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Manufacturing fastest growing part of UK economy for first time since 1870s
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If you're bright and ambitious you go into The City. There is a lot of talent going to waste there.
Plenty of people with post grad degrees are basically just pushing buttons.
I used to work with a girl that had a PhD in maths that was doing a job that I could train anyone that posts on here to do in a couple of weeks.A !!!!!! salary scale and being treated like a car mechanic rather than like a professional similar to a doctor or a judge, like you do in Germany will be the reason why.
I'm married to a boffin. DH has 3 first class degrees and a PhD but won't go into the area in which he did his study because it has never paid as well though at least he's ended up in a job where he can use some of it. The city is always that option that he would consider if he ever felt like selling his soul to the devil apparently!
The only way I can see round it is if good STEM students get their degrees paid for on the condition that they spend a period working in that industry, but even that could fall flat if there aren't the jobs.
It's crazy. We're known for having creative brains here. We also have some really good seed funds. We should be able to get more world-beating firms off the ground. We should also treat engineers with more respect. F1 shows what happens when you have world beating engineering experience in a particular area.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Not sure about manufacturing being the horse to pull us out the hole.
Most of the efficiencies gained in the last 10 years have been at the price of conditions , wages , longevity and permanence.
If the shoe gets anywhere near the other foot I think workforces will start asking for some return on the sacrifices.
Welcome to the [STRIKE]18th [/STRIKE]21st century.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
"Business confidence in the manufacturing sector has plummeted to a two-year low"
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/manufacturing-confidence-low-032928503.html"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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