PLACINGS: Partnership for LAunching Careers in engineerING and Sciences

通过在学术界和工业界合作伙伴之间建立富有想象力的协同作用，该项目将在公众参与和社会互动方面发挥领导作用，通过提高公众对工程研究的赞赏来激励社会，吸引年轻人从事工程和物理科学方面的职业，并帮助代表性不足的类别获得STEM学科的教育。来自工程和物理科学的科技创新对于促进英国经济增长、提高生活质量和确保国家安全至关重要。为了保持和进一步提高英国在工程领域的国际地位，需要高等教育机构提供一个高技能的专业人才，可以在工程学科之间的信心和流动性。令人遗憾的是，学校和大学目前还没有优化，以满足这些高技能人才的需求，因为研究生水平的缺口每年达到2万人。女性和少数族裔群体代表着大量尚未开发的人力资本。如果英国要解决工程和物理科学领域的严重技能短缺问题，就需要激发更多年轻人的热情，吸引他们从事工程职业，必须计划采取有力行动，让代表性不足的群体参与进来。为了解决这些问题，我们将设计活动，以展示工程研究的广度和重要性，吸引代表性不足的群体在工程和物理科学的职业生涯，并促进学校和行业之间更紧密的联系。该项目最初将汇集拉夫堡大学和工业合作伙伴BIAS Ltd，DNV GL和TFM Networks。在该项目期间，将积极招募其他合作伙伴，并与学校和决策者密切接触。工作包中设计的活动将专门用于支持学校实现相关的盖茨比基准。该基准最近由职业和企业公司制定，并确定了学校应遵循的八项指导方针的框架，以便为学生提供最佳职业指导。我们将通过撰写政策简报，并在项目网站和社交媒体渠道上宣传，以吸引人和有影响力的方式向政策制定者提供项目成果。政策简报将使议会能够制定未来的政策，以填补英国的工程技能缺口。

By establishing imaginative synergies between academia and industrial partners, this project will provide leadership in public engagement and social interaction to inspire society by enhancing public appreciation of engineering research, to attract young minds to a fulfilling career in engineering and physical sciences, and to help underrepresented categories access education in STEM subjects.The scientific and technologic innovation coming from engineering and physical sciences is vital for boosting economic growth, improving quality of life and ensuring national security in the UK. To maintain and further enhance UK's international standing in the engineering sector requires higher education institutions to provide a pipeline of highly skilled professionals that can move between engineering disciplines with confidence and fluidity. Regrettably, schools and universities are not currently optimised to meet the demand of such high-skilled individuals, as the graduate-level shortfall is hitting the 20,000 people-per-year mark. A large untapped human capital is represented by women and minority ethnic groups.If the UK is to address its massive skill shortage in engineering and physical sciences, many more young minds need to be enthused and attracted to a career in engineering, and vigorous actions must be planned to involve underrepresented groups. To address these issues, we will design activities to demonstrate the breadth and importance of engineering research, to attract underrepresented groups to careers in engineering and physical sciences, and to facilitate stronger connections between schools and industry. The project will initially bring together Loughborough University and industrial partners BIAS Ltd, DNV GL, and TFM Networks. Other partners will be actively recruited during the project.This project will involve close engagement with schools and policymakers. The activities designed in the work packages will be tailored to support schools to achieve the relevant Gatsby Benchmarks. The Benchmarks were recently formulated by the Careers and Enterprise Company and define a framework of eight guidelines that schools should follow in order to offer top careers guidance to their students. We will make the project results accessible to policymakers in an engaging and influential way by writing a policy brief, which we will advertise on the project website and social media channels. The policy brief will enable Parliament to shape future policies to fill the engineering skills gap in the UK.