STEM ambassadors bemoan careers advice

The engineering and technology sectors are continuously striving to get more young people into STEM careers. But what advice were the engineers and technicians of today given in their school years?

Fortunately for anyone working today in telecommunications, advice back in the 19th century was largely ignored. “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not,” declared William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post office, in 1876. “We have plenty of messenger boys.”

Read the published story on the E&T Magazine website