INDUSTRY NEWS
Scarborough could be the UK’s
companies in the area, notes one of the project’s key backers – world leading tube bending machine manufacturer and software provider Unison. Unison is well known in the local North Yorkshire economy for its work as founder and principal organiser of the annual Scarborough Engineering Week event for schoolchildren, and has campaign.
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“For as long as Unison has been in existence, we have struggled Executive Director of Unison Ltd “The same situation applies to virtually every other engineering company in this area. I know that most of our local engineering or more almost instantly, if we had a pool of local engineering groundwork to help realise this
I know that most of our local engineering by 10% or more almost instantly, if we had a pool of local engineering talent. The new UTC will lay the groundwork to help realise this ambition - bringing enormous opportunity to the area
he creation of a ‘University Technical College’ in Scarborough, will be of enormous
ambition - bringing enormous opportunity to the area.” year-olds with a focus on courses promoting careers in ‘STEM’ engineering and maths. It is students starting from September is a turning point in the economic development cycle when enough companies engaged in similar activities ‘cluster’ together. Their pool of skilled labour, and even helps to provide markets for each other’s goods. Reaching this ‘cluster’ concentration level is companies in the UK today, as a
lot of the country’s youngsters have shunned engineering careers be the catalyst that will help the Scarborough region to turn this situation around.
“Up to now, Scarborough alone has struggled to achieve the critical mass required to sustain itself as a successful regional centre for engineering,” he adds. “The Scarborough become a regional hotspot for technology companies - embracing communities from and beyond - helping existing employers to grow and attracting new businesses to set up in the local area.”
The annual Scarborough Engineering Week event, another
www.internationalmetaltube.com
Unison initiative, and now in its schoolchildren already registered to attend in October, has been an In a letter to Scarborough’s discussing this initiative, His Royal vacancies in the engineering professions this year, but only “It is of vital importance to this nation that we inspire our young people to become the engineers “That is why I am so heartened by Scarborough’s splendid initiative and I am most grateful to local and regional businesses for taking the time to provide an insight into also in the core skills of science, technology and mathematics which George Osborne, announced the creation of a further seven employers including Jaguar Land When fully recruited more than will be located in Scarborough, information:
www.utcolleges.org
More information on Unison Ltd t: +44 (0)1723 582868
enquiries@unisonltd.com www.unisonltd.com
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