Apprenticeships are a vital pathway into the construction and civil engineering sectors as they provide diversity of tasks, hands-on engagement and the opportunity to earn money, according to NCE’s Apprentice of the Year 2022 winners.
This week is National Apprenticeships Week, and NCE is just one among many companies connected to…
As it’s National Apprenticeship Week, it’s an ideal time to take stock of the apprenticeships landscape and reflect on the vital role they play in the engineering and technology sector.
At the end of last year, the Department for Education (DfE) released its latest apprenticeships data and EngineeringUK ran an…
Against a backdrop of economic challenge, rising materials and labour costs, new figures from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) have revealed that almost 225,000 extra workers will be required to meet UK construction demand by 2027.
CITB is responding by investing in apprenticeships, launching a range of targeted initiatives and…
Former Labour and Conservative ministers Lord Knight and Lord Willetts, with support from charity EngineeringUK, have launched an inquiry to uncover the reasons behind the decline in engineering, manufacturing and technology apprenticeship starts seen over recent years in the UK.
Given the skills shortage and a growing demand for engineers and…
It can sometimes surprise people I speak with to learn that I’m now in my 36th year at WSP. I don’t often reflect on my journey from entry-level civil engineer to chief executive within the same organisation, but so formative were those early years of my career that this week…
HS2’s commitment to creating "Skills for Life" – the theme for this year’s National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) – has been reinforced today as the company confirmed 300 more apprenticeship jobs will be created.
NAW, from 6 to 12 February, is an opportunity for the education and skills sector to celebrate the…
A Construction Skills Network report found that the built environment will need around 53,000 extra recruits each year over the next four years to meet projected UK construction demand. However, it is no secret that the construction industry has an ageing workforce. The knock on effect of an ageing workforce…
Ferrovial Construction’s UK business has high hopes That it can do its bit to address the country’s long standing skills deficit with its new apprentice programme: Futures, mentoring initiatives and career ‘roadmaps’.
Closing the skills gap remains priority number one for the civil engineering sector, says Ferrovial Construction UK’s managing director…
Apprenticeships: History repeating? Degree apprenticeships (Inside Track, last month) are really just reinventing the wheel. When I began my civil engineering career in the 1960s, I did so by means of what was then called a “sandwich course”. This involved paid sponsorship to undertake a degree course alternating with periods…
Like all of life’s great conundrums; Mars or Snickers, Peroni or Birra Moretti, hair up or hair down, deciding whether or not to go to university or head for the world of work and forge a career via an apprenticeship can be a difficult choice to make.
Historically, and particularly in…
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