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Yes. There is a huge amount of work being undertaken by individual companies and at Voices industry level to engage and

Changing of the guard. With skills shortages still high on the agenda, encourage the uptake of STEM young people need to be recruited as early as possible, OE asked: subjects. By giving young people a better understanding of oil and gas we can guide them towards these

Do industry programs promoting STEM actually stimulating subject areas and, in turn, keep the industry expanding do enough to encourage children/teens to pursue with fresh talent. engineering?

Over one million pupils have been reached by OPITO initiatives in schools and although it may

Industries must work

It takes a village to raise a take a few years before we see closely with educators child, so the saying goes, the full impact of this process to develop instructional and that is no di