Education

EngineeringUK call on government to increase STEM teacher recruitment

EngineeringUK’s policy and public affairs team will be making a written submission to the Treasury’s stakeholder representation portal for the forthcoming Budget and Spending Review.  It will put forward a series of policy proposals based on its policy pri...

5G-Industry Campus Europe in Aachen expanded with Cloud RAN 

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT, RWTH Aachen University and Ericsson GmbH have successfully expanded the 5G-Industry Campus Europe in Aachen with a Cloud RAN infrastructure.   Cloud RAN enables the virtualisation of the...

Scholarly structures: Elevating universities with Smart Building integration 

The University of Birmingham is pioneering the integration of Smart Building technologies across its campus, setting new standards for sustainability and efficiency in higher education. Discover how Trevor Payne, Director of Estates at the University of...

Halo to enhance UK university campus security and safety

Halo Solutions, one of the UK’s leading crowd safety and security platforms, is to make its award-winning safety technology available to help make universities safer places and to help protect female students, tackle crime and protestor activity. The c...

GenAI’s impact on construction’s health and safety training and education 

Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, are an exciting new technology, but does it have any serious application in construction? Richard Stockley, Managing Director at RRC International, believes so, specifically in health and safety training and education.  ...

Globant announces the fifth edition of Women That Build Awards 

A digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions has announced the launch of the fifth edition of the Women that Build Awards, an annual recognition that promotes global visibility (Latin America, Europe,...

Study finds that engineering and technology offers graduates strong employment prospects 

EngineeringUK has previewed the findings of a new report which reveals nearly three-quarters of graduates who studied engineering and technology (72.5%) were in paid work for an employer 15 months after graduation. This is higher than that for graduates...

NTU to launch new £1.5m centre for sustainable construction and retrofitting

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) will invest £1.5 million into developing skills, research, training and consultancy to support the UK construction sector reach net zero. The University will launch the Centre for Sustainable Construction and Retrofit to ...

School reconstruction in war-torn Ukraine uses revolutionary 3D printing 

A city in western Ukraine is using 3D printing technology during the second stage of constructing a school’s building. According to preliminary calculations, this will be the largest one-story educational facility in the world, built with an on-site...

UTC Heathrow and Vertiv enter educational partnership

UTC Heathrow has announced a partnership with Vertiv, which will see its people working alongside the UTC to deliver a co-teach programme of learning based on the data centre sector.  The Digital Futures Programme is a first for any UK school. The...