Next Gen Makers News

One the UK’s leading engineering apprenticeship training providers has partnered with Next Gen Makers to help West Midlands manufacturers attract more young engineers.In-Comm Training, which supports 750 apprenticeships every year across its three academies in...

Evans & White, established for over 50 years as a sub contract machine shop and as a manufacturer of purpose built equipment for the steel process industry, have taken on an Apprentice machinist as part of plans to bring through a new generation of engineers...

My brother is a primary school teacher.Recently he took a group of his year 6 pupils to Germany on a school trip. Whilst there, he got chatting to the German Headmaster of the school and asked him, amongst other things, why the German Education system has not been...

A collaboration between Next Gen Makers and Walsall College has helped Birchills Automotive find their latest Apprentice, Alex Wilson. The Walsall based firm, who are industry leaders in the design and manufacture of custom exhaust systems for brands including BMW and...

Next Gen Makers are proud to announce our Engineering Careers Prospectus 2020.Our Schools and young people need to hear about our regions’ rich Engineering supply chains now more than ever before. It’s time for an Employer led solution to the lack of manufacturing...

This year I’ve spoken with hundreds of Directors of manufacturing firms. Way too many times I have been told “not enough young people want to start a career in engineering”.This year I must also have spoken to in excess of 2,000 young people from High Schools, Sixth...