Communications Briefing 12 to 18 May 2018

Institution in the News

Peter Finegold’s reaction to news that thousands of engineers have been denied entry to the UK on account of Theresa May’s visa scheme, was picked up by the Independent, the Daily Mail and a number of regional papers.

• 16/05/18 Theresa May's 'arbitrary' visa scheme denies entry to thousands of foreign doctors, engineers and scientists with UK job offers – Independent

  News that more than 6,000 visa applications for highly skilled workers like scientists, IT specialists and doctors with job offers in the UK were refused because of a Government-imposed cap on numbers. Also featured in the Independent, the Daily Mail, BT’s news site, Lancashire Evening Post, Wigan Today, East London & West Essex Guardian, News & Star, Smallholder, This Is Local London, Gazette Herald, Oxford Times, Epsom Guardian, Sutton Guardian, Hendon & Finchley, Barnet & Potters Bar, Edgware & Mill Hill Times, Chard and Illminster News, Cotswold Journal, Chorley Citizen, Hillingdon & Uxbridge Times and Salisbury Journal.
  
  

• 16/05/18 Gender pay gap: How does the rail industry compare? – Rail Staff
  Article which explores new legislation which has made it compulsory for all companies in the UK employing more than 250 people to publish details of the gender pay gap within their business. Features Peter Finegold’s comment that the figures reflect the important issue of under-representation of women in the sector and underscores how common it is that there are not enough women in senior positions or lucrative roles.
• 14/05/18 Waterworks Museum receives Engineering Heritage Award – Hereford Times
  News that the Worth-Mackenzie triple expansion, one of the oldest triple-expansion, double-acting, condensing steam engine still operating in the UK, has been presented with an Engineering Heritage Award. Also featured in Process and Control.
• 14/05/18 Report advises UK to invest in energy storage for hydrogen generated from renewables – Energy Digital
  Continued coverage of the Institution’s report which highlights that government should invest more in energy technology in a bid to reduce reliance on imported gas. Also featured in Hydrogen Fuel News.
  
• 11/05/18 How autonomous car design will transform fleet – Business Car
  Article outlining that car design will change in the next decade more than at any other time in its 132-year history. Features a prediction from the Institution that the UK will have a 100% highly automated fleet by 2040 and a fully autonomous UK fleet by 2050, and that there are other issues that will need to be solved as well, from cybersecurity, insurance liability, business-case cost and legislative hurdles to jump.

• 14/05/18 Report advises UK to invest in energy storage for hydrogen generated from renewables – Energy Digital 
  Continued coverage of the Institution’s report which highlights that government should invest more in energy technology in a bid to reduce reliance on imported gas. Also featured in Hydrogen Fuel News.

• 11/05/18 How autonomous car design will transform fleet – Business Car
  Article outlining that car design will change in the next decade more than at any other time in its 132-year history. Features a prediction from the Institution that the UK will have a 100% highly automated fleet by 2040 and a fully autonomous UK fleet by 2050, and that there are other issues that will need to be solved as well, from cybersecurity, insurance liability, business-case cost and legislative hurdles to jump.
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