{"id":4324,"date":"2014-04-07T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T07:21:10","slug":"wales-need-more-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/04\/07\/wales-need-more-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales needs more engineers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/59\/Flag_of_Wales_2.svg\/800px-Flag_of_Wales_2.svg.png\" alt=\"flag of wales\" width=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">According to the Royal Academy of Engineers Wales needs something like an extra 2,500 graduates by 2020 to cope with those leaving due to retirement.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Again, I just don&#8217;t know if this is really the case, given that we know that plenty of engineers are not finding suitable employment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As soon as you look at the numbers, it is very hard to justify [claims of] a skills shortage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Marcus Body, head of research at Work Communications <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  Nearly a quarter of UK engineering graduates are working in non-graduate jobs or unskilled work such as waiting and shop work, a report suggests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Katherine Sellgren (BBC) (2011)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I know I am starting to sound repetitive here, but what is really going on and how can we get to the truth? Do we really need more STEM graduates or not?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-26912408\" title=\"BBC News\" target=\"_blank\">Wales needs 2,500 engineers by 2020, professionals says<\/a> BBC News Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Royal Academy of Engineers Wales needs something like an extra 2,500 graduates by 2020 to cope with those leaving due to retirement. Again, I just don&#8217;t know if this is really the case, given that we know that plenty of engineers are not finding suitable employment. As soon as you look at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/04\/07\/wales-need-more-engineers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wales needs more engineers?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}