All Skills

Career charters at Sellafield, Tata
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Professional accreditation can deliver some important career benefits for engineers working at vari…

Getting off the beaten track
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Professor Mike Bradley asks: Why don’t solids processing plants work properly?

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…