If you are thinking about a career in robotics and automation some of the following may be of interest to you.

Regional Skills events

Recent developments to event format - click here for more information.

To visit our regional websites, please click on the following links.

Skills West Midlands

Skills North West

Skills Yorkshire and the Humber

North East Skills

Train to Gain Information

This is a one-stop shop service from the Learning and Skills Council that ensures your business gains access to the training it needs to succeed.

For more information please click here.

Skills Sector Initiative

Request for Support and Sign up to the delivery of our remaining
Sector Skills Agreements – please click here for more information and contact details.

The Government is pushing hard on raising UK skills and competency levels. The strategy being used comes under the banner "Sector Skills Initiatives" with agencies set up to handle specific sectors. We come under the Semta agency (science, engineering and manufacturing). Further details can be seen by clicking the following links

- Sector Skills Agreement

- an overview document of what SSAs are about

- the draft Stage 3 report (gap analysis) for the metal mechanical and electrical sectors (action plan on pages 60-68)

More information is available from the Semta website at www.semta.org.uk.

Topline Results - Skills and Training Grassroots Survey - click here for details

RECEX LLP and Prospects Events are pleased to release further information about the forthcoming careers events to take place in 2008/9.

Use the following link to view the media pack which covers information on the events in your area.

To view click here.

Smallpeice trust

The Smallpeice Trust is a part funded educational fund aimed at YR9-YR12 students and it organises residential courses all over the country. The groups usually comprise of about 20 students.

Click here for more information.

Prospects and RECEX are working in partnership to create a national series of regional skills events aimed at promoting careers and training opportunities to young people. This is done by making sure that the events are interactive with exhibitors running hands on demonstrations and activities in a fun and vibrant atmosphere.

For more details click here.

Recex events and exhibitions 2008/2009

The Royal Academy of Engineering supports the training and development of engineers in UK through this annual scheme which makes company awards of up to £15,000 ach. Over the last 10 years more than 475 companies spread across the UK have received funding for training programmes involving more than 9,000 engineers. This year the Academy will be awarding a further £400,000 through this scheme.

For more information please click here.

The University of the West of England, Bristol, offers robotics courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The BSc (Hons) Robotics is firmly rooted in both electronics and software engineering. Students are also encouraged to spend year in work placement as part of their degree. MSc Robotics and MSc Advanced Techologies in Electronics are for those from an electronics, computer science, software engineering or related background who wish to advance their interest and careers in robotics. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory is a joint venture between The University of West England and the University of Bristol and can provide information on research study and research expertise.

The University of Warwick offers a Robotic elective in various degrees - Click here to find out more.

Also of interest is the Wariwick Mobile Robotics which includes robot football. WMR is a project developed by a group of final year, multi-disciplinary MEng students at the University of Warwick. The project is part of the School of Engineering, with a laboratory situated in the IMC, International Manufacturing Centre. WMR has support and assistance from two PhD students, two professors, aid from other departments like the Department of Computer Science and the use of the World renowned WMG, Warwick Manufacturing Group facilities.

The School of Engineering at the University of Warwick offers a number of MEng 4 year engineering degree courses with the elective of “Robotics".

The University of Plymouth was the first to provide an undergraduate degree in Robotics and Automated Systems in 1992. The University now offers degree courses at BSc, BEng, MEng and MSc level in Robotics supported by an active research group. The key research strands include human robot interfaces, natural language communication, cognition and reasoning and visual and haptic interfaces. The University’s robot football team are the current reigning UK champions in the FIRA 5 a side league and Plymouth was the first to field a bipedal robot football team. Plymouth is also the main site of the EPSRC funded international “Virtual Centre for Personal Robotics” and the project coordinator of the flagship 6.25 million euro project ITALK – Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots.

More information may be found by following the following links:-

www.plymouth.ac.uk

www.italk.eu.org