Skills

Teaching professionals and careers advisors will take the first steps to ‘See Inside Manufacturing’ this month, when automotive companies across the UK open their doors to demonstrate the extensive and diverse range of careers and skills opportunities available to young people.

Government welcomes the Committee’s broad support for the creation of LEPs and believes that local communities and businesses are in the best position to understand and respond to the opportunities and needs of their own economies, and that creating LEPs will allow them to do this.

Government have produced a prospectus setting out how eligible organisations can apply to the investment element of GIF, with employer-led proposals to raise skill levels and business performance.

SMMT and its partners, the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) and Semta – the sector skills councils for the automotive retail and manufacturing industries – are progressing with the development of an industry-wide electric vehicle (EV) qualification and accreditation scheme announced in May 2010.

A leading economic think tank has highlighted the importance of encouraging private sector research and development (R&D) and has said that improving the availability of finance will be crucial to sustaining the recovery and rebalancing of the UK economy.

The UK motor industry has urged chancellor George Osborne to consider the significant economic contribution made by industry when he makes tough decisions in the Comprehensive Spending Review, set to be published on 20 October.

SMMT President and Ford of Britain chairman, Joe Greenwell has spoken of his optimism for the future of the UK motor industry

SMMT welcomes the news that the IMI has been relicensed as the Sector Skills Council for the automotive retail sector

The Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award is seeking to attract young talent into the automotive industry.

NAIGT was established in April 2008 with the task of developing a 20 year vision for the future of the UK automotive industry and to make recommendations on how to achieve this vision.