2 to 15 April 2016

The last two weeks saw the launch of the Big ideas: the future of engineering in schools report which achieved coverage in a range of engineering and education trade press including the Times Educational Supplement. There was also assorted coverage in regional and trade media for Institution events around the UK and follow up coverage from the Institution’s comments on the possible closure of Tata Steel’s UK operations and the Engineering the UK electricity gap policy statement released earlier in the year.

• 12/04/2016 Teach engineering to primary pupils, new report says – Times Educational Supplement (TES)

  Article about the Institution’s new report Big ideas: the future of engineering in schools. There was a second TES article on the report as well as pick-up in Professional Engineering, Education Business, Schools Week, The Training Journal, EdQuarter, The Engineer, Education Technology, New Civil Engineer, Process & Control Today, Education Business, Engineering Materials, Energy Global, Eureka Magazine, ACR News, Process Engineering, Engineering Specifier, Process & Control, Cooling Post, Ground Engineering, Grad Cracker and Capita Education.

   

• 15/04/2016 Railway celebrates opening of interactive exhibition – The Gazette & Herald

  Article about the opening of a new interactive exhibition at North Yorkshire Moors Railway by the Institution’s President prof Richard Folkson.

   

• 05/04/2016 Derbyshire soldier receives prestigious award – Derbyshire Times

  A soldier was presented with a prestigious engineering award by the Institution’s Chief Executive Stephen Tetlow MBE. The news was also picked up in The Ripley and Heanor News.

   

• 07/04/2016 IMechE visits Hutchinson Engineering – ADS Advance

  Thirty Institution members were given an exclusive insight into Hutchinson Engineering's technical operations at its base in Kilrea, Northern Ireland.

   

• 04/04/2016 Apprentices put to the test – News Post Leader

  The Institution’s Denis Healy comments on an event where four British Engines apprentices faced questions from local schoolchildren.

   

• 07/04/2016 Budget criticised for lack of energy-efficiency measures – Plant & Works Engineering

  Article which refers to the Institution’s Engineering the UK electricity gap policy statement released earlier this year. The policy statement was also picked up in Moneyweek.

   

• 05/04/2016 Steel: The need for a holistic approach – Plants & Works Engineer

  Article citing comments from the Institution’s Philippa Oldham about the future of UK steel.

   

• 08/04/2016 A Huge Prefab Housing Factory Wants to Shake Up the UK Construction Industry – Curbed

Article citing the Institution’s UK housebuilding: manufacturing affordable quality homes policy statement.