Siemens HR director, Toby Peyton-Jones, said: "Apprenticeships truly deliver results – for the employer, for the apprentice and above all for the economy and society as part of overall industrial strategy to provide well-trained and industry-ready employees."
Martin Hottass, manager, skills and Siemens professional education, added: "We have a strong commitment to contribute to the educational landscape in Britain. We see a role for business to work together with the public sector to help build a skills pipeline for UK industry.
"We invest in this as the UK is an industrial powerhouse with a looming threat of a dire skills shortage as our older workers with valuable knowledge and technical expertise come up to retirement age. We do not see enough people coming through to replace them. Cultivating new engineers is more important than ever in the current economic climate and Siemens continues to invest in skills and life-long training."
Siemens recently launched the Curiosity Project, a three-year engagement programme which broadens existing investment to bring science, technology, engineering and mathematics to life in the UK. As part of the Curiosity Project, Siemens will support five major science and related festivals throughout the UK, each with a clear ambition to reach out to parents, teachers and students to make the world of science available in a fun and engaging way.
This also encompasses the Siemens Education Portal which allows teachers, students and parents to access a central hub of engineering information.
