With the well-publicised engineering skills gap in the North East, more and more engineering companies large and small are seeing the benefits of employing apprentices. This enables them both to support their own companies and to train young people to be the engineers and engineering managers of the...

Thomas McFadyen, from Hebburn in Tyneside, has beaten off stiff competition from hundreds of entrants to achieve his place as a North East finalist in this year’s National Apprenticeship Awards.

He faces tough competition to become the ‘Advanced Level Apprentice of the Year’ and now has an anxious wa...

Technicians at local calibration laboratory AMECaL have been given a late Christmas Present with the opening of a brand new, state-of-the-art, environmentally-controlled workplace. After a six-figure redevelopment of an outlying building on the company’s site in Walker Riverside, Newcastle, Technici...