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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…
Safety management summit
Added: 9 Dec 2014
The Process Safety Management (PSM) Summit is the UK’s largest gathering of practitioners and execu…

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…

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…

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
Added: 28 Oct 2014
HBM has announced a series of free on-line webinars starting in the latter part of October and taki…

International colloquium
Added: 13 Oct 2014
On the 02 October 2014, the 5th International Colloquium on Environmental Systems Management in Eur…