The Hereford University is trying to expand the amount of female engineers they have. This is especially interesting if you work in engineering jobs or even in civil engineer jobs. Elena Rodriguez-Falcon has stated that she is going to try and raise the amount of female engineers that are from the UK. At the moment, the numbers are only at 11% and this applies to the full national workforce. In an attempt to boost the figure, she has stated that she will be taking students who have an A level in math and even physics as well to try and convert those who study art to engineering. The university is going to open in the year 2020 and a lot of people believe that there are not enough women who study both math and physics. If they do then they go on to choose degrees in other subjects. This is because of the way that people see the profession.
She believes that by removing these entry requirements, she can then try and boost the amount of UK women that are part of the engineering industry. She also believes that she can tailor the course to meet the needs of the people who are applying and this is certainly great to see. Of course, there is no telling whether or not this will make a difference but it is fantastic to see that people are making the effort to get more women into the industry.
After all, the engineering industry is certainly dominated by men so having more women will certainly help to balance things out and it will also help to provide more opportunity to those who want to get into the industry for the very first time as well.
