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United Utilities training centre

Water utility tackles skills shortage

Added: 12 Feb 2015

Water firm United Utilities has invested £1.5 million in a new technical training centre located at…

Exiling excellence

Exiling excellence

Added: 11 Feb 2015

Giving international graduates more time to find employment would reduce skills shortages and avoid…

Students in the design phase of their degrees

Investment boost for engineering talent

Added: 15 Jan 2015

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is investing £1.2 million in up and coming engi…

money trees skills wealth

A wealth of opportunity

Added: 14 Jan 2015

Chemical engineering graduates earn some of the best salaries in the country. But does this stop th…

AVT Reliability Davina Reilly

Safe hands

Added: 7 Jan 2015

Replacing run-to-fail strategies with condition-based maintenance is an investment in health and sa…

Energy minister Matthew Hancock opens National shale gas college in Blackpool

Shale college launch: premature or necessary?

Added: 7 Jan 2015

With so little known about the skills it will target and the courses it will offer, the launch of t…

PSM Summit

Safety management summit

Added: 9 Dec 2014

The Process Safety Management (PSM) Summit is the UK’s largest gathering of practitioners and execu…

Bara PPMA Robot2

Cyber security and robotics “priorities”

Added: 27 Nov 2014

Action must be taken to support six fast-growth industries that could significantly boost the UK ec…

Ineos Upstream chief executive Gary Haywood

Ineos eyes North Sea production

Added: 25 Nov 2014

Ineos plans to move into North Sea oil & gas production, advertising a number of senior roles on it…

Energy minister Matthew Hancock (right) opens the National College for Onshore Oil and Gas in Blackp

National shale college launched

Added: 13 Nov 2014

The UK’s first national shale oil & gas college was officially launched in Blackpool yesterday.

HBM webinar series

HBM webinar series

Added: 28 Oct 2014

HBM has announced a series of free on-line webinars starting in the latter part of October and taki…

Environmental workshop

International colloquium

Added: 13 Oct 2014

On the 02 October 2014, the 5th International Colloquium on Environmental Systems Management in Eur…

Skills survey response graph

Coming up short

Added: 30 Sep 2014

The engineering industry has joined forces with the UK government to help bridge the skills gap and…

exams

Educational reform

Added: 10 Sep 2014

Engineering could be in crisis as examination regulator Ofqual looks to axe it from the national cu…

BP plant operator

BP seeks future leaders in recruitment drive

Added: 2 Sep 2014

BP today launched a two-month recruitment drive to hire up to 30 potential new leaders of its globa…

Skills kids2

Reform engineering GCSE, industry urges

Added: 21 Aug 2014

On GCSE results day, industry body calls for the reform rather than the removal of engineering qual…

Shale tweet

DECC contradicts fracking poll

Added: 12 Aug 2014

Figures released by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) contradict yesterday’s poll th…

University Technical Colleges Skills

New colleges focus on engineering

Added: 6 Aug 2014

Five of the seven new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) announced by chancellor George Osborne y…

Forty-nine per cent of industry representatives claim skills shortages are their main barrier to gro

Does gender matter?

Added: 1 Aug 2014

Does it really matter what proportion of the engineering profession is male and what proportion is …

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Just 6% of engineers are women

Added: 31 Jul 2014

On average just 6% of engineers in the UK are female, with the highest proportions occuring in the …