| ACE calls for scrapping of engineering tuition fees |
| Friday, 16 May 2008 | |
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Leading construction industry business group, The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has called on the Government to scrap tuition fees for UK engineering students. According to the association, waiving tuition fees will increase the number of professional engineers and provide much-needed resources for the sector. Nelson Ogunshakin, ACE chief executive said: "The industry is working to close the gap in the salaries between engineering and other comparable professions to make engineering careers more attractive. Until this is achieved we need, as a country, to incentivise engineering as a career. Waiving tuition fees for engineering courses will increase the demand for those courses and ultimately increase the number of professional engineers the nation so badly needs" |