LONDON, November 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
In an interview for a programme entitled 'Working to Engineer a Better World', screened at the IET Innovation Awards dinner, Mr Boles discusses government steps to tackle the engineering and technology skills shortage and explains that manufacturing and engineering is not part of 'Britain's Victorian past', but part of Britain's 21st Century future.
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'Working to Engineer a Better World' is an in-depth online programme produced by ITN Productions in partnership with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The news-style programme showcases the increasingly diverse and multi-disciplinary nature of engineering and involves interviews, news-style reports and sponsored editorial profiles of some of the leading organisations in the sector.
The programme also highlights the urgent need for the right skills to serve the UK engineering industry properly. Clive Selley, CEO BT Technology, said: "To create the telecommunications industry of the future we require bright, young, highly-educated people to teach us how tomorrow's customers will use our products".
The IET Innovation Awards ceremony, held on November, 19th 2014, celebrated innovation and the future of a diverse workforce in the engineering and technology sector. Matt Tarn, an Engineering Apprentice at Nestlé, said the role of the engineer is changing: "It's no longer people coming into contact with the product, it's people coming into contact with the machinery and making it work more efficiently and improving it."
Nigel Fine, Chief Executive, the Institution of Engineering and Technology said, "Engineering is central to Britain's future economic success but this could be put in jeopardy if we do not have enough young people coming into the sector to help with the major issues that affect us all, such as energy security, the next generation of transport systems and high-speed broadband.
"There is a serious skills shortage in engineering and we hope that this new programme from ITN will help to inspire, inform and influence people to understand that engineering is an exciting and rewarding career path with excellent prospects."
To see the full programme, more ITN Productions' interviews and specialised content from industry professionals and experts within the engineering and technology sector, please visit http://www.theiet.org/itn
Participants in 'Working to Engineer a Better World' include:
In addition, the programme includes interviews with key individuals, such as:
About ITN Productions:
ITN Productions is ITN's bespoke production hub producing creative and commercially valuable content for the corporate, commercial, broadcast and digital sectors. Industry News forms part of this offering and is a communications tool for leading industry bodies and national associations produced in a broadcast news programme format, including interviews, news-style items and sponsored editorial profiles.
For more information visit: http://www.itnproductions.co.uk
About the IET:
The IET is one of the world's largest engineering institutions with nearly 160,000 members in 127 countries. It is also the most multidisciplinary - to reflect the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century. Energy, transport, manufacturing, information and communications, and the built environment: the IET covers them all.
The IET is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing our members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers.
To learn more about the programme productions and/or enquire about how to embed the full programme onto your site please get in touch:
Hakan Sezer
Digital Marketing Executive
ITN Productions
Tel: +44(0)207-430-4052
Email: hakan.sezer@itn.co.uk
For media enquiries about the Institution of Engineering and Technology please contact:
Robert Beahan
External Communications Manager
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Tel: +44(0)1438-767-336
Email: rbeahan@theiet.org
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