working with industry to shore up the engineering skills pipeline. British employers currently face a workforce with insufficient skills which are critical to many industries of the future and to our international competitiveness. Project Team to report Summer 2013. Apprenticeship starts 2010/11 • Apprenticeships are at the centre of our workplace training offer, delivering job-related, transferable skills. • Focussing on improving quality of apprenticeships as well as quantity, including developing more higher level apprenticeships. • Support from key companies including Airbus, Shepherd Offshore and GM Vauxhall, who all stand to benefit from world class, nationally accredited training delivered in the workplace. • Apprenticeship starts in manufacturing and engineering in 2010/11 totalled 48,970 – up almost 30% on 2009/10 • Provisional figures for 2011/12 show there 57,000 Apprenticeship starts in manufacturing and engineering. University Technical Colleges Promoting STEM skills Apprenticeships
Image of Manufacturing A package of measures to help change perceptions of manufacturing. Made in Britain exhibitions focussing on success, capability and growth Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering launched 17 November 2011 First winners £1m bi-annual prize announced in March 2013 Make it in Great Britain Campaign an exhibition of the best of innovative British manufacturing held at the Science Museum summer 2012 See Inside Manufacturing initiative that encourages young people to consider a career in manufacturing.
Exports UK exporters account for 70% of business R&D.