Higher Education
Abroad .
.
.
What are
the issues?
Shortage of
Engineering
graduates
Times Higher
Education World
University
Rankings 2012
New Unistats
website
Which?
University
launched
University
lectures for
secondary schools
The UK needs to increase by...
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Higher Education
Abroad .
.
.
What are
the issues?
Shortage of
Engineering
graduates
Times Higher
Education World
University
Rankings 2012
New Unistats
website
Which?
University
launched
University
lectures for
secondary schools
The UK needs to increase by as much as 50% the number of science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) graduates it is
creating, a report says.
The study, by the Royal Academy of Engineering, says 100,000 Stem graduates are needed a year just to maintain the status quo.
It argues the UK is already slipping down the international innovation league tables.
The UK has dropped to eighth globally in the
number of US patents registered.
The report estimates 830,000 graduate-level Stem experts and 450,000 technicians will be needed by 2020.
In the UK some 23,000 engineers are graduating every year.
But India is producing eight times as many and China 20 times as
many.
The report warns overall that the current pool of science, technology and engineering exp
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