Government pours £182m into defence training in new strategy

• The UK government has announced a new education drive and a £182 million funding package to significantly boost defence training and skills.
• This initiative aims to grow the UK’s skilled workforce through five new "technical excellence colleges", targeted short courses, and STEM programmes for school students.
• The Ministry of Defence said the strategy will equip the workforce with expertise for a rapidly evolving defence sector and enable innovation at a "wartime pace".
• Defence Secretary John Healey described the drive as the "biggest defence skills plan in decades", intended to boost national security and job creation.
• The announcement follows warnings from a former Nato chief about the UK's unpreparedness for armed conflict and reports of French hospitals preparing for potential major military engagement in Europe.

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UK defence training to ramp up to ‘wartime pace’ in major skills drive