By John Pearce, CEO, Made in Britain
Education is the key to unlocking potential and empowering people with the knowledge they need to make high-quality decisions. One of the reasons we publish so much news about MiB members and their products is to inform and teach the public what products are still, very proudly, being made to the highest standards in this country and show who exactly is making them. At Made in Britain, we look forward to focusing on the evidence of success, in the business of making great British products for everyone here in the UK, and abroad.
This month I had the pleasure of presenting, for the first time ever, to third-year undergraduates at the local-to-me Anglia Ruskin University. The invite was to share with the audience a few of the business realities of the British manufacturing world and to explain what Made in Britain the organisation does to help promote the sector more broadly. I was also asked to demonstrate why sustainability and social value are such bigger topics for the manufacturing sector than many others.
If young people entering the workplace for the first time want to work for a business that is making a difference locally, regionally and nationally, they need look no further than the directory of MiB members on our website. And people of any age should consider the sector as one of the most important in the coming years, as we have to learn to make more products here and make new products to serve today’s demands – not last century's.
As ever, when I presented to an audience about the organisation I am responsible for, there were questions on all kinds of topics, some of them quite challenging to cover in the limited time we had. But what excited me the most was the quality of the thinking that went into one question regarding the circular economy and raw material resource scarcity. That one question alone may be one of the greatest challenges for everyone making saleable goods from the limited supply of some essential components and materials needed for the sector. I was relieved to know that undergraduates at ARU are indeed asking the right questions and thinking about how to find solutions.
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