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Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 February 2008
Engineering should be added to UK skills
shortages
Leading business association the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) wants more engineering disciplines included on the UK government list of professions suffering from skills shortages
In discussions with the Border and Immigration Agency, ACE has singled out civil, structural, building services, mechanical and electrical engineering as specialisms in which the UK is lacking personnel and for which work permit regulations should be lowered for engineers from outside the EU ACE chief executive Nelson Ogunshakin said, "Along with healthcare and teaching, the current skills shortages list makes note of engineering as a key area for which work permit regulations should be lowered, but more disciplines need to be added immediately to address the short-term challenges facing the industry
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Until we manage to reverse the trend of decreasing numbers of engineering graduates coming through our own education system we must find an alternative source of high-calibre professionals.
Only in this way can we ensure the already acute skills shortages in the engineering sector do not reach crisis proportions.
He continued, "As a follow-on from the recent ACE Skills Shortages and Recruitment Agency Behaviours investigation we are in on-going discussions with and have made our concerns known to the Border and Immigration Agency.
We understand that this is not the only solution to the problem, bu! t it is at least part of the solution and will ensure the short-term viability of consultancy and engineering firms, who base their entire value on the quality of their staff".
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