Youth Misspent: Creating routes into engineering for young people

City Voices: A City & Guilds Podcast

Welcome to City & Guilds’ Youth Misspent podcast series, a monthly podcast in which we dive into some of the issues raised in our research report of the same name.
The research found that the odds are being stacked against young people’s futures and career aspirations – particularly the most disadvantaged. So in this series, we want to showcase the work that various industries are doing to integrate young people into their workforces and explore how we might resolve the multiple barriers young people face when trying to enter the workforce.
Hosted by Craig Smith, Managing Director of City & Guilds Gen2, this episode takes a closer look at the engineering sector, which is set to grow significantly over the coming years. However, it is also a sector that faces an ongoing skills shortage due in part to an aging workforce, with a 2020 report finding that almost 20% of engineers in the UK are due to reach retirement age by 2026.
Despite this, our Youth Misspent research found that almost half (42%) of young people felt that they lacked the skills to pursue a career in engineering, and a third felt that they didn’t know enough about the roles available in the sector.
In this episode Craig is joined by:

• Warren Page, Apprentice Manager at Xtrac Ltd
• Remis, a young engineering learner at an FE College
• Beth Elgood, Director of Communications, at EngineeringUK

For further information about the material quoted in this episode visit:

• Youth Misspent
• Levying Up: Delivering sustainable skills
• The Big Bang fair
• EngineeringUK reports
• City & Guilds social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube

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1. Start (00:00:00)

2. Panel introductions (00:02:29)

3. Why a career in the sector is appealing (00:03:32)

4. Showing young people the routes into engineering (00:07:32)

5. A range of engineering jobs for a range of people (00:15:06)

6. Green skills in demand among engineering professionals (00:22:21)

7. Magic wand question (00:29:25)

8. Conclusion (00:31:19)