Graduate shortage: the key to civil engineering's future?
Graduate shortage: the key to civil engineering's future?
Recent years have seen a steady decline in admissions to UK civil engineering degree courses such that an intense skills shortage looms. Civil engineering graduates will be in greater demand than ever before—but ironically this could finally trigger the increase in status that the profession has sought for so long. This paper reveals the roller-coaster trend in university admissions since 1966 and shows why many of the engineering departments across the country are now struggling to survive. But, reassuringly, there are signs that the profession is at last attracting an increasing number of high-calibre students.
education and training, management
161-165
Byfield, M.P.
35515781-c39d-4fe0-86c8-608c87287964
November 2001
Byfield, M.P.
35515781-c39d-4fe0-86c8-608c87287964
Byfield, M.P.
(2001)
Graduate shortage: the key to civil engineering's future?
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering, 144 (4), .
(doi:10.1680/cien.144.1.161.39551).
Abstract
Recent years have seen a steady decline in admissions to UK civil engineering degree courses such that an intense skills shortage looms. Civil engineering graduates will be in greater demand than ever before—but ironically this could finally trigger the increase in status that the profession has sought for so long. This paper reveals the roller-coaster trend in university admissions since 1966 and shows why many of the engineering departments across the country are now struggling to survive. But, reassuringly, there are signs that the profession is at last attracting an increasing number of high-calibre students.
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Published date: November 2001
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Byfield M. P., (2001). "Graduate shortage: the key to civil engineering's future?." Civil Engineering: proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. 144, 161-165
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education and training, management
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/53918
ISSN: 0965-089X
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