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News Release from: Print IT!
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 December 2005
PrintIT Boss Goes Back To Old School
Thirty-three years after leaving the Sir John Leman School and embarking on a successful career in printing, local 'boy' Martyn Elmy returned to the school as chairman of PrintIT!.
Thirty-three years after leaving the Sir John Leman School in Beccles, Suffolk (UK) and embarking on a successful career in printing, local 'boy' Martyn Elmy returned to the school as chairman of PrintIT! Students at the school are among nearly 23,000 Year 10 students taking part in PrintIT! as part of their GCSE Graphic Products studies
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 2 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Three decades after they completed their printing apprenticeships, Martyn Elmy was joined by Ian Foyster, who is now managing director of Beccles book printer Clowes.
Clowes is working with Sir John Leman School under a PrintIT! scheme that encourages local printers to twin with neighbourhood schools and provide students with first-hand experience of the advanced technology employed by printers today.
Elmy explained how PrintIT! came about: "Printing is part of the fifth largest manufacturing sector in the country, and is one of the UK's most high-tech industries.
It has given me a fulfilling and rewarding career, yet there are many misunderstandings about what exactly the modern printing industry involves.
PrintIT! is designed to remedy this and to introduce students to the opportunities in our exciting, challenging and advanced sector of the communications business." "PrintIT! has really enlivened our teaching of GCSE Graphic Products," said Marilyn Rowley.
"It links the theory with the practice, and the classroom with local business.
It's a great idea and has captured the students' imagination." Ian Foyster added: "Clowes may be over 200 years old but we employ the latest technology and simply can't take the future for granted - it depends on recruiting bright young people by offering them careers where they can develop existing skills and learn new ones.
Hopefully the relationship we are building with Sir John Leman through PrintIT! will help us do just this - it's a great opportunity for us.".
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