There are no short-term fixes for the UK's engineering skills shortage. But why do some engineering graduates find it hard to get a job? Victoria Montag, Gambica's sector head for industrial automation, suggests that industry needs to work more closely with universities. More than once, I have used these column-inches to ponder the skills shortage in automation and, more broadly, in engineering in the UK. Or rather, I have pondered over what can be done to mitigate the problem - three key lines of attack are: to introduce more school children to Stem, at a younger age and to promote more diversity in the sector; to encourage more students to take engineering degrees/apprenticeships; and to re-skill people in the existing workforce.
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