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Skills Special
Welcome to our Skills Special blog post. We always include a ‘skills’ item in our normal quarterly newsletter (sign up on the homepage) but, as skills is one of the […]
Let’s Talk About Skills, Again – Then Act
Earlier this month The IET published the results of their annual Skills & Demand in Industry survey. Did we learn anything new with this survey? In my view – no, […]
Electromagnetism: The Overlooked Force of Nature
Let’s start by recapping about the electromagnetic force. Electromagnetism is a branch of science involving the study of electromagnetic forces, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged […]
In Case You Missed It
Raising awareness about Electronics is a fundamental part of our mission at the UKESF. We know that Electronics is the future and it is a sector driven by innovation and […]
Stop ‘Encouraging’ Girls. Start Encouraging Employers and Teachers.
Last Friday was International Women in Engineering Day again, and I return to a topic that I’ve written about previously – improving gender balance in Electronic Engineering. Modern day Electronics […]
Improving Gender Balance
Earlier this year we published a guest blog from Emma, one of our UKESF Scholars; it was a really insightful piece entitled ‘Where are the Queues for the Loos?’. Reflecting […]
Guest blog post: Where are the queues for the loos?
At the UKESF we recognise that trying to get more girls involved with Electronics is a key part of tackling the skills challenge. We asked Emma, one of our final-year UKESF […]
“Well Done, Considerably Better than I was Expecting”
So let me start with a question: what connects the explorer Ernest Shackleton, the manufacture of paper aeroplanes, a fire in a fictitious factory in Taiwan and footballs with personal […]
Wither Electronics at Secondary Schools?
Back in the early eighties when I was at school I was pretty sure that I wanted to be an Engineer – I’d been curious about how things worked from […]
National Women in Engineering Day 2016
Although 23rd June this year will be long remembered as the date of the EU Referendum vote, it was also National Women in Engineering Day (NWED). This was created in […]