Future skills
Welcome to Future skills, a brand-new podcast season brought to you by City & Guilds and FE News.
Episode 1: Engineering Solutions
We are joined by Dr Rhys Morgan, Engineering Director at the Royal Academy of Engineering and Becky Ridler from Not Just Girls to discuss careers advice, diversity and key actions employers and training providers can take to address current and future skills challenges in engineering.
- Careers advice and guidance for schools, career returners, and how engineering employers can better engage with schools to develop talent pipelines.
- The importance of modular learning, stackable skills, micro-credentials, and badging to develop specialist skills.
- How automation, digitalisation, and AI are influencing the engineering sector more than almost any other.
- Recent changes in apprenticeships and technical education, and how they will impact skills development over the next 3–5 years.
- Diversity in STEM – with only 16% of the STEM workforce being female, what can employers and the FE sector do to increase participation?
- Key actions employers and training providers can take to address current and future skills challenges in engineering.