Extra Government investment may create more graduate engineering jobs

There was some great news for engineering jobs this week after the Government announced extra investment for the manufacturing and engineering sector. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills last week announced that they are to invest around £51 million to keep the UK at the cutting edge of technological research.

Engineering jobs to be created in Cranfield, Strathclyde and Nottingham

Most of the additional £51 million of Government money will go towards setting up national Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centres for Innovative Manufacturing, which will create jobs in locations such as Strathclyde, Nottingham and Cranfield.

It is hoped that the money will help create additional graduate engineering jobs in the UK; great news for anyone looking for a job in the engineering sector.

UK manufacturing and engineering to keep UK ‘ahead of the game’

Mark Prisk, the Conservative minister for business and enterprise, said that the government needs to refocus the economy in the 21st century.

"Manufacturing generates £140 billion a year for the economy and accounts for 55 per cent of total UK exports. And increasingly, it is high tech, advanced manufacturing that leads the way.

"But we need to do more to rebalance our economy. These exciting new partnerships between our universities and businesses will play a vital role in keeping UK manufacturing ahead of the game internationally."

The news comes on the back of the announcement from nuclear energy component manufacturer Areva that they expected 100,000 engineering jobs to be created in the UK nuclear power industry over the next few years.