WHAT MORE CAN BE DONE TO BOOST APPRENTICESHIPS AND MITIGATE THE SKILLS SHORTAGE IN THE LOGISTICS SECTOR? DAVE BERRIDGE, SECRETARY OF THE AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (AMHSA), EXAMINES THE ISSUES. The UK engineering sector continues to suffer from a serious skills shortage, which is being compounded by insufficient numbers of young people choosing it as a career path. A recent report from Engineering UK estimated that this country needs 1.8 million new engineers by 2025 - a daunting target, especially with Brexit looming large. This matters because engineering is extremely important to the UK; it contributes 26% of our GDP and has a particularly high wider employment multiplier - every extra person employed in engineering supports another 1.74 other jobs.
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