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Engineering students from diverse backgrounds to get new enterprise training to break down employment barriers and keep them in industry
University of Bath engineering students from minority backgrounds are set to be offered additional training in enterprise and starting their own businesses through an innovative new project, following a £100,000 funding award from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The new “Building unconventional engineering careers: creating your unique fit” pilot project will equip the next generation of the University’s engineering graduates with entrepreneurial skills and personal attributes to help them successfully navigate the professional contexts currently dominated by those from more privileged social and economic backgrounds. The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has awarded the project a total of £99,900 through its competitive Engineering Diversity Impact scheme. This will allow Faculty staff to set up the training and support programme, which will run from March 2023 to September 2024, to provide alternative career pathways to minority engineering graduates marginalised by existing practice, reducing engineering career deflection at entry stage. Dr Despina Moschou, the Faculty’s equality, diversity and inclusion champion, said: “We are delighted to be able to offer this additional training programme, thanks to this new financial support from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
“There is a clear need to help keep people from groups that are under- represented in engineering industries from dropping out, due to lack of opportunity or structural barriers – particularly women, BAME people, and
people from underprivileged economic backgrounds. Our new programme will go some way to addressing the imbalance and help participants start their careers more confidently.”
A staggering 70% of women and 55% of BAME people leave engineering professions within 10 years, compared to 39% of white males, with the most departures happening at entry stage. Among engineers employed six months after graduation in the UK, 36% of BAME (vs 27% of white) and 34% of women (vs 28% of male) were in non-engineering roles.
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New brand identity for IMP Software as company steps up mission to support smarter MAT finance
the past three years, IMP Software is now preparing for the next phase of its journey supporting smarter MAT finance. This drive is boosted further by the team growing to 40 people for the start of 2023. “Our company logo and branding were pulled together back when we were starting out as a ‘two-man band’ and, whilst they have served us well until this point, as a business we are maturing and will be adding to what we do in the coming months, so we wanted to take the opportunity to ensure our visual identity truly reflected us as an organisation, yet also gave us scope to evolve further in the coming years,” Will said. “Whilst we are changing our visual identify, our core values and the way that we do things will not, so our customers can be assured that we will of course remain dedicated to the continual development of our products and delivering excellent customer service and support. As the market grows and matures, so must our offering to continue to provide a five-star service (as evidenced by Trustpilot reviews). This is an exciting time for everybody at IMP and I would like to thank everyone for helping us along the way this far.”
Education sector leader IMP Software, which supports over 220 multi- academy trusts (MATs) with its budgeting, forecasting and reporting software, has unveiled an exciting new brand identity as it approaches its fourth anniversary.
The company, which was co-founded by Will Jordan and Dave Hall in February 2019, has revealed a new logo, brand colour scheme and fonts, and website to reflect its transition from “a plucky start-up” to a fully established systems provider now serving one in three large Trusts and around 20% of the overall MAT market.
Having doubled its customer base and staff headcount year-on-year for
Will added: “Our growth has benefitted all our customers through greater support and more extensive and more rapid product development. We are working on other market-first solutions designed to help MAT finance teams deliver effective financial management which we will launch this year. We also pride ourselves on wider knowledge sharing and building connectivity across the sector, as demonstrated through the MATFAs, The MAT Finance Show and our insight reports. Our core values of support, innovation and being MAT-first remain at the heart of everything we do as a business.”
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