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Poor Pay Turns Graduates Away
01 Mar 2005
According to two recent surveys, graduates are not going into engineering careers because of poor salary prospects, despite more UK companies crying out for their skills. The problem in securing graduate engineers to the profession could worsen next year when the Government plans to increase annual tuition fees to £3,000.
A recent survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) predicts there will be a 24.2% increase in vacancies in the mechanical engineering sector. It also predicted median graduate starting salary for 2005 is £22,000 but for graduate engineers in 2004, it was £20,000.
In response to the AGR report, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) asked: "A leading graduate survey is predicting a hike in the number of vacancies in the mechanical engineering sector in 2005. Why do you think fewer students are accepting it as a career?"
The IMechE survey revealed 55.4% said it was down to poor salary, 14.5% said there were too few career prospects and 13.5% said engineering was boring.
www.imeche.org.uk.
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