{"id":1301,"date":"2020-08-05T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ic-resources-main.local\/are-we-abandoning-an-industry-responsible-for-6-of-our-gdp\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:11:46","slug":"are-we-abandoning-an-industry-responsible-for-6-of-our-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/us\/blogs\/are-we-abandoning-an-industry-responsible-for-6-of-our-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we abandoning an industry responsible for 6% of our GDP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\"><em>Hotels and restaurants, construction and healthcare are already anticipating dramatic skills shortages as Brexit threatens to consign free movement of people to history.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">The question now, is whether the electronics industry is to be condemned to the same desperate fate?<\/h3>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukesf.org\/donate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">donating&nbsp;to UKESF<\/a>&nbsp;today, you can give back to the industry that gives you fresh coffee, and perfectly toasted bread and ensure that the electronics industry remains key to the UK economy for a generation.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">The UK electronics sector is big business. Over 1,000,000 related jobs. &pound;98 billion annual turnover. The 6th largest electronics industry in the world. Yet, we&rsquo;re raising kids who, when asked about electronics, seem to think we&rsquo;re talking about screen time.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">With only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukesf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17-UKESF011-UKESF-Infographics-Update-A4-1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">25% of engineering grads<\/a>&nbsp;studying electrical and electronic engineering, are we driving the industry head-first into a skills shortage that could put our position as a leading global electronics provider in jeopardy?<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">In fact, in a 2017&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukesf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Skills-Survey-2017_TechWorks-UKESF.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">survey that we commissioned alongside TechWorks and UKESF<\/a>, 70% of companies surveyed had experienced a skills shortage in the 12 months prior to the survey.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">These challenges aren&rsquo;t going to redress themselves. Our days (and nights) are becoming increasingly driven by electronics. The UK is ideally placed to take the lead internationally IF it develops the right skills.<\/p>\n<h3 new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">So, is the State responsible for keeping the electrical engineering industry at the back of the wardrobe, only daring to bring it out occasionally?<\/h3>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Yes and no. The introduction of government-imposed measures such as the EBacc seems sensible in encouraging STEM in general. However, funding is a constant pressure, leaving schools unable to invest in essential equipment to give students hands-on experience of subjects like electronics. This means schools are, through no fault of their own, short-changing the skilled sectors of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Who will choose to take on &lsquo;A&rsquo; levels or even a degree based on a couple of hours&rsquo; experience at the most basic level? Hands up? It&rsquo;s time we accept that the system isn&rsquo;t gearing up to encourage students into the industry.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Thankfully, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukesf.org\/employers\/electronics-everywhere\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">UK Electronics Skills Foundation&rsquo;s (UKESF) &ldquo;Electronics Everywhere&rdquo; <\/a>campaign is stepping up to provide opportunities for hands-on experience in electronics and electrical engineering for &lsquo;A&rsquo; Level Computing and Physics students. UKESF depends on donations and grants to provide electronics boards and sets for schools.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Last year, IC Resources was one of a cohort of companies who each donated &pound;2,000 to &ldquo;Electronics Everywhere&rdquo; to give students hands-on experience that will make a difference that stretches beyond the classroom into an entire industry.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">You could do your bit to make a difference too. For just &pound;1,200, you can provide classroom sets of boards and essential training for teachers at two schools that could ignite young interests in electronics. Given that these boards might be used by 3 students each, for an average of 5 years, that&rsquo;s about &pound;2 per access to a hands-on electronics experience.<\/p>\n<h3 new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Just 1,000 more electronics professionals in the market would easily add over a billion pounds to the Exchequer during their careers, this seems a pretty good ROI.<\/h3>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Of the boards we donated, one set went to a school of our choice, and a further set went to an underfunded state school identified by the UKESF and the Institute of Physics. These boards are now being used within &lsquo;A&rsquo; level Physics lessons to give students a taste of electronics that extends beyond Instagram and Snapchat. A taste of electronics that may well ignite a passion or spark an interest that will last a lifetime or even many lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Of course, if you have no money set aside for that new coffee machine (or you just COULDN&rsquo;T do without it), you can still do your bit, as UKESF offers a wide variety of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukesf.org\/donate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">opportunities for organisations to step up<\/a>&nbsp;and bridge the funding gap to support the next generation of electronics engineers. Whether you wish to donate a fiver to enable a school child to create a basic electronics circuit, or whether you can find &pound;1,500 to provide a bursary for a female undergrad at one of the UKESF&rsquo;s partner universities, your contribution will benefit an industry at risk.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">We can&rsquo;t hide an entire industry in the cupboard beneath the stairs and then be surprised when it gathers dust and falls into a state of disrepair.<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\">Besides, given that skilled candidates are having to jump through an increasing number of hoops to migrate to the UK, shouldn&rsquo;t we be adding as many home-grown candidates to the talent pool as possible?<\/p>\n<p new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\" times=\"\"><strong>For now, maybe it&rsquo;s time that we all step up to prevent the eventual short-changing of our electronics industry.&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukesf.org\/donate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to support UKESF today.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UKESF provide opportunities for hands-on learning to students at every level. With just \u00a31,200 your business could inspire the next generation of electrical engineers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":4323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,551,550],"location":[],"salary_guide":[],"job_sector":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-blogs","category-our-insights","category-industry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are we abandoning an industry responsible for 6% of our GDP?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UKESF provide opportunities for hands-on learning to students at every level.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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