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Gender initiatives and tech study – are they working?

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I am not going to make a call on that one but whilst the latest applications data from UCAS (released today) show some improvement over the past five years in the proportion of applicants (UK domiciled) for Computer Science courses that were female, the gender balance is still below the peak (from data available) experienced in 2010. Moreover, the chart below is just to illustrate the relative change (i.e. indexed)… Read More »Gender initiatives and tech study – are they working?

What will hospitality businesses and hotels/accommodation firms in particular do when BREXIT arrives?

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Latest stats (Q4.17) show that 20% of the hotels/accommodation industry workforce are EU nationals – that is 69,000 people out of 345,000 in total. Moreover, there are 12,000 other individuals from outside the UK (nationality) working in the industry illustrating just how reliant it is upon overseas labour and skills. Perhaps surprisingly, the other key component of the ‘hospitality’ sector – restaurant/catering, though a large employer of overseas nationals, is… Read More »What will hospitality businesses and hotels/accommodation firms in particular do when BREXIT arrives?

Achieving gender balance in engineering may take 90 years

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Analysis of the latest data from the ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS), shows that despite an abundance of finance/initiatives to increase the level of female representation within the engineering ‘professions’ (a set of ‘core’ occupations identified by Engineering UK within their Annual – State of Engineering report) – the gender balance for engineering actually declined slightly during the past year i.e. the proportion of individuals in engineering roles that were… Read More »Achieving gender balance in engineering may take 90 years

Demand for tech specialists up by 15%

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Interesting beta data from a new(ish) European project (aiming to provide a free vacancy data tracking service) shows there were approximately 59,000 advertised vacancies for tech specialists in the UK during the final quarter of 2017 – a 15% increase on the previous year. The most notable increase in demand over the Q4.16-7 period was for telecoms engineers (up 118%) though demand for networking professionals as a group was down… Read More »Demand for tech specialists up by 15%