YORK News (West Yorkshire, United Kingdom)

On Thursday May 10th John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills awarded 17 employees of Thorntons PLC.

The Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF) Apprenticeship Roadshow’s next stop will be in the North West on Thursday 5th July at the Marriott Hotel in Preston.

Hartlepool College of Further Education, recently subject of a move to a new £53million state-of-the-art campus, has joined the NSA F & D as a specialist provider of development training and coaching for the UK’s food manufacturing industry.

Academy member Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is launching a major awareness campaign aimed at food and drink manufacturers and designed to showcase the university’s food industry training expertise.

Tasty Careers is a proven new programme designed to showcase careers in your business to the new generation and built around the Tasty Careers website – www.tastycareers.org.uk.

Universities are being invited to compete to partner the UK food and drink industry in developing a dedicated new food and drink engineering degree designed to produce a ready flow of graduates with in-demand food and drink engineering skills.

The Food and Drink Federation, Improve and the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink are delighted to announce a new initiative which we believe will revolutionise the delivery of engineering into the UK food and drink manufacturing industry.

Quaestus, a member of the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink, is to launch a new Lean manufacturing consulting offshoot, Quaestus food, drink! at the Foodex food processing, packaging and logistics trade show at Birmingham’s NEC.

The National Skills Academy for Food & Drink is using the UK’s leading food trade shows to launch a new Professional Membership pack designed to help firms stretch training budgets, increase productivity and attract the next generation of talent.

Leading potato grower and potato product company Greenvale is out to grow its own young talent following official recognition of its site in the border town of Duns as a fully-fledged Modern Apprenticeship Centre.

UK food and drink manufacturers can make significant productivity gains by using Apprenticeships to boost the skill levels of both existing staff and new recruits according to the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink.

Bakery skills specialist Tameside College, part of the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink’s dedicated bakery training network, is in celebration mood after bakery student Oliver Campbell scooped the BBC3 Young Baker of The Year Award.

The National Skills Academy for Food and Drink is a single source of specialist training for the UK food and drink manufacturing sector – and if your business is lacking the skills it needs, we have a training solution to help.

ECC/Detectamet the manufacturer of Metal Detectable Products are pleased to announce the successful acquisition of CK European Safety Equipment Limited.