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Aveva focuses on importance of strong communication in major projects
Added: 1 Mar 2018
Aveva’s new white paper examines the value of strong communication throughout the project cycle.
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SafeStart workshops address key workplace safety issues
Added: 28 Feb 2018
SafeStart is launching three of its discovery workshops for health and safety leaders, operations a…

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…

How Big Data can boost small firms
Added: 20 Feb 2018
SMEs often think they’ll get left behind in the era of Industry 4.0 but, argues Access Group’s Andy…

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…

Latest Wolfson Centre courses focus on storage of bulk materials
Added: 14 Feb 2018
The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, based at the University of Greenwich, has r…

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…

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…

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…