Student choices -The science of securing our future

IT HAS been long recognised that manufacturing industries face a very challenging future in this part of the world.

Government policy has acknowledged the unavoidable consequences of that sea change. It had no choice, the evidence was there for everybody to see as factory after factory watched its workload being moved eastwards to lower-cost economies.

Traditional businesses that sustained thousands of good, rewarding jobs closed one after another, unable to produce goods viably.