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Engineering salary rises outpace finance and accountancy
Added: 6 Feb 2018
Advertised salaries in engineering rose faster than other sectors during the last year and across a…

EEF demands urgent overhaul of apprenticeships
Added: 25 Jan 2018
Government apprenticeship policy is in need of a substantial overhaul says manufacturers’ organisat…
China assumes lead in science and tech research paper output
Added: 25 Jan 2018
China has overtaken the USA as the world’s leading producer of scientific and technological researc…

UK manufacturing fails to train for global Industry 4.0 race, says report
Added: 16 Jan 2018
British manufacturing is failing to ensure its engineers are fully trained for the advent of Indust…
NIA gives thumbs up to government's Euratom pledges
Added: 11 Jan 2018
The Nuclear Industry Association has welcomed the government’s statement on Euratom delivered by mi…

One in five UK engineers to quit by 2026 warns report
Added: 11 Jan 2018
The number of engineers in the UK workforce has grown 9% in seven years but this will be offset by …

Emerson wins top IIoT accolade
Added: 8 Jan 2018
Emerson has won Industrial IoT Company of the Year at the 2018 IoT Breakthrough Awards in recogniti…

Wood wins £12 million Hinkley Point C contract
Added: 7 Dec 2017
Wood has won an £11.9 million contract to be sole supplier of inspection qualification services to …

GE announces more than 1,000 UK power jobs to go
Added: 7 Dec 2017
General Electric is to shed more than 1,000 UK jobs from its power division, as part of swingeing c…

UK manufacturing boosted by European performance
Added: 4 Dec 2017
European markets continue to play a key role for British manufacturing toward the end of this year,…

Process leaders on industrial strategy: good but not sufficient
Added: 28 Nov 2017
Welcome for the Government’s newly unveiled industrial strategy has been tempered by demands from t…

Process industries provide a Budget welcome, but with caveats
Added: 23 Nov 2017
The first Autumn Budget in 20 years received a mostly favourable welcome from the process sectors b…
STEM grads more likely to be out of work says CIPD report
Added: 17 Nov 2017
Young people who study STEM subjects have the highest rate of graduate unemployment immediately aft…

Scuoler to chair key UK export body
Added: 13 Nov 2017
Retiring chief executive of manufacturers’ organisation the EEF, Terry Scuoler is the new chair of …
Life sciences in Scotland warns of increasing uncertainty for sector
Added: 10 Nov 2017
Life science companies in Scotland are facing increasing uncertainty because of lack of clarity abo…
‘Human-robot collaboration needed to counter 0.6 million job threat’
Added: 1 Nov 2017
An estimated 0.6 million UK jobs will disappear in one industrial sector alone over the next 20 yea…

Business dissatisfaction with UK infrastructure reaches record levels
Added: 24 Oct 2017
Record numbers of UK companies are dissatisfied with the rate of improvement to the country’s infra…

BEIS secretary Clarke to headline EEF manufacturing conference
Added: 24 Oct 2017
Greg Clarke, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has been confirmed as …

Emerson’s Paradigm takeover will boost position in exploration software
Added: 17 Oct 2017
Emerson has positioned itself as the largest independent provider of exploration and production sof…

Labrador secures £1m investment for smart energy device
Added: 19 Sep 2017
Smart energy company Labrador has announced it has raised in excess of £1 million from more than 30…