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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…

ICheME hazard event

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 …

Bionic handling assistant

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…

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Cogent and Skills Academy merge

Added: 17 Feb 2015

Sector skills group Cogent is merging with the National Skills Academy Process Industries (NSAPI) a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Coming up short

Added: 30 Sep 2014

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

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Educational reform

Added: 10 Sep 2014

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

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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…

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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…