The UK’s key growth industries risk stagnation unless the country tackles the loss of 50,000 talented girls a year from science, technology and engineering jobs, a major national summit will hear on November 10.
British companies face a massive skills shortage of 69,000 recruits a year, while 93% of girls who have great potential, face a lifetime of low pay and limited prospects because they don’t pursue qualifications for technology-based industries, claims campaigning group WISE. At the organisation’s national conference in London today, chief executive, Helen Wollaston, is calling on…
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