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WANLOCK
August 14, 2011, 12:44pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator
Illusion
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On the BBC website an article that BP are complaining about lack of engineering skills available for their operations.

Maybe the 'salt and pepper' brigade are overseas, and  higher learning are more involved in media studies and sots science, and not engineering, also apprenticeships and vocational training are no longer available
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Apollo
August 14, 2011, 4:16pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

Forewarned is Forearmed
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You seem to have forgotten that our education system reportedly does not even manage the 3Rs before pupils reach school-leaving age...

Virtually no-one reading this will know what 'paucity' is.
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BenCooper
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It's a kind of South-American fruit, isn't it?
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Apollo
August 14, 2011, 9:25pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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A shortage of engineering skills in the UK could hamper growth at BP's North Sea operations, an executive has said.

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The rest of the company viewed its North Sea operations as a "training ground", with talented workers snapped up to fill posts overseas, Mr Garlick said.

Oil and gas companies are expected to create some 15,000 new jobs in the UK over the next five years, according to the latest research from the industry body Opito.

But it also said that more than half of the 144 companies surveyed cited attracting appropriately skilled staff as their number one challenge.

BBC News - BP 'cannot find skilled workers'
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