Half a Million Engineers required for 2017?

In a recent report it is forecasted that the Uk economy as a whole will require 587,000 engineering and manufacturing workers with the state of the art skills by 2017.

The transport sector requires engineers, technicians and machine and transport operatives (366,000)
The construction industry will need an additional 389,000 engineering technicians and other workers with skilled trades by 2017 to meet the UK's commercial and housing needs.
An additional 21,000 workers will be needed in electricity, gas and water; mining, quarrying by 2017.
The nuclear industry needs to recruit 1,000 new apprentices and graduates per year until 2025 just to replace the current workforce once they retire. In order to build a new nuclear fleet and add a potential £30bn to the UK economy, many thousands more will be needed.
Sixty percent of the Aerospace and Defence workforce will retire in the next 20 years.

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