“It was an absolute joy to be invited to work with Central Bedfordshire College on the shaping of their new engineering curriculum at their fabulous new site in Leighton Buzzard. It was wonderful to also be asked to help in specifying some of the new equipment they wanted to install and implement. Sarah Mortimer is totally committed to the improvement and expansion of the engineering skills available and her willingness to involve our business, Hone-All Precision, as well as other manufacturing employers in the area, displayed her passion for ensuring that the courses and equipment on offer were not only beneficial to the students but also applicable and appropriate for local employers.
I am regularly involved in trying to raise the skills agenda within our industry and we can only hope that more schools and colleges engage in a similar way to Central Bedfordshire College in order to help us deal with the massive skills gap we have suffered from since the removal of the old apprenticeship based qualifications”.
