Industry Xchange, from the Proskills Academy, offers a range of best practice and innovation programmes comprising company visits and masterclass events that are tailored to the Process and Manufacturing Sector.
Join us and see how companies have reduced costs and improved their profitability. The host companies are deemed exemplary in their field, the visits address areas of key value to employers and each visit includes a site tour.
September 2011; exact date TBC
Next event date to be confirmed
UK employers seem to be failing to take advantage of one of the most proven tools of business sustainability.
Apprentices are the lifeblood of industry and yet only 130,000 companies offer apprenticeships.
Are UK employers as forward thinking as their global competitors when it comes to one of the most traditional routes to upskilling the workforce?
The new Government blames Labour for the changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment.
Instead of a scheme that was designed to introduce a gradual cultural change in business in terms of improving energy efficiency. we now essentially have the birth of a ‘Carbon Tax’ and that means increased costs to high energy users.
But can employers turn this around and starting using low carbon technology to their business advantage?
Johnson Tiles takes the title for Employer of the Year at Proskills UK Group 2010 Awards.
Sponsored by Mentor, this award rewards and acknowledges the commitment employers have made to training and up skilling their workforce.