9 July to 22 July

The past two weeks saw widespread coverage for Formula Student, throughout the BBC network, the Press & Journal and a raft of trade, regional and international news outlets. Comments by the Institution’s Chief Executive about reforms to UK technical education were picked-up in the trade press; there was regional news coverage of the Presidential visit to Cumbria and trade pick up on comments by the Institution on Government plans not to invest in Carbon Capture and Storage technology.

• 16/07/2016 Formula Student new report – BBC Radio Northampton

  BBC Radio Northampton covered the event closely with a number of different news reports, including an interview with the Institution’s Beth Georgiou BBC Radio Northampton. There was also Formula Student coverage in BBC News online, Autocar, The Sheffield Star, The Press & Journal, E&T Magazine,  The Sheffield Telegraph, The Engineer, Electronic Specifier, Body Shop Magazine, Process & Control Today, Eureka Magazine, Doncaster Free Press, South Yorkshire Press, Thorne & District Gazette, The Yorkshire Times, Event Industry News, Doncaster Free Press, Morningstar,  Weekend Nation (Sri Lanka) and Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).

   

• 17/07/2016 Students get chance to test their race cars at Mira in Nuneaton – Nuneaton News

  News article on the Formula Student Learn to Win Live event that took place at Mira.

   

• 12/07/2016 Radical reforms to 'over-complex' technical education system announced – The Training Journal

  Article featuring comments from the Institution’s Stephen Tetlow on reforms to UK technical education. His comments were also picked up in Eureka.

   

• 22/07/2016 Cumbria’s engineering prowess praised – Choose Cumbria

  Article about the visit by the Institution’s President, Jon Hilton, to pharmaceutical company GSK in Ulverston.

   

• 21/07/2016 Are Your Decisions Evidence Based? – Forbes

  Comments by the Institution’s Dr Jenifer Baxter are picked up in an article about evidence-based decision-making.

   

• 20/07/2016 UK energy policy needs direction – renews

  Article about the Institution’s response to a National Audit Office briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee on sustainability in the spending review and specifically the report’s comments on Carbon Capture and Storage. The Institution’s comments were also picked up in edie.net

   

• 13/07/2016 Loughborough students win 2016 UAS Challenge – The Engineer

  Report on the winners of this year’s UAS Challenge.

   

• 19/07/2016 Are automated vehicles automatically low carbon? – Electronic Specifier

Article about a new research document from the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at the University of Leeds, commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) and the Institution.