E&T Mag: Training engineers - solving the pipeline problem

A skills shortage in engineering is nothing new – it has been flagged as a problem for decades. But are we getting any closer to resolving it?

‘Engineering’ is currently the most-searched-for term on the university application website Ucas. If there’s no shortage of interest from young people, then why is there a dearth of people equipped to do the job? What is going wrong with training the UK’s engineers?