November 11, 2020

Government Spending Review – Priorities for Aerospace

Government Spending Review – Priorities for Aerospace

Last week ADS hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Aerospace Growth Partnership on the priorities for the aerospace sector ahead of […]

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October 19, 2020

ADS Priorities – Securing Industry’s Recovery

ADS Priorities – Securing Industry’s Recovery

The ongoing global pandemic is impacting heavily on our sectors. In 2019 the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors contributed a combined […]

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September 18, 2020

Addressing the National Engineering Skills Challenge: Defence Skills Survey 2020

Addressing the National Engineering Skills Challenge: Defence Skills Survey 2020

Guest blog written by Emma Booth, Defence Engagement Lead at Serco With this week being National Coding Week, and against the backdrop […]

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September 4, 2020

ADS Member Dassault Systèmes launches Sustainable Aviation Competition for students

ADS Member Dassault Systèmes launches Sustainable Aviation Competition for students

At this year’s Farnborough Friday during the virtual Farnborough International Airshow, Dassault Systèmes launched a new Sustainable Aviation competition for university students. […]

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August 3, 2020

Impact of Brexit on skills in Aerospace

Impact of Brexit on skills in Aerospace

Written by Matt Hogsden, Industry Secondee The combination of Brexit and COVID-19 has been described as the perfect storm for UK firms, […]

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Be the Business Mentoring for Growth programme

Be the Business Mentoring for Growth programme

To help our members navigate a way through this challenging year, ADS have engaged with Be the Business who are providing fully-funded […]

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February 6, 2020

Embracing Challenges: Meet BAE Systems’ Gina

Embracing Challenges: Meet BAE Systems’ Gina

For National Apprenticeship Week, ADS is featuring several apprentices from across our sectors to demonstrate why apprenticeships are important and the talent […]

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February 5, 2020

Standing Out From the Crowd: Meet Airbus’ Saskia

Standing Out From the Crowd: Meet Airbus’ Saskia

For National Apprenticeship Week, ADS is featuring several apprentices from across our sectors to demonstrate why apprenticeships are important and the talent […]

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February 4, 2020

Climbing Higher: Meet Thales’ Apprentice Michael

Climbing Higher: Meet Thales’ Apprentice Michael

For National Apprenticeship Week, ADS is featuring several apprentices from across our sectors to demonstrate why apprenticeships are important and the talent […]

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February 3, 2020

Championing female engineers: Meet Raytheon’s Rosie

Championing female engineers: Meet Raytheon’s Rosie

National Apprenticeship Week is a celebration of the impact that in-work training can have on careers, employers and the broader economy, with […]

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National Apprenticeship Week 2020

National Apprenticeship Week 2020

Today marks the start of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week running from 3rd-7th February! The theme behind the 13th Annual National Apprenticeship […]

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January 23, 2020

ADS President Tony Wood’s Speech to the 2020 ADS Annual Dinner

ADS President Tony Wood’s Speech to the 2020 ADS Annual Dinner

The 2020 ADS Annual Dinner was held on Wednesday 22nd January, addressed by newly appointed ADS President Tony Wood and by Rolls […]

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January 7, 2020

Winging It Podcast – Skills

Winging It Podcast – Skills

In the twelfth episode of our Winging It podcast, we provide an update following December 2019’s general election and what it means […]

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November 6, 2019

Why Diversity Matters In Tomorrow’s Engineers

Why Diversity Matters In Tomorrow’s Engineers

As you may have seen, this week is Tomorrow’s Engineers week, the aim of which is to demonstrate the impact engineers have […]

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July 19, 2019

Women in Aviation and Aerospace Charter: One Year on

Women in Aviation and Aerospace Charter: One Year on

Today is the one-year anniversary of the Women in Aviation and Aerospace Charter, which was launched at Farnborough Airshow. The Charter, which […]

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