News, careers guides and opportunities for 14 to 18 year olds, and the parents and teachers helping them.
Energy & Environment
Engineers at Oxford, UCL and UNAM filmed raindrop-sized drops hitting water covered in plastic particles, and found the splash and a thin upward jet can both fling microplastics into the air.
Space
For National Engineering Day, the Royal Academy of Engineering is advertising nine jobs for the engineers of 2076. Here is what they tell us…
Space
For National Engineering Day 2026, we wrote a job advert from the future. The role is invented, but the engineering is real, and the…
The main branches of engineering: what engineers in each one do, what they earn and how to get in.
Degrees, apprenticeships, T Levels and vocational qualifications: how each route into engineering works and who it suits.
The A levels, IB and Scottish qualifications that lead into engineering, and why each one helps.
Work experience, competitions, clubs, scholarships and applications: how to stand out and pay for your studies.
Health
The jobs behind the story: Biomedical engineering is one of the fastest-growing areas in the UK.
Construction & Infrastructure
The jobs behind the story: Structural engineers design concrete frames to survive damage, and forensic engineers study failures like the one in Santander to make future buildings safer.
Construction & Infrastructure
The jobs behind the story: At the moment railway electrification is the greatest civil engineering problem in the UK and all major rail projects require engineers who know about power systems, track design, signalling and structural engineering.
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
The jobs behind the story: Materials science is at the heart of almost every major engineering challenge, from jet engines to batteries to medical implants.
Energy & Environment
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Automotive & Transport
Tutor pack
How to run it in 10 minutes Minutes 0 to 3: one slide per story (slides 2 to 4). Read the three lines, then…
For studentsReal engineer
John Wheal is a systems engineer at NATS, which provides air traffic control services in the UK. He is part of a team designing…
For studentsReal engineer
Adrian Westaway is a design engineer and co-founder of the invention studio Special Projects. When he was 11, he wrote to the magician Paul…
For studentsReal engineer
Mathew Holloway is an innovation design engineer. His award-winning Q-Bot robot helps housing providers tackle fuel poverty and climate change. "What makes you get…
For studentsCareers guides
Updated November 2026. All links and schemes have been checked against the official sources. The short answer Aerospace engineers design, build, test and look…
For studentsCareers guides
Biomedical engineers design, test, maintain and manage the technology that keeps people alive and well (scanners, monitors, prosthetics etc). In the UK you can…
For studentsCareers guides
What chemical engineers do, what they earn, which subjects help, and how to get in by degree, apprenticeship or T Level.
Careers guides
The guide is aimed at students considering a career in engineering and at parents and carers assisting them with their decision. It explains the…
Automotive & Transport
Ever watch a Formula 1 race and wonder, "How do those cars even exist?" We just did a deep dive into the engineering beneath the bodywork, and honestly? It’s wilder than you…
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Ages 16–19 (A level / post-16)
“When you tell people you make stars for a living, their heads turn and their mouths open.”
Ages 14–16 (KS4 / GCSE)
Explore the biology of cancer, and how a targeted approach avoids some of the damaging side effects of traditional chemotherapy
Ages 11–14 (KS3)
Explore different ways of extinguishing a flame with some surprising results