A leading Birmingham school has been praised for its growing links with business.
HME Technology, of Saxon Park in Bromsgrove, a top manufacturer and installer, has won an order to provide £75,000 worth of design and technology equipment to Harborne Academy, part of Birmingham Metropolitan College.
The firm won the work – due to be completed this summer – as a sub-contractor of giant building group BAM.
Julian Davis, HME Technology managing director, urged schools to expand their links with business and hailed the College and Academy’s connection to the world of engineering.
He said: “Schools are being encouraged to build bridges with industry as it is recognised post the banking crisis that manufacturing and engineering must play a greater part in a re-balanced UK economy.
“The sector offers an excellent career path, vital skills and well remunerated employment. Birmingham was famed as the City of a Thousand Trades and it is good to see that schools and industry are again working in partnership to once more bring out such abilities in its young people.”
Harborne Academy serves 800 students in Years 7 to 11, including 200 post-16 pupils.
Formerly Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham Metropolitan College is a further and higher education establishment with eight campuses across the city.
Founded in 1984, HME Technology products include forges, brazing hearths, furnaces, welding tables, fume extraction systems, kilns, woodworking equipment, wood dust extraction systems, metal finishing and CNC machines. It also supplies fume cupboards and ventilation systems for science departments.
