10.10.2022
Make UK and EngineeringUK estimate that the engineering and manufacturing T Level route will require as many as 43,500 placements to be provided by employers in the sector by 2024/25. Yet currently, only one in ten (9%) of engineering and manufacturing employers surveyed for the report hosts a T level placement and just 12% plan to in the coming year.
Several factors are holding back engineering and manufacturing employers from engaging with T levels and offering industry placements, including a lack of employer understanding of T levels and of information and support on offer. That said, employers remain of the view that T Levels have the potential to provide the solution to solving their vocational pipeline issues, with 55% open to taking on an industry placement in the future.