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A coordinated drive to address engineering skills and diversity
Engineering is crucial to the UK economy, underpinning 23% of the UK’s turnover and around half of our exports, and engineers play a critical role in addressing major societal challenges and ensuring our readiness for the future.
Dr Hayaatun Sillem Royal Academy of Engineering
Yet the profession has long faced a significant skills challenge, which is becoming more and more pressing. The latest data from EngineeringUK shows that the UK is facing an
annual shortfall of up to 59,000 engineering graduates and technicians to fill core engineering roles across all sectors.
When the Academy, together with the other 37 organisations that represent professional engineering in the UK, consulted the engineering community on their response to the decision to leave
the EU, a sustainable supply of skills was the single biggest concern among the hundreds of businesses we engaged with.
We cannot address the skills challenge without improving the diversity of the profession. It is a source of great frustration that just 12% of the professional engineering workforce across all sectors is made up of women, and only 8% are from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds. Engineers play a profoundly important role in designing and delivering the physical and digital infrastructure we all rely on, in shaping the way we live, work and travel. So it cannot be right that our profession is still so unrepresentative of the society we serve.
Since 2011, the Academy has been running a profession‐wide programme to increase diversity and inclusion across engineering, bringing together professional engineering organisations, employers and other key partners to stimulate action towards developing a diverse and inclusive profession that can really inspire, attract and retain people from different backgrounds and all parts of society.
One of the key strands of that programme is our Diversity and
The Royal Academy of Engineering leads a profession‐wide programme to increase diversity and inclusion across engineering
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