EngineeringUK Chief Executive Dr Hilary Leevers champions vocational routes into engineering and considers the much needed support for employers to help deliver the future workforce. Does your company train apprentices and support vocational learning? Are you even an early adopter, offering placements for the new T Levels? If so, your commitment to vocational routes is hugely appreciated as these routes are entirely dependent on industry support and vital to unlocking future talent. There is a chronic shortage of skilled engineers and technicians to power UK industry. There is not one single way into engineering. Young people have the choice to go down an academic route like university or to explore the vocational options, where they can get first-hand experience of developing skills and working as an engineer or technician. Giving young people a range of routes to enter industry helps widen the talent pool. But we need more employers to support vocational these routes including through offering industry placements.
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