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How BAE is tackling the productivity gap

Geoff Riley

4th December 2016

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Britain's relative low level of labour productivity is widely recognised as one of the UK's key structural economic weaknesses. The FT has paid a visit to BAE Systems' new training academy near Preston in Lancashire to see how they are tackling the challenge of lifting labour efficiency through investment in cutting edge capital technology and complementary spending to improve human capital.

How BAE is tackling the productivity gap
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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