Leading ladies: Record number of female engineers sign up at Forth Valley College

Forth Valley College has registered a record number of female engineering modern apprentices (MAS) for an academic year, with 19 signing up for courses which cover sectors such as welding and fabrication, instrumentation, power distribution and mechanical engineering. MAS will spend their first year at college while being employed by companies such as Petrofac, Scotrail, and Scottish Power. Principal Ken Thomson said he hoped intakes such as this would “inspire even more women to think about engineering as a career” and become the norm in the future.