Helping learning providers to engage with employers

This two-page bulletin provides a profile of employment in Engineering by Occupation. It lists the principal skills issues in the Engineering sectors and focuses on:

• Skills shortages (where firms have struggled to fill vacancies)
• Skills gaps (where there is a gap between the skills of a firm's employees and those skills required of them)
• Future priority areas

The publication would be particularly useful for:

• FE Curriculum Managers and staff who need to plan to meet the future skills needs of the sector by developing new provision.

This ten-page Executive Summary provides an assessment and uptake of current provision in the metals, mechanical equipment and electrical equipment sectors within the West Midlands region. It demonstrates the skills required and outlines which institutions and COVEs are involved and at what levels.

The publication would be particularly useful for:

• FE Curriculum Managers and staff who need to plan to meet the future skills needs of the sector by developing new provision.