National Apprenticeship Week is here, with this year’s theme being ‘skills for life’. In this article, we hear from Steven Hurst, Director of Corporate Learning at Arden University, who discusses how engineering organisations can help their employees develop the critical, lifelong skills needed to support the industry’s growth.

In its 2024 report, Tech Nation revealed that the UK’s tech sector is booming, as it boasts 171 ‘unicorns’ and a market valuation of $1.1 trillion. Although we had the tech boom during the pandemic, which saw many companies demanding IT and technology skills, we later saw things plateau – with mass redundancies at the big five threatening many in the industry. But simultaneously, the rise of AI and technological ...

In this article, Professor Georgina Harris, Dean of the Faculty of STEM at Arden University, explores why engineering needs to refresh its image to thrive and explains what she believes needs to change.