BAE Systems is the UK's largest manufacturing employer and the largest employer of professional engineers with around 18,000. The company invests more than £79M per annum through its Skills 2020 programme which aims to ensure BAE Systems has the right skills to remain competitive and operate successfully into 2020 and beyond.
The Skills 2020 programme was launched in July 2010 and includes a nationwide engineering road-show for schools, university partnerships, apprentice and graduate training programmes, collaborative projects with the MoD and trade unions and continued professional development schemes for employees.
Our Skills 2020 strategy has been formulated following a skills review carried out by the Institute of Manufacturing at Cambridge University. This highlighted how skills needs in our business are changing and our document Delivering skills for the future outlines our approach. Our Skills 2020 review document gives an outline of the progress we have made over the last year.
The Skills 2020 programme aims to help sustain and develop not just BAE Systems' business, but the UK's engineering and manufacturing industry as a whole.
