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STEM opportunities
The growth in our 'STEM' sectors (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) will create a huge number of jobs for people from all types of educational and professional backgrounds. The best example is the technician.
Engineering Insight
A new educational support scheme for mechanical engineering students - Engineering Insight - has been launched with sponsorship help from PC World Business and McGraw Hill Publishing.
Opportunities at Apply Altra
Engineering may still be perceived as a male dominated bastion, but women are breaking down the barriers at Aberdeen oil and gas consultancy Apply Altra. Find out more about engineering careers.
Engineering opportunities
UK engineering chiefs gathered at the Department for Education recently to discuss what can be done to ensure the talent pipeline and adequately equip young people for the requirements of industry.
Engineering careers
Students from the University of Bath have won a top award for promoting engineering to school children.
National Science & Engineering Competition
Young people are being encouraged to enter their work into the prestigious National Science & Engineering Competition. Open to 11-18 year olds, it's the perfect opportunity to put big ideas in the spotlight.
Engineering Apprentices
A new paper from EngineeringUK reveals that there has been an 88 per cent increase in the number of adult engineering apprentices between 2009 and 2010.
Funny electronics
ACAL Technology and Napier Partnership Ltd works with University students to make Electronics funny!
Engineering jobs
Advertised vacancies for engineering staff have risen 81% since the depths of the recession in December 2009, outstripping the increase in all the 35 other job sectors analysed each month by the Reed Job Index.
Reasons to get into engineering
A qualification in engineering is a passport to secure employment. Find out about more reasons why you should consider a career in engineering. You can also enter your ideas to the Bosch Technology Horizons Awards.
Can you name a woman engineer?
A survey to mark International Women's Day has revealed that a startlingly low percentage of the population can name a woman engineer.
EDF Sustainable Design Challenge
EDF is calling on Britain's and Europe's brightest young designers to create energy efficient day-to-day solutions which will help us change the way we all use energy.
How to become a pilot
Pilot Training College is hosting Flight Crew Selection days and career guidance seminars across the country. The sessions will demonstrate to would-be students the skills and aptitude needed to be a commercial pilot and to assess applicants on suitability.
Discovery of a new cosmic explosion
A University of Leicester researcher has led an international team of scientists to announce the discovery of a new cosmic explosion: a gamma-ray burst and its associated supernova.
Students record video of the Earth from edge of space
Two University of Sheffield students have recorded a video of the Earth from the edge of space, using homemade equipment and on a shoestring budget.
The origin of the Universe
Astronomers have shown how gravitational lensing allows us to see the faintest and most distant galaxies, helping us to understand the origin of the Universe.
Success after school
Businessman and founder of Phones 4u, John Caudwell, says in some cases there's way too much peer pressure on young people to go on to university after they complete their A levels.
UCAS mobile phone app
Busy university hopefuls can now look up the advice they need at any time, thanks to the UCAS Connect mobile phone app.
Cheap iPhone insurance
Thousands of people every year go to festivals and lose expensive mobile phones and cameras. Now festival goers can insure their iPhones for less than the cost of two pints.
BT super-fast broadband
The capital will see huge levels of investment from BT as the company makes London one of the best connected capital cities well in advance of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Nottingham named as 'world's greenest campus'
The University of Nottingham is the most environmentally friendly campus on the planet, according to a new league table of sustainable universities.
Views on climate change
Direct experience of extreme weather events increases concern about climate change and willingness to engage in energy-saving behaviour.
Helping poorer countries could combat climate change
The effects of global climate change could be minimised by transferring 'best available' low carbon technologies from the rich to the poor nations.
Studying climate change
Plants picked 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbaria collections across the world could become a powerful - and much needed - new source of data for studying climate change.
