Strengthening our digital talent pipeline

Greater Manchester is committed to ensuring our people reach their potential and businesses are enabled to play their part in developing a talent pipeline that is diverse and resilient.

The GM Careers Hub giving students first-hand experience of digital businesses through workplace safaris and insight days, enhances the enterprise and careers advice offered within schools and colleges, and supports educators with curriculum development
Through ecosystem collaborations such as the North West Tech Talent Group, Microsoft Get On (external website) and Manchester City Council's Digital Skills group our people are able to explore, enter and progress in creative, digital and tech sectors
Our colleges and universities are growing the STEM graduate pipeline across a diverse range of qualifications and apprenticeships that traditionally lead to digital roles, whilst also developing the digital skills of the wider student population through innovative approaches to flexible learning and industry partnerships
Transforming Greater Manchester into the UK’s leading Technical Education City-Region and providing the advanced and higher technical skills the UK and local economies need, with an ambitious T-Level offer, stimulating demand for apprenticeships, enabled by innovative institutes including, Ada, UA92 (external website) and HOST (external website) and the new Institute of Technology 
A diverse range of skills providers are supporting career changers and returners to enter the tech sector, enabled by local funding freedoms and flexibilities secured through devolution
Industry collaboration is putting employers at the heart of creating and investing in the talent pipeline, developing industry led routes into digital roles to ensure the supply of skills meets business needs
Development of a Digital Skills Plan will consolidate this work setting a clearer ambition and framework for collective action

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