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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…

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…
Coming up short
Added: 30 Sep 2014
The engineering industry has joined forces with the UK government to help bridge the skills gap and…
Educational reform
Added: 10 Sep 2014
Engineering could be in crisis as examination regulator Ofqual looks to axe it from the national cu…

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…

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…
DECC contradicts fracking poll
Added: 12 Aug 2014
Figures released by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) contradict yesterday’s poll th…

New colleges focus on engineering
Added: 6 Aug 2014
Five of the seven new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) announced by chancellor George Osborne y…

Does gender matter?
Added: 1 Aug 2014
Does it really matter what proportion of the engineering profession is male and what proportion is …