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Election skills
Added: 6 May 2015
Following tomorrow’s general election, key engineering issues such as skills shortages look set to …
Women 'take advantage' of careers scheme
Added: 5 May 2015
Nearly 200 women have completed a programme designed to help overcome barriers to career progressio…
Engineering’s election
Added: 29 Apr 2015
Engineering has come into the spotlight like never before during this general election campaign.
Female focus at engineering event
Added: 27 Apr 2015
A major focus of The National Engineering & Construction Recruitment Exhibition (NECR) 2015 looked …

Silo design best practice for bulk materials
Added: 22 Apr 2015
The costs associated with commissioning overruns or troubleshooting poor plant performance are reco…
Skills initiative reaches milestone
Added: 20 Apr 2015
The Science Industry Partnership (SIP) has surpassed 2,000 people being trained across the chemical…
Engineering education centre launched
Added: 16 Apr 2015
University College London (UCL) has today launched the UCL Centre for Engineering Education which i…

Lib Dems to double innovation spend
Added: 15 Apr 2015
Party’s manifesto supports Catapult Centres, while Ukip promises to scrap STEM subject tuition fees.

Skills concern over Tory manifesto
Added: 14 Apr 2015
The Conservative Party launched its manifesto for the general election today and immediately drew c…

Labour manifesto focuses on industry
Added: 13 Apr 2015
The Labour Party was today the first of the major political parties to launch its manifesto for the…
Semta pioneers STEM initiative
Added: 9 Apr 2015
Employer-led skills body Semta has launched the STEM Exchange in an effort to bring further educati…

Food engineers taste future
Added: 1 Apr 2015
Industry event designed to inspire the next intake of food engineering graduates provides advice, t…
North Sea emergency simulated
Added: 24 Mar 2015
The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…

PM launches degree apprenticeships
Added: 12 Mar 2015
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to rollout nine freely available degree apprentice…
Safety: a ticking timebomb
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…

Process safety: barely begun
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

New university aims for 50% women
Added: 5 Mar 2015
A new engineering university located in Herefordshire aims to attract more women into the industry.

Prized profession
Added: 4 Mar 2015
The biggest prize you can win as an engineer is the chance to positively impact the lives of billio…

Process safety event for high hazard industries
Added: 24 Feb 2015
The Institution of Chemical Engineer’s (IChemE’s) leading process safety event for the high hazard …
Manufacturers voice ‘Industry 4.0’ concern
Added: 23 Feb 2015
Manufacturing trade body EEF has published research which suggests that 80% of manufacturers in the…