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Manufacturers report turnover fall and recruitment squeeze, claims survey
Added: 27 Aug 2019
UK manufacturers are developing their own workforces to counter a chronic shortage of suitable recr…
First UK training course for fast-growing industrial drones market
Added: 19 Aug 2019
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has launched the UK’s first training c…
North West hatches scheme for ‘smart’ eggs and a digital-led boom
Added: 19 Aug 2019
A company planning to use Big Data and analytics to produce more efficient and happier egg-laying h…
ABB secures key Central Asian digital refinery project
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Global technology leader ABB is to play a strategic role in the transformation of Central Asia’s ma…
Assystem’s Fouin becomes first female to chair Nuclear Institute in North East
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Global engineering organisation Assystem has announced that its senior mechanical engineer has been…
Schneider joins world cybersecurity watchdog
Added: 30 Jul 2019
Schneider Electric has become a founder member of the new Global Cybersecurity Alliance formed by t…
Only one in 20 manufacturers surveyed are happy with apprenticeship levy
Added: 30 Jul 2019
A survey by manufacturers’ organisation Make UK has revealed that 95% of respondents who expressed …
UCL joins list of universities offering degree apprenticeships
Added: 30 Jul 2019
University College London has joined the growing list of British universities offering degree appre…
Labour’s anti-fracking stance will boost emissions, claims UKOOG
Added: 30 Jul 2019
UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG) chief executive Ken Cronin has accused the Labour Party of ‘wanting …
Chemical sector urges Johnson to deliver on exports and manufacturing growth
Added: 24 Jul 2019
A leading chemical sector organisation has urged new prime minister Boris Johnson to start deliveri…
Racing ace Button says time to get women engineers in the fast lane
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Formula 1 driver Jenson Button has used his public profile to support Santander UK’s inaugural STEM…
Engineering applicants on the rise in second quarter
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Summer may be traditionally a bad time for hiring but independent jobs board CV-Library claims that…
Shell’s AM centre wins Lloyd’s coveted ‘badge of excellence’
Added: 17 Jul 2019
Lloyd’s Register has awarded a prestigious best practice qualification to Shell’s groundbreaking 3D…
Assytem's ASCO acquisition heralds French expansion
Added: 12 Jul 2019
Blackburn-based Assystem, now the world’s third largest nuclear engineering organisation has acquir…
EU directive's £17 million threat 'has put cyber security on the process agenda'
Added: 10 Jul 2019
The threat of massive multi-million pound fines for failing to safeguard against cyber security ris…
MP welcomes new food training facility as apprentice capacity doubles at site
Added: 10 Jul 2019
Redditch MP Rachel Maclean officially opened engineering training provider MGTS’s purpose-built fac…
Huddersfield shares in €4 million Euro-donation to train new 5G experts
Added: 9 Jul 2019
A generation of 5G network experts will be trained by the University of Huddersfield, which receive…
Research reveals engineers’ creativity peaks long after others dip…
Added: 9 Jul 2019
New research claims to reveal that engineers reach peak creativity in the day long after other prof…
px Group appoints Ineos Upstream’s Holmes as chief executive
Added: 9 Jul 2019
Infrastructure solutions leader px has appointed Ineos senior executive Geoff Holmes as its chief e…
Network Rail eyes steel assets to keep trains on track
Added: 3 Jul 2019
Network Rail has indicated it may be among the bidders after suggesting it was interested in part o…
