News, careers guides and opportunities for 14 to 18 year olds, and the parents and teachers helping them.
Electronics & Communications
Nearly a mile underground in South Dakota, crews have started building the vast cryostats for DUNE, a neutrino experiment for which the UK is making 137 of the 150 wire detector panels.
Health
Imperial College London engineers crash-tested 30 bike helmets at real-world angles. Folding designs met the safety standards but protected less on average, mostly because…
Construction & Infrastructure
The Iron Bridge in Shropshire opened in 1781 as the world's first iron bridge. Here is how it was designed, cast and built, and…
The main branches of engineering: what engineers in each one do, what they earn and how to get in.
Degrees, apprenticeships, T Levels and vocational qualifications: how each route into engineering works and who it suits.
The A levels, IB and Scottish qualifications that lead into engineering, and why each one helps.
Work experience, competitions, clubs, scholarships and applications: how to stand out and pay for your studies.
Electronics & Communications
The jobs behind the story: Behind it all are the electronic engineers who design the logic in the chips, the silicon engineers who take that design and turn it into a physical layout and the verification engineers who test it prior to manufacture.
Energy & Environment
The jobs behind the story: Behind it all are the electrical engineers who design the cable network, the marine engineers who work out how each cable is to be laid and the offshore wind technicians who pull in, terminate and test every connection.
Aerospace, Defence & MarineOpportunities
The jobs behind the story: Engineering and manufacturing apprenticeships needed by big defence employers and smaller supply chain companies are central to this scheme.
Construction & Infrastructure
The jobs behind the story: Behind it all are civil and hydraulic engineers who work out how floodwater moves and the forces it exerts on buildings, and laboratory technicians who build and operate the test rigs (e.g.
Health
The jobs behind the story: Biomedical engineering is one of the fastest-growing areas in the UK.
Construction & Infrastructure
The jobs behind the story: Structural engineers design concrete frames to survive damage, and forensic engineers study failures like the one in Santander to make future buildings safer.
Construction & Infrastructure
The jobs behind the story: At the moment railway electrification is the greatest civil engineering problem in the UK and all major rail projects require engineers who know about power systems, track design, signalling and structural engineering.
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
The jobs behind the story: Materials science is at the heart of almost every major engineering challenge, from jet engines to batteries to medical implants.
Tutor pack
How to run it in 10 minutes 0 to 1 minute: title slide. Three real engineering stories from the past week. 1 to 6…
For studentsReal engineer
Adrian Westaway is a design engineer and co-founder of the invention studio Special Projects. When he was 11, he wrote to the magician Paul…
For studentsReal engineer
Minal Patel is an engineer. She joined fellow engineers Mimi-Isabella Nwosu and Ebony Allison for the Born to Engineer roundtable, an honest conversation about…
For studentsReal engineer
Faye Banks took an apprenticeship in electrical engineering. It let her earn while she learned, and led to a senior management position at National…
For studentsCareers guides
Updated November 2026. All links and schemes have been checked against the official sources. The short answer Aerospace engineers design, build, test and look…
For studentsCareers guides
Biomedical engineers design, test, maintain and manage the technology that keeps people alive and well (scanners, monitors, prosthetics etc). In the UK you can…
For studentsCareers guides
What chemical engineers do, what they earn, which subjects help, and how to get in by degree, apprenticeship or T Level.
Careers guides
The guide is aimed at students considering a career in engineering and at parents and carers assisting them with their decision. It explains the…
Automotive & Transport
Ever watch a Formula 1 race and wonder, "How do those cars even exist?" We just did a deep dive into the engineering beneath the bodywork, and honestly? It’s wilder than you…
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Ages 16–19 (A level / post-16)
“When you tell people you make stars for a living, their heads turn and their mouths open.”
Ages 14–16 (KS4 / GCSE)
Explore the biology of cancer, and how a targeted approach avoids some of the damaging side effects of traditional chemotherapy
Ages 11–14 (KS3)
Explore different ways of extinguishing a flame with some surprising results