MANCHESTER ‘HAS FASTEST GROWING EDUCATION SECTOR IN UK’

The UK Powerhouse abstraction is produced by Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) and provides an appraisal of GVA advance and job conception aural 45 of the UK’s better cities, 12 months advanced of the Government’s official figures.

Published this month, the address appear that Manchester’s all-embracing GVA grew by 1.4% in Q3 2017, while its amount of application additionally rose hardly by 0.6% beyond the aforementioned period. In contrast, Greater Manchester’s GVA was recorded at 1.6%, while its application amount was 0.8%.

The address additionally advised the appulse that apprenticeship has on burghal economies and appear that the breadth is one breadth Manchester is thriving.

According to the latest data, the burghal was begin to accept the accomplished GVA advance for education, with the breadth in the burghal growing by 20% amid 2012 and 2015. Manchester was additionally appear to be the fourth better apprenticeship employer in the UK, with 41,040 bodies in the burghal alive in the sector.

According to the study, the allegation could be attributed to the £1bn advance plan to aggrandize the University of Manchester into a world-class campus by 2021. The university itself is anticipation to apply added than 12,000 staff.

Roy Beckett, bounded managing accomplice at Irwin Mitchell in Manchester, said: “While accepted advance in application and Manchester’s abridgement in contempo months has been modest, this new address shows how it has an apprenticeship breadth which is actually thriving.

“With all of the affairs in abode to advance this breadth in the advancing years, it is acceptable to be a breadth which is on the acceleration for abounding years to come.”.