Citation
(2005), "Rolls-Royce win education award", Education + Training, Vol. 47 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2005.00447gab.009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Rolls-Royce win education award
Midlands school children have helped choose Rolls-Royce as the best manufacturing company in the UK for working in partnership with schools and colleges. The school students were particularly impressed by the efforts the company were making to generate interest in engineering.
The Manufacturing Excellence Award (sponsored by the Manufacturing Foundation) recognises and rewards companies who have made exceptional steps to encourage grater understanding between industry and young people. The award was first introduced in 2004 in response to research conducted by the Foundation that showed that children of all ages were rejecting jobs in wealth generating sectors such as manufacturing because they thought it was “dull, dirty, dangerous, boring and poorly paid”. The study, which asked 1,700 pupils aged 11-14 what they wanted to do on leaving school, suggested that industries crucial to Britain’s future prosperity will face a recruitment crisis if the issue is not addressed.