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Scottish Enterprise raised a few eyebrows last February when it decided to sell its stake in the Alba Centre. Funding of a semiconductor design campus in Scotland may no longer be on the agenda of the politicians in Holyrood, but the Scottish design community seems to be flourishing and in many respects the Edinburgh-Glasgow corridor ranks with Cambridge and Bristol as a hotbed of electronics design companies.

Funding for university engineering students needs to increase by at least 50 per cent, otherwise there will be a severe shortage of high quality graduate engineers within ten years, according to the Royal Academy of Engineering

Experienced electronics designers and managers are a precious resource in the UK, which can only be good news for engineers looking to progress their careers this year

Contract electronics manufacturer Kingfield Electronics has decided to actively promote the electronics and engineering industry, and strengthen its links to the local community with a summer school initiative

The Institute for System Level Integration has hooked up with Silicon South West to provide continual professional development training for the microelectronics design sector

Plextek is seeing new business opportunities across sectors including defence, wireless comms and security. As a result it has embarked on a recruitment drive which should increase the size of its workforce by more than ten per cent during the next few months.

For electronic engineers and specialists wanting to work anywhere in the world, Cambridge is a good potential route to Heathrow.

Bristol and its environs have become synonymous as an area for leading edge CMOS chip design

Shortages of high-tech engineering skills are threatening to jeopardise economic growth and competitiveness in the UK, according to the IET

TDC is running a training day for high-frequency and low-frequency RFID at Texas Instruments’ head quarters in Northampton