All Skills
STEM gap-year numbers bounce back
Added: 23 Apr 2012
London – Companies are reporting a big increase in working gap-year applications from science, tech…
Imperial College London opens carbon capture plant
Added: 19 Apr 2012
London – Imperial College London has officially opened a carbon capture pilot plant within the chem…
New safety training standard for oil & gas industry
Added: 18 Apr 2012
London – A new oil and gas industry training standard, designed to improve safety at offshore works…
Engineering skills in high demand as infrastructure investment hits record level
Added: 12 Mar 2012
London - Demand for engineering skills is continuing to defy the otherwise weak jobs market, buoyed…
UK manufacturing good ... but at the wrong things
Added: 12 Mar 2012
London – Amid the coalition government’s drive – or, as its business secretary Vince Cable describe…
Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…
Apprentices success story to end?
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – T?ime is running out for the Tees Valley Apprenticeship Programme (TVAP) in the North East…
Skills shortages are a number one concern
Added: 13 Feb 2012
Skills shortages are now the no. 1 issue for the process industries worldwide, industry leaders rep…
Skills overhaul boosts productivity at BASF
Added: 6 Feb 2012
BASF has reported significant improvements in productivity following a National Skills Academy Proc…
BP increasing graduate recruitment by 50%
Added: 2 Feb 2012
London – BP is increasing its annual UK graduate recruitment by 50%, to nearly 250 graduates, in 20…
UK chemical engineering course applications up 12%
Added: 31 Jan 2012
London – Chemical engineering degree courses have attracted 11,890 applications, 12.4% more than th…
3D software helps Aberdeen start-up
Added: 26 Jan 2012
Aberdeen, UK – When Aberdeen-based Liberty Drilling Equipment (LDE) was founded in October 2010, it…
System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…
GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…
Three big issues in 2012
Added: 23 Jan 2012
London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…
Oil & gas employers 'should look to recruit from other industries'
Added: 11 Jan 2012
London – Companies in the oil & gas industry will have to take on many extra staff in 2012 to meet …
"It looks all right to me"
Added: 11 Jan 2012
London – Skills shortages, it seems, are seriously impacting the quality of products and services a…
Autumn Statement: "Government has eventually listened to industry”
Added: 6 Dec 2011
London – The UK chancellor’s Autumn Statement includes a number of measures in areas including envi…
Oil & gas group urges competency ahead of compliance
Added: 29 Nov 2011
London – The oil and gas companies must focus more on competence, rather than compliance, if they a…
BP engineer heads Oil & Gas UK awards list
Added: 7 Nov 2011
Aberdeen, UK – In the recent Oil & Gas UK Awards 2011, Ann Davies, a well intervention engineer (su…
