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Cost of nationalising water industry would be £90 billion, warns think tank
Added: 5 Feb 2018
Plans to nationalise the UK water industry would result in a buyout that would leave the taxpayer w…

HEFCE money to enable Southampton to share UK photonics skills
Added: 25 Jan 2018
Southampton university has received £0.2 million from the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) …

EEF demands urgent overhaul of apprenticeships
Added: 25 Jan 2018
Government apprenticeship policy is in need of a substantial overhaul says manufacturers’ organisat…
China assumes lead in science and tech research paper output
Added: 25 Jan 2018
China has overtaken the USA as the world’s leading producer of scientific and technological researc…

Sheffield AMRC testing gets ex-builder’s revolutionary aid to market
Added: 24 Jan 2018
Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has enabled a retired builder to get his re…

Severn Trent engineer beats off hundreds to win Apprentice of the Year
Added: 19 Jan 2018
Trainee engineer Heeran Basi is celebrating after defeating hundreds of other entrants to win one o…

Court win as water company cracks down on ‘fatberg’ culprits
Added: 18 Jan 2018
Tougher responses from water companies to businesses responsible for blocking sewers with fat, oil …

BBI’s purchase of Maine Biotechnology Services adds 80 antibodies to portfolio
Added: 17 Jan 2018
Cardiff-based BBI Solutions has added more than 80 antibodies to its product portfolio following th…

UKOOG's Cronin criticises ‘flawed’ Manchester shale claims
Added: 16 Jan 2018
UK Onshore Oil and Gas chief executive Ken Cronin has taken issue with a University of Manchester r…

Award-winning apprentice Oliver lifts the lid on £137k savings for bin firm
Added: 16 Jan 2018
University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre apprentice Oliver Marsh has scooped a major industry a…

UK manufacturing fails to train for global Industry 4.0 race, says report
Added: 16 Jan 2018
British manufacturing is failing to ensure its engineers are fully trained for the advent of Indust…

Liam Fox to headline at EEF conference with Brexit speech
Added: 15 Jan 2018
Liam Fox will be the keynote political speaker at the this year’s EEF National Manufacturing Confer…

Carillion collapse hits engineering jobs and apprenticeships
Added: 15 Jan 2018
A total of nearly 20,000 jobs, including many in the engineering sector, will be affected by the ne…
NIA gives thumbs up to government's Euratom pledges
Added: 11 Jan 2018
The Nuclear Industry Association has welcomed the government’s statement on Euratom delivered by mi…

One in five UK engineers to quit by 2026 warns report
Added: 11 Jan 2018
The number of engineers in the UK workforce has grown 9% in seven years but this will be offset by …

Pfizer cuts neuroscience research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
Added: 11 Jan 2018
Drug giant Pfizer’s announcement that it will withdraw from neuroscience research into products aim…

BPMA calls for protection for Britain’s £0.5 billion-worth of EU pump exports
Added: 9 Jan 2018
The British Pump Manufacturers Association has added its voice to industry leaders demanding barrie…

UK to lose lead role in offshore wind energy to China
Added: 9 Jan 2018
The UK’s dominant role in offshore wind energy production will be overtaken by China within four ye…

Emerson wins top IIoT accolade
Added: 8 Jan 2018
Emerson has won Industrial IoT Company of the Year at the 2018 IoT Breakthrough Awards in recogniti…

GMB dismay over Colman’s planned Norwich closure
Added: 5 Jan 2018
Union leaders have responded with dismay to the news that Norwich’s Colman’s factory is to be close…