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Drive To Encourage More Women To Become Engineers

The UK needs 1-million more engineers over the next 5 years. More women, the argument goes, need to become engineers. The University of Northampton holds a special day.

The UK will need one million more engineers over the next five years and there’s a drive to encourage more women to become engineers.

Reporter Martin Borley meets female engineering and vehicle maintenance students at Tresham College in Corby, and Stuart talks to Paul Westbury, the boss of international engineering consultants Buro Happold. He's also a judge for the Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize.

Stuart also talks to Dan Barker, Head of the School for Engineering at Tresham College, to the Human Resources Director at Cummins Daventry, Dot Boyles, and to Trish Goodchild, the University of Northampton’s Coordinator for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths).

Also:

• some traders in Oundle say the recently-launched Waitrose there “is killing Oundleâ€
• what South Northants MP Andrea Leadsom is doing to help the Dunhams fight extradition
• the Moulton College apprentice who’s been offered a job unlike some of his student friends
• meeting another nominee for the title of Northampton’s “Inspirational Woman 2014â€

3 hours

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  • Wed 5 Mar 2014 06:00

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