Events

METALL #10: The Skills Chasm

Practical steps for a local solution

When: 8-11am, Thursday 11th April

Where: The new Engineering & Digital Technology Park at the University of Chichester’s Bognor Campus

Subject:

The lack of skilled recruits at every level consistently tops the list of concerns for manufacturing, engineering and technology businesses in our area and indeed nationally. The problem hinders growth, affects profitability and can even put business viability and succession planning in doubt. The skills drain caused by Brexit just exacerbates the problem.

METALL #10 seeks to find some local solutions to this long-term problem by getting businesses and education professionals in the same room to look at practical ways we can all work together to help influence local change in our schools and colleges.

This event will be more than a talking shop. It seeks to take the conversation out of the room to agree on some real outcomes to influence and help our educators (and their students) to understand the great career opportunities that pursuing STEM subjects can lead to. Our facilitator for the meeting will be Richard Freeman, CEO of always possible.

We are proud to be holding the event at the University of Chichester’s brand-new Engineering and Digital Technology Park at Bognor Regis and a tour of the new facility will be organised to follow on from the meeting.

Register your place using the form below:

First Name:

Surname:

Email:

Company Name:

Role:

Number of employees:

 I agree to the attendance and data use criteria (see below)

 I am happy for my details, including email address to be shared with other METALL attendees following the event.

Attendance Criteria: To attend an event or register as a member of METALL you need to be involved in a business in the manufacturing, engineering or technology sector or in a closely allied trade. Suppliers of ancillary services and professionals advisers are not eligible to join but may be accepted to a meeting at the sponsors' discretion. METALL is not an open networking group and we wish to discourage the use of the forum as a selling opportunity for third parties. We reserve the right to refuse attendance if a prospective attendee or registered member is found to fall outside of these strict guidelines.

Data use: Unless you consent to your details being passed to other METALL attendees above, your information will only be used to administer METALL and will not be passed on to any third party beyond MHA Carpenter Box, ASB Law and CBS Butler (the sponsors) who administer METALL. The Sponsors may use your information to send details of further events both relating to METALL and for other subjects which may be of interest and for email newsletters (you can subsequently opt out if you wish by following the appropriate link in the newsletter or invite).

Click here to read our full Privacy Notice.