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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Aquabio's Dutch deal extends AD services
Added: 2 Jan 2018
Water recycling pioneer Aquabio has signed an agreement with Dutch firm Econvert Water and Energy B…
UK faces process industry challenge and opportunity from Germany
Added: 2 Jan 2018
Germany could be competing for British engineering graduates, as the country faces an impending ski…
Keeping compressors in proper condition
Added: 28 Dec 2017
For manufacturers and engineers across the UK, compressed air is just as important as gas and elect…
Wood wins £12 million Hinkley Point C contract
Added: 7 Dec 2017
Wood has won an £11.9 million contract to be sole supplier of inspection qualification services to …
GE announces more than 1,000 UK power jobs to go
Added: 7 Dec 2017
General Electric is to shed more than 1,000 UK jobs from its power division, as part of swingeing c…
New online training catalogue published by IChemE
IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) | Added: 5 Dec 2017
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has published its latest training course catalogue, …
UK manufacturing boosted by European performance
Added: 4 Dec 2017
European markets continue to play a key role for British manufacturing toward the end of this year,…
Process leaders on industrial strategy: good but not sufficient
Added: 28 Nov 2017
Welcome for the Government’s newly unveiled industrial strategy has been tempered by demands from t…
