All Skills
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…
Cogent and Skills Academy merge
Added: 17 Feb 2015
Sector skills group Cogent is merging with the National Skills Academy Process Industries (NSAPI) a…
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
Added: 11 Feb 2015
Giving international graduates more time to find employment would reduce skills shortages and avoid…
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…
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…
Safe hands
Added: 7 Jan 2015
Replacing run-to-fail strategies with condition-based maintenance is an investment in health and sa…
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…
