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Warwick Manufacturing Group at Warwick University and the National Skills Academy have signed an agreement to collaborate in providing better skills training to the UK’s manufacturing industry.

Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at Warwick University and the National Skills Academy have signed an agreement to collaborate in providing better skills training to the UK’s manufacturing industry.

The agreement will give the National Skills Academy access to the knowledge gained from WMG’s £72m Premium Automotive Research and Development Programme.

The programme saw Jaguar Land Rover work with WMG to help car-manufacturer suppliers in the West Midlands develop their understanding of how to make themselves more competitive in the global market.

According to WMG, the initiative helped Jaguar save about £4m when introducing its XF model to market.

Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, founder and director of WMG, said: ‘By working with the Skills Academy we aim to establish a major national agency that shares its collective thinking with the sector, using each other’s networks to disseminate far and wide.

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