The inside story of the Manchester's Green Skills Academy

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Credit: Growth Company, exterior of the renovated warehouse home to Green Skills Academy
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Credit: Growth Company, exterior of the renovated warehouse home to Green Skills Academy

Last week saw the official opening of the UK's latest Green Skills Academy - BusinessGreen got the inside track on how firms are working together to tackle the looming clean tech skills crunch

With its canals, red brick factories, and warehouses, Manchester was famously one of the crucibles of the first industrial revolution, exporting its goods and its production processes all around the world....

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