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Gove prepares overhaul to farm manufacture subsidy
Added: 27 Feb 2018
The £3 billion subsidy for British farmers will be continued for several years after EU withdrawal …
Labour’s customs and Euratom stances receive industry welcome
Added: 26 Feb 2018
Labour has won plaudits from industry following party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s call for the UK to com…
Tata Steel fined £1.4m following maintenance worker death
Added: 21 Feb 2018
Tata Steel was fined £1.4 million in February following the death of 26-year-old maintenance engine…
Trade secretary warns EU against post-Brexit manufacturing tariff barriers
Added: 21 Feb 2018
The European Union will suffer if it chooses to create new tariff barriers with the United Kingdom,…
Wood handed contract to bring space tech to nuclear decommissioning
Added: 20 Feb 2018
The Government has awarded energy services firm Wood Group funding worth around £1.5 million to mak…
EPSRC awards Huddersfield University £1.5m to expand materials research
Added: 20 Feb 2018
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the University of Hudder…
Chemistry failing in battle for STEM recruits warns industry survey
Added: 15 Feb 2018
Shortcomings in academic teaching are making it harder to recruit STEM students as professional che…
Boom in demand for engineering courses from international students
Added: 14 Feb 2018
More than one in five international students in the United States is studying engineering reveals r…
Tata Steel ‘no comment’ on reports of new Port Talbot investment
Added: 13 Feb 2018
Tata Steel has refused to comment on reports that it is planning to commit millions of pounds to he…
Deadline approaches for nuclear bursary scheme
Added: 13 Feb 2018
Applicants seeking to develop a career in the sector have until 9 March to apply for this year’s Nu…
Engineering and science bodies create joint benchmark on diversity
Added: 8 Feb 2018
More than 40 engineering scientific bodies have combined to pool data on their performances in prom…
Boom year for UK life science investment
Added: 8 Feb 2018
An analysis of investment in life sciences in European capital cities has shown London raised the m…
‘Make restaurants display FOG ratings’ demand
Added: 7 Feb 2018
Restaurants should be made to display their record for managing fat, oil and grease (FOG) as part o…
Bilfinger streamlines UK businesses to target new markets
Added: 6 Feb 2018
Global engineering company Bilfinger has merged two of its core UK businesses, saying it would make…
Engineering salary rises outpace finance and accountancy
Added: 6 Feb 2018
Advertised salaries in engineering rose faster than other sectors during the last year and across a…
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…
