Graduate job hunters may be interested to hear the views of the chairman of BAE systems, who believes that skills gaps in the manufacturing industry could be improved if the City stopped plucking the best engineering and science graduates. Dick Olver told the Daily Telegraph that his sector needs more "very good" engineering graduates to go into engineering as opposed to the more lucratively paid financial services industry. He said that the current financial crisis could help to reverse the trend and persuade the best graduates to consider engineering instead, while he also wants the government to act quickly if it wants schools and universities to keep producing high quality students. "Young people are always using the things technology produces like Xboxes and iPods and they think it's great. Engineers made those happen and the link hasn't been made," he added. "We need to raise the status of the profession in this country to the same as is enjoyed in parts of Europe and the US."
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