{"id":21119,"date":"2015-07-08T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wearesevenhills.com\/?p=21119"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:40:32","slug":"university-leaders-plan-to-restore-uk-labour-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wearesevenhills.com\/university-leaders-plan-to-restore-uk-labour-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY LEADERS PLAN TO RESTORE UK LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the day Chancellor George Osborne delivered his \u2018Emergency\u2019 Budget Statement in the House of Commons, university leaders from the Universities of Birmingham and Sheffield spoke out about the role universities can play in boosting British business and raising productivity in a media campaign supported by Seven Hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Investment in Higher Education plays a major role in sustaining productivity,\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">wrote Lord Bilimoria, Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/educationopinion\/11725510\/Lord-Bilimoria-Britains-universities-have-been-neglected.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegraph Online<\/a><\/span>. \u2018Real-term investment in both Higher Education and R&amp;D has been dropping for decades and the neglect of Britain\u2019s university faculties is starkly reflected in our low productivity rate, which sits around 15 percentage points below pre-crisis levels.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Prof Sir Keith Burnett, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, spoke to Bloomberg\u2019s Anna Edwards<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2015-07-08\/u-k-manufacturing-needs-boost-burnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg Television<\/a> to offer his perspective on the work being done to make the UK a global force for innovation in advanced manufacturing and transform productivity that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sir Keith said, \u2018Innovate UK funds the UK\u2019s High-Value CATAPULT centres jointly with industry firms. Here, small companies can come and try an idea, work with university colleagues and prove that they can make components cheaper and faster, and then enter an order in the supply chain. It\u2019s really important to have that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Speaking about the work of the University of Sheffield\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Sir Keith said, \u2018We\u2019re looking at how to organise the structure of the supply chain so we can bid for these big things \u2013 big new things like modular nuclear reactors and high-speed trains \u2013 and sell them internationally. That\u2019s the way we\u2019ll get a powerful supply chain and a powerful set of products we can sell abroad.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These statements come ahead of the Chancellor\u2019s Plan for Productivity, due to be unveiled on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day Chancellor George Osborne delivered his \u2018Emergency\u2019 Budget Statement in the House of Commons, university leaders from the Universities of Birmingham and Sheffield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[60,61,19],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UNIVERSITY LEADERS PLAN TO RESTORE UK LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY | Seven Hills<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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