International Women in Engineering Day 2024
Brought to you by the Women’s Engineering Society, International Women in Engineering Day is back for its annual event on 23rd June. With 2022 figures showing that only 16.5% of engineers are women, the international event helps to celebrate the amazing work of female engineers around the world, raising women’s profiles in the engineering industry and encouraging more young women and girls to take up engineering careers.
This year’s theme is ‘Enhanced by Engineering’ which aims to profile the ‘best, brightest and bravest women in engineering’, who have enhanced lives around the world thanks to their leading work in engineering.
Read on to see how City & Guilds Training are supporting women in engineering this International Women in Engineering Day and beyond.
Supporting Women in Engineering
At City & Guilds Training we are constantly working with industry to improve equal opportunities and diversity within the engineering industry. Our engineering training provider, Gen2, have a strong cohort of female engineers completing apprenticeships and progressing into careers in the engineering industry.
Here, Holly Percival, a Balfour Beattie Level 3 Pipefitting apprentice, discusses her Level 3 Pipefitting apprentice, the opportunities it has created and how our expert trainers help her, and other female learners, feel welcome in the centre and on the course.
In aid of Women in Engineering Day, Gen2 will be hosting a roundtable event at our Workington centre giving our engineering apprentices the chance to network with our engineering tutors, discuss career opportunities in the engineering sector and find out what opportunities and variety of roles are available to them upon completion of their apprenticeship.
Through our Women in Engineering specific events and ongoing commitment to supporting our learners develop the skills they need to thrive we hope to ensure that there will be more ways for women to gain and progress in a career in the engineering industry.
To learn more, contact our team to see what engineering courses we offer. You can also follow us on LinkedIn to be the first to hear about future events similar to our Women in Engineering Day roundtable across rail, construction and engineering.
OUR TRAINING CENTRES
Gatwick
Our electrical training facilities at Mitre Court and Explorer 2 are just 2 minutes south of Gatwick Airport. They are comfortable, light and airy environments in which students can learn a wide range of practical and theory based skills.
Leeds
Phoenix House has raised the bar for electrical training centres in the UK. It’s situated east of Leeds, just off of the M1 / A1. This makes it easily accessible from Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, York, Harrogate and all over Yorkshire.
Portsmouth
Situated in the scenic location of Port Solent, our Portsmouth Training Centre offers lots of bright, light spaces to train in. We also have a state-of-the-art test track to deliver our industry-leading rail training courses such as PTS Practical Event, DCCR, COSS and many more.
Workington
As one of our 3 engineering and nuclear training centres in Cumbria, our Workington training facility provides a comfortable, light and airy environment in which learners from across the region can learn a wide range of practical and theory based skills.
Purley
Our Purley training centre offers Safety Critical, Track Engineering, Small Plant, Signalling & Telecoms, Health & Safety, CITB and Electrical training for learners across South London.
Cardiff
In partnership with Coleg y Cymoedd, our training centre in Nantgarw is located just 8 miles from Cardiff city centre and offers a comprehensive programme of open courses for learners in the surrounding areas.
Furness
Centrally located in Lightburn Trading Estate, our Gen2 Furness Skills Centre offers a large range of training courses and workshops to learners across Cumbria.
