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News Release from: Print IT!
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 February 2006
Government Minister Praises PrintIT's
Value
Phil Hope MP, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills visited Northampton School for Boys, to meet pupils that had taken part in PrintIT!.
Phil Hope MP, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills visited Northampton School for Boys, to meet pupils that had taken part in PrintIT! PrintIT! is the Picon-led nationwide initiative designed to encourage young people to embark on a career in the printing industry
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 2 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Students at Northampton School for Boys were among nearly 23,000 Year 10 students that took part in PrintIT! as part of their GCSE graphic products studies, which involved developing a print-based promotional campaign for The Fairtrade Foundation charity.
The winners of the PrintIT! competition will be announced at a an awards ceremony to be held at the NEC, Birmingham, during Ipex 2006.
A teacher and school governor before entering parliament, Phil Hope welcomed PrintIT!: "It is a valuable initiative that introduces students to the opportunities in an advanced industry that is the fifth largest manufacturing sector in the country.
It also puts them in contact with local employers and, through the connection with Fairtrade, addresses schools' social responsibility agenda.
It's a great idea." Barry Ratcliffe, the key-stage four (KS4) co-ordinator at Northampton School for Boys, added: "PrintIT! has really invigorated our teaching of GCSE graphic products.
It links the theory with the practice, and the classroom with local business." The school is also working with local printer Avalon Print, which has helped to provide students undertaking the PrintIT! project with first-hand experience of the technology employed by printers today.
Martyn Elmy, the chairman of PrintIT!, commented: "The positive feedback from teachers and students taking part in PrintIT! has been overwhelming and by working alongside local printers through the PrintIT! twinning programme, it has really opened up boundaries between local schools and printers.
PrintIT! is a credit to all the key partners, sponsors and supporters of the initiative and really sets our industry ahead in terms of our determination to work together to encourage a new, young and vibrant future workforce.".
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