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The National Skills Academy
About the National Skills Academy
Our vision is ‘to create a National Skills Academy for food and drink that will ensure the provision of learning and skills meets food and drink employers demands and contributes effectively to improving productivity and sector competitiveness’.
The National Skills Academy will aim to deliver new skills to at least 28,000 learners during its first four years.
An overview of food and drink manufacturing
The UK food and drink manufacturing industry is the largest UK manufacturing sector, the only growing manufacturing sector (£67bn in 2003 to £74bn in 2006) and second only to Canada in total global productivity. The industry is vital to the sustainability and competitiveness of the UK economy. But our position is under threat from Holland, Germany and France. Eastern Europe and even further a field. If we are to keep food and drink production in this country we need to increase the skills of the workforce. The new National Skills Academy will play an important part in our success.
For more information, please click here to visit the National Skills Academy for food and drink manufacturing website.
To download the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink brochure please click here.
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