Academy questions

Can we win the battle to become the UK's Military Academy?

Wales is making the final push to be the site for forces training across the MOD - a massive £14bn contract involving 5,000 jobs.

On Wales@work this week we're asking what would it really mean for Wales - and would its effects reach further than St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan where it would be sited?

The deal would be the biggest ever Government investment into Wales and the consortium bidding for St Athan say it would mean huge benefits for the area.

But not everyone is happy. The PCS union, which represents forces personnel, say their members object to plans by the bidders to move training from more than 40 sites to one or two locations. And they don't like proposals to make the military's trainers work for private sector companies.

The government is expected to announce preferred bidders before the end of the year.

So who would win and who would lose from the creation of a central military academy in Wales?

Join Sarah Dickins for Wales@work on BBC Radio Wales, Tuesday 5 December 2006, at 6pm, and let us know what you think, email work@bbc.co.uk - we'll try to get your views on the air.


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