Skills shortages risk low-carbon economy

28th April 2015


A lack of STEM graduates will hamper low-carbon innovation across the economy, causing the UK to miss out on growth worth £6.7 billion a year, finds a new report.

Engineering growth – enabling world-class entrepreneurship in the low-carbon economy warns that by 2023 there will be a shortfall of 50,000 graduates a year with science, technology, engineering and m

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