On the job qualifications set to soar

A recent study carried out by EEF (The Manufacturers Organisation) has shown a massive shift in the UK manufacturing industry’s approach to employing young people.  Evidence gathered indicates a growing rise in prioritising apprenticeship programmes over graduate schemes to fill the growing skills gap. According to EEF, almost three quarters of companies (72%) intend to […]

Swift-Cut apprenticeship scheme

Back in 2014, Swift-Cut took on two young college students from Burton and South Derbyshire College as part of an apprenticeship scheme.  Studying on a two year course in electro-mechanical engineering (NVQ Level 2),  Mason and Jordan spent four days a week at our headquarters in Burton on Trent, with hands on learning under the […]

A Hypertherm Adventure

Hypertherm is a company continually keeping their wheels turning – their latest launch is yet another string on their corporate social responsibility bow and a scheme that here at Swift-Cut, we find particularly worthy. Introducing their new corporate venture capital arm to support emerging advanced manufacturing technology, Hypertherm Ventured will in essence partner up and […]