Limitations with the Apprenticeship Levy and a worrying shortage of technical teachers means the UK education system cannot produce enough engineers to support the economy, especially with increasing reliance on home-grown talent post-Brexit.
That’s the damning conclusion of a new report – Engineering Skills for the Future: The 2013 Perkins Review Revisited, led by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The study finds numerous barriers to addressing the UK’s annual shortfall of almost 60,000 engineers and technicians in the workforce, including narrow post-16 education options, teacher shortages and an…
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