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This year’s National Apprenticeship Week in the UK runs from 5 to 11 February. The initiative targets all industries and sectors, but for the electronics industry, there is a particular need for programmes that equip apprentices with STEM skills. Among the companies and organisations taking part, there is the STEM Hub, which will be hosting live career talks by STEM ...

CSA Catapult, the organisation tasked with commercialising UK compound semiconductor innovation, is to expand into centres in Bristol, Glasgow and Durham. Currently based in Newport, South Wales, it will open: Future Telecoms Hub at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, CSA Scotland at the University of Strathclyde’s Technology Innovation Centre, and an office with the Satellite Applications Catapult at NETPark ...

Melexis is encouraging innovation and drawing on the rich pool of local technology graduates at its newly-opened Innovation Lab. Positioned in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, the Melexis Innovation Lab is the latest addition to the Belgian company’s site in Bevaix, near Geneva. The lab was opened in December 2022 and is a centre for pre-development of sensor technology products ...

The organisation, Women in Electronics, has announced the inaugural European summit which will be held on Thursday 20 April. Women in Electronics has held an annual conference in the US since 2016, including virtual conferences during the Covid pandemic years. Now, the organisation is holding its first European event which will be held in UK, at the McLaren Applied facility ...

Hampshire-based company STEM Returners is partnering with aerospace engineering firm Leonardo to address the skills shortage in the UK engineering industry. The fully paid placements aim to return or transfer experienced engineers back into industry following a career break, with roles at the business covering software, hardware, firmware and project engineering. Specifically, Leonardo has launched a new 12-week returners’ programme ...

Electronics design and software development consultancy Ignys is looking for engineering staff for its Nottingham base. “We are experiencing a high amount of interest from inventors and product managers, and the technology industry is experiencing a boom as businesses adapt to a new way of thinking and trying new things” said MD Richard Fletcher. “We need to look to the future ...

With UK schools closed for the foreseeable future due to covid-19, classrooms have been moved online. STEM Learning, a government, charity and industry backed education provider, has made a tranche of resources available on its site to assist teachers during current circumstances. The organisation has launched an area on its website to host materials generated by itself and other trusted ...

For this year’s UK Robotics Week, UK-RAS has launched two creative competitions based around drawing and story-writing. The contests are open to key stage 1 & 2 children respectively, and prizes including programmable robot kits and experiment kits are up for grabs. For the “Draw a robot” competition, children in key stage 1 (five to seven years old) are asked ...

The government has announced forty-one universities will host doctoral training partnerships (DTPs) funded by a £179m investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The DTP investment was announced alongside the first nine Stephen Hawking Fellows, who will “continue Professor Stephen Hawking’s legacy” through research and STEM outreach, and funding to ...

Element14, Farnell’s online community dedicated to engineering discussion and education, is supplementing classroom-based STEM with a free series of videos entitled ‘The Learning Circuit’. First launched in 2017, the series, hosted by Karen Corbeill, still sees regular uploads. A recent series focused on the BBC micro:bit, taking viewers through “different ways to learn and explore with the BBC micro:bit”. The short ...