Promoted content: Sustained strategy on skills is key for UK engineering

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If the engineering skills shortage is to be tackled to avoid a future catastrophe for the UK engineering industry, organisations within industry and educational establishments must act now and play their part, big or small. 

RS Components has long been committed to the cause of raising awareness of STEM subjects to increase uptake among schoolchildren and students and inspire tomorrow’s engineers. Here, James Howarth, Head of Education Strategy at RS, and Laura Giddings, RS STEM Education Manager, answer some key questions around the reasons behind the firm’s involvement in this mission, the impact they believe it has had and what the future may hold for the company’s support of this important quest.

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We are in the midst of a global skills crisis: according to a recent report published by Dell Technologies, 85 per cent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t even been invented yet. Furthermore, it has been estimated by EngineeringUK that by the year 2024, the UK will need 186,000 skilled engineers annually to keep up. We must urgently address this major skills shortage and lack of STEM subjects uptake to ensure there is a pipeline of talent to safeguard our future infrastructure – particularly with the exponential growth in a variety of industries that rely on engineering technology.

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