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A-Level students reach the educational crossroads of life

Students will this Thursday have to make decisions on the route they are to follow on the Apprenticeship of life!

Their decisions will be based on the Information Advice and Guidance that they have been given at school and six form and this is an area that is unfortunately under-performing.

In view of the limited Careers Advice that is available to schools following on from the demise of Connexions ECITB are again to deliver our Schools Roadshow between September and December

Be a Part of Engineering Construction’ will travel the length and breadth of the country until the beginning of December. It will be visiting over 90 specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) secondary schools, delivering close to 200 performances reaching more than 20,000 young people.

Miranda Hall, Head of Marketing and Communications at the ECITB said:

“Research we have recently conducted showed that 48% of young people didn’t know what engineering Construction was so we wanted to develop our educational programme to increase awareness of the sector and promote the benefits of an engineering construction career.

There are a vast range of different career paths – it’s not all about manual work – and at a time when the UK is crying out for skilled people to help modernise our infrastructure, this roadshow should help to show the adults of tomorrow that there’s more to engineering construction than meets the eye.“

For 2012 UK university applications, the biggest demand for places is in engineering, said UK government minister Vince Cable, speaking at the August 7th ‘British Business Embassy’ event on energy held during the Olympics at Lancaster House in central London.

The UK government’s analysis of British demand university places in 2012 shows that the biggest demand is actually for engineering places, said Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, ‘People looking at their future careers and deciding that engineering is the best field to be in.’

The Engineering Construction Industry has great opportunities for new work coming into the region We will need engineers, technicians, designers, planners and craftsmen and women over the next few years. A level graduates could consider university to go on and get their degrees and post grad qualifications and become the engineers of the future. A level graduates who do not want to go to university could enrol on a technician apprenticeship or get into Design and Draughting or Project Controls. Those who, for whatever reason were not successful could still consider a craft or technician apprenticeship.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Don Atkinson .