Siemens has launched a new undergraduate sponsorship programme designed to “discover, inspire and nurture” the next generation of engineering students. The Digital Academy will pay selected students £3,000-a-year from the second year of university and offers up to 12-weeks paid summer placement throughout the duration of their studies within a Siemens business. Digital Academy is the result of a partnership ...
Research from EngineeringUK has revealed some 76% of 11-19 year-olds lack knowledge of what a career in engineering actually entails. The Royal Academy of Engineering warns of “far-reaching implications”. 52% of the same group, when surveyed, suggested they would “probably or definitely” not want to become an engineer. This trend is thought to contribute to an annual shortfall of up ...
In partnership with the University of Cambridge, Raspberry Pi is launching Isaac Computer Science, an online platform for teachers and students of A-level Computer Science. The project is funded by the Department for Education’s National Centre for Computing Education programme. It’s based on a similar initiative the University of Cambridge runs called Isaac Physics, and makes use of the same ...
Harwin has formally opened its Apprentice Training Hub, along with an R&D Centre. Located at the company’s Portsmouth headquarters, construction and kitting out of the unit that will house both these operations has been completed and they are now ready to be staffed. “We started an academy program with a local college as part of our efforts to address the ...
Rutronik24, the sales organization of Rutronik, has set up a dedicated team called BaseCamp to focus exclusively on the needs and projects of start-ups. In addition to supplying components, the team offers consulting services. Andrea Bissinger, director sales global at Rutronik24, says “Rutronik24 focuses on small and medium-sized companies with corresponding needs – so start-ups are precisely our target audience. ...
Over 100 students attended the OSCC, held at the University of Surrey on 24 June. Seventeen teams from 11 schools created and submitted apps for the competition’s final. The event, now in its third year, was co-hosted by Red Hat, Lord Wandsworth College and the University of Surrey. Participating students were tasked with creating an app to help any local charity ...
Research conducted by Studio Graphene, an agency that supports start-ups to commercial status, charts the experiences of tech start-up founders’ experiences. (Spoiler alert: it’s not as easy as they thought.) The survey of over 100 founders of London-based tech business reported finding over half found it took longer than they thought to launch a business and 15% found it more ...
Five ethical principles at the heart of artificial intelligence development and use will be the best way for the UK to benefit from AI, concludes a report by the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. According to the report, ‘AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able?’, done ethically, the UK is in a strong position to be a world ...
London’s technology sector may be competing with the world’s best-known tech city, San Francisco when it comes to job opportunities, but can the good times last? London could be “stopped in its tracks by the restlessness of its tech workforce”, according to research by recruitment website Indeed. The research found that 10.8% of all jobs advertised in the capital are ...
Engineers from TDK-Lambda UK support a team of students from The Ilfracombe Academy in the international STEM competition, F1 in Schools.
