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News Release from: GSM Graphic Arts
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 February 2007
Label Printer Brings Education And
Industry Closer
Metal and plastic label and nameplates printer GSM Graphic Arts is hoping to stimulate interest in manufacturing amongst students through an initiative bringing education and industry together.
Metal and plastic label and nameplates printer GSM Graphic Arts is hoping to stimulate interest in manufacturing amongst students through an initiative bringing education and industry together The firm hosted a professional development day at its North Yorkshire (UK) factory, designed to help teachers update their skills and knowledge of the manufacturing sector, design and production processes, looking at areas such as health and safety, product design and the use of ICT in manufacturing
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 22 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The partnership project is the brainchild of the North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership (NYBEP), which works to forge links between education and business that will help prepare students for their working lives.
NYBEP support adviser, Claire Barker, said: "The aim of the development days is to give teachers an opportunity to update their knowledge of a particular part of the curriculum and to understand the skills required in the workplace that can then be incorporated in to teaching activities in the classroom.
Our ultimate goal is to raise standards of achievement among students." GSM general manager, Rudy Pearce, who hosted the event, said: "It's our responsibility as a manufacturer and employer to invest time to help ensure young people understand the requirements of business and - in our case - manufacturing.
Keeping teachers up to speed with industry developments and skills requirements will help make sure relevant information reaches tomorrow's CAD designers and operations managers, hopefully whet some appetites for a career in manufacturing and ensure that expectations - both ours and those of students - are more closely matched when young people start work in the industry." He continued: "If we get just a handful of people interested and give them a better understanding of a career in manufacturing as a result, it will be time well spent.".
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