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Skill shortages in technology are a source of anxiety throughout Western Europe. They are exacerbated by demographic changes which imply a decrease of 20–25 per cent in UK school leavers qualified for entry to higher education over the period 1984–1994. At the same time, there is a growing demand for scientists and technologists in the engineering industry, despite reductions in other categories of staff.