Technician Seminar
The profile of Technicians and their invaluable contribution to the engineering sector and in turn the economic success of the UK by the press, government and professional bodies has notably increased over the past few years. However, the issues relating to the supply and demand for highly skilled Technicians remains steeped in anecdote rather than founded on robust data.
The ETB hosted a ‘Technicians’ seminar in November 2007
bringing together experts from the different Sector Skills
Councils, Professional Bodies, Institutions, Academia and
Industry to debate the current supply and demand of
Technicians in the UK – seeking to answer the question
“do the numbers really add up?”
The ETB appointed the research consultancy FreshMinds
to help frame the discussion and summarise the main
topics of the debate. This briefing paper summarises
these discussions and hopes to help crystallise the
debate and provide common ground for moving forward.
Click here to read the seminar summary
