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Paul Lewis

6 May, 7 tweets, 3 min read

https://twitter.com/CGTCatapult/status/1390241277913018368

Great to see Oxford Biomedica, a firm that is intimately involved in manufacture of anti-Covid vaccines, extol the virtues of training apprentices through the ATAC programme in whose inception I was involved: "Before recruiting and upskilling talent through the ATAC programme,...

https://twitter.com/CGTCatapult/status/1390241277913018368

Oxford Biomedica's approach was to only hire highly experienced ...candidates or university graduates for their roles. Continuing to hire from such a limited recruitment base was going to become problematic and a potential barrier to Oxford Biomedica attracting future talent ..

for company growth." But the ATAC programme has "provided Oxford Biomedica with a structured programme that allowed them to significantly deliver on their skills demands ...This year Oxford Biomedica will have 4% of their workforce accounted for by apprentices" and ...

@KingsSSPP

the firms now describes apprenticeships as a “key part of our strategy and plans for the future.” #KCL #impact @KingsSSPP @Kingspol_econ @CGTCatapult @GatsbyEd @KingsCollegeLon

https://twitter.com/PaulLew16394851/status/1278250284356116482?s=20

For more details, see

https://twitter.com/PaulLew16394851/status/1278250284356116482?s=20

Also see researchgate.net/publication/34… ...

and papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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