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Boom year for UK life science investment
Added: 8 Feb 2018
An analysis of investment in life sciences in European capital cities has shown London raised the m…
‘Make restaurants display FOG ratings’ demand
Added: 7 Feb 2018
Restaurants should be made to display their record for managing fat, oil and grease (FOG) as part o…
Bilfinger streamlines UK businesses to target new markets
Added: 6 Feb 2018
Global engineering company Bilfinger has merged two of its core UK businesses, saying it would make…
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…
Cost of nationalising water industry would be £90 billion, warns think tank
Added: 5 Feb 2018
Plans to nationalise the UK water industry would result in a buyout that would leave the taxpayer w…
HEFCE money to enable Southampton to share UK photonics skills
Added: 25 Jan 2018
Southampton university has received £0.2 million from the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) …
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…
Sheffield AMRC testing gets ex-builder’s revolutionary aid to market
Added: 24 Jan 2018
Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has enabled a retired builder to get his re…
Severn Trent engineer beats off hundreds to win Apprentice of the Year
Added: 19 Jan 2018
Trainee engineer Heeran Basi is celebrating after defeating hundreds of other entrants to win one o…
Court win as water company cracks down on ‘fatberg’ culprits
Added: 18 Jan 2018
Tougher responses from water companies to businesses responsible for blocking sewers with fat, oil …
BBI’s purchase of Maine Biotechnology Services adds 80 antibodies to portfolio
Added: 17 Jan 2018
Cardiff-based BBI Solutions has added more than 80 antibodies to its product portfolio following th…
UKOOG's Cronin criticises ‘flawed’ Manchester shale claims
Added: 16 Jan 2018
UK Onshore Oil and Gas chief executive Ken Cronin has taken issue with a University of Manchester r…
Award-winning apprentice Oliver lifts the lid on £137k savings for bin firm
Added: 16 Jan 2018
University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre apprentice Oliver Marsh has scooped a major industry a…
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…
Liam Fox to headline at EEF conference with Brexit speech
Added: 15 Jan 2018
Liam Fox will be the keynote political speaker at the this year’s EEF National Manufacturing Confer…
Carillion collapse hits engineering jobs and apprenticeships
Added: 15 Jan 2018
A total of nearly 20,000 jobs, including many in the engineering sector, will be affected by the ne…
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 …
Pfizer cuts neuroscience research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
Added: 11 Jan 2018
Drug giant Pfizer’s announcement that it will withdraw from neuroscience research into products aim…
