Government urged to tackle £1.5 billion engineering skills shortage through schools

Penny Horwood
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Engineering success begins at school

A new report endorsed by over 150 engineering leaders and celebrities is calling on the government to help tackle the UK's engineering skills shortage by embedding engineering into the current curriculum.

The estimated shortfall of 173,000 STEM sector workers in the UK cannot and should not be viewed in isolation from the lack of diversity in these professions. There isn't a neat pattern of cause an...

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