Partnership with Education
Sponsored by The ERA Foundation
The best students have the widest choice of careers. How do you make the case for manufacturing?
To ensure the future of manufacturing in Britain, it is essential that businesses attempt to engage with their local communities and schools. The Partnership with Education module assesses how you excite, inspire and motivate the next generation of engineers.
This section aims to assess the progress companies have made towards building two-way partnerships with schools, colleges, and universities. It also reviews how children and young people are able to relate academic study to the world of work through the outreach your company provides. People working in industry have valuable experience to offer children and young people and it is important to recognise best practice and understand the value of partnerships built between companies and educational establishments.
Congratulations to the 2011 winner MBDA UK Limited
MBDA, based in Hertfordshire, is a world leader in missiles and missile systems, employs over 10,000 people in France, the UK, Italy and Germany and focuses heavily on promoting engineering in schools, colleges and universities.
MBDA is fully committed to supporting young people through a variety of channels and currently works with a total of 21 local primary and secondary schools. The company offers work experience students the chance to compete for the government-funded Silver Crest Award, aimed at 14-16 year olds, to expand students’ knowledge of STEM subjects. MBDA also helps fund R&D research in a number of universities and sponsors its commercial apprentices through university, paying fees and providing a salary.
MBDA has demonstrated its ability to bring together the best skills across the whole of Europe, partly due to its efforts to forge links with education organisations, and has succeeded in becoming the prime contractor for a series of strategic multi-national programmes.
Bernard Waldron MBE, UK Manufacturing Director of MBDA said:
"Without our educational partnerships we would not have the calibre of people we have today and would not enjoy the success that our people bring to MBDA.”
