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Balancing skills and innovation to level up


their views on what it means to the engineering profession. Whilst Engineering UK focuses on skills availability and the need to attract future engineering human resources, the Royal Academy of Engineering adds innovation to skills as an essential element to overcoming current imbalances. The Academy says that reinvigorating economic prosperity across different regions of the country depends on engineered infrastructure and innovation. Head of Public Affairs at Engineering UK, Beatrice Barleon says, “We welcome


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the long-term vision of the levelling up white paper and its recognition of the importance of education and skills in ensuring opportunity is spread more equally across the country,” she says. Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering adds, “I encourage a continued focus on innovation to transfer the strength of our research base across the UK into technology, engineering and high-value manufacturing, to the benefit of local communities.” It’s essential that skills and investment in infrastructure and innovation are balanced in order to achieve the right outcome. An extreme illustration of how tricky it can be to achieve this balance is


the Moinak Hydro-Electric power station in Central Asia. I visited the site at its commissioning 10 years ago. The impressive state-of-the-art facility had had hundreds of millions invested in it and was a showcase of international engineering co-operation. However, reaching it was a difficult 8-hour drive, some of which was on


unpaved roads. Although I was there to look at the technology, it became clear that human resources represented an enormous challenge. During my interview with the plant director, a man in late middle age, who had built his experience in the hydro plants of the Soviet Union, he told me he couldn’t staff the site. “The skills don’t exist. Older experienced engineers have moved on, retired or


don’t want to re-locate. Younger ones aren’t attracted to the remote location – there are no bars, no cinemas, no social life here so they won’t come,” he told me. Attracting the right skills into the places where they’re needed is equally as


important as investing in infrastructure and innovation, the two are inseparable. Jonathan Newell, Editor, Testing & Test Houses


he term “levelling up” has been used extensively recently to primarily address the imbalance of opportunities between regions of the UK and between different social groups of people. This very broad term can be applied to education, access to jobs, the extent of infrastructure and funding opportunities to name just a few.


Recently, Engineering UK and the Royal Academy of Engineering have added


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