The Engineering Council has welcomed proposals by Lord Sainsbury’s Technician Working Group for the creation of a Technician Council to promote registration of Engineering Technicians (EngTech) and Incorporated Engineers (IEng) – and their equivalents in science, health, and ICT.
The proposals were requested by Lord Mandelson in last November’s “Skills for Growth” White Paper. The Engineering Council said the Government had recognised that intermediate skills were “inadequately represented in the working population”, and that insufficient status was awarded to engineering, science, and health professionals, “at this level and above”. Andrew Ramsay, Engineering Council CEO, and a member of Lord Sainsbury’s Working Group, said: “This initiative provides evidence that there is at last a real understanding by Government and the civil service of the need to accord significant status to the UK’s Technicians. We also welcome the endorsement of the framework we have developed for the engineering profession for assessment of professional competence standards.”
