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Offshore workers 'getting younger'

Added: 1 Nov 2011

The number of young people working on the UK’s offshore oil and gas installations is rising, accord…

Career-changers could ease the shortfall of senior engineers

Added: 19 Oct 2011

London — In the next few years, the UK is expected to face greater demand for engineering requireme…

New Technical Apprenticeship Service for science-based Industries

Added: 17 Oct 2011

London — The Technical Apprenticeship Service (TAS) is an easy to use recruitment service for emplo…

Oil & Gas UK report: More young people working offshore

Added: 11 Oct 2011

London - The number of young people working on the UK’s offshore oil and gas installations is risin…

Skills academy accreditation for Pilz machinery safety training

Added: 4 Oct 2011

London — The National Skills Academy has awarded Pilz Automation Technology full accreditation as a…

Getting the ‘skills gap’ right

Added: 1 Oct 2011

London — Much of the effort going in to address the skills and training needs of the process indust…

New Cogent director of Science and Higher Education

Added: 23 Sep 2011

London — Dr David Adams has been appointed as Cogent director of Science and Higher Education (HE) …

Endress+Hauser changing UK leadership

Added: 23 Sep 2011

Manchester, UK — Endress+Hauser is re-jigging the top management of its Manchester-based operation,…

Sheffield Forgemasters adds 17 appprentices

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Sheffield, UK – Sheffield Forgemasters has taken on a new batch of apprentices to add to its specia…

Science graduates struggling to find work, despite 'skills shortage'

Added: 9 Sep 2011

London – Over half of graduates who leave university with a degree in engineering are working withi…

New demand for process safety leadership training

Added: 16 Aug 2011

London – The National Skills Academy for Process Industries (NSAPI) has reported that 60 major comp…

IET bemoans lack of "suitably skilled" engineers

Added: 11 Aug 2011

London, – Almost half of organisations in the IT and engineering sectors are finding it increasingl…

From apprenticeship to senior role at Cressall

Added: 27 Jul 2011

Leicester, UK – Andrew Keith, an alumnus of Loughborough University, has been appointed as technica…

Foster Wheeler appoints Linde exec as new CEO

Added: 26 Jul 2011

Reading, UK – Foster Wheeler AG has appointed Kent Masters from Linde Group as chief executive offi…

Cogent projects attract government funding

Added: 22 Jul 2011

London – The UK governments’s department for business, innovation and skills (BIS) has agreed fundi…

Crotty leads Cogent

Added: 1 Jul 2011

Tom Crotty of INEOS has been confirmed as the next chairman of Cogent Sector Skills Council to succ…

Software-skills gap bites

Added: 1 Jul 2011

An industry-wide shortage of software-experienced engineers and over-extended equipment vendors are…

Process People & Skills Tracker - May 2011

Added: 29 Jun 2011

Alfa Laval has appointed Jerome Maguire as sales engineer for its complete product portfolio in Nor…

Control systems blamed for a third of downtime

Added: 7 Jun 2011

Houston, Texas – An industry-wide shortage of software-experienced engineers and over-extended equi…

Guide to the new Agency Workers Regulations

Added: 6 Jun 2011

Colchester, UK – Anyone working through a recruitment agency, who is under the direct supervision a…