Want a graduate career with limitless prospects? Launch yourself into space

The UK space sector supports around 68,000 jobs, of which almost two-thirds are filled by graduates. Apparently recession-proof, it grew by an average of 9% each year between 1999 and 2007, and has been hailed as one of the hidden success stories of British industry over recent decades by a recent report from the Space Innovation and Growth Team (Space IGT).

The report set out a strategy for growth over the next two decades which it said could create 100,000 new high-skilled technology jobs and increase the revenues generated by the sector in the UK from £6 billion to £40 billion.

Andy Green, the chief executive officer of Logica and chairman of the Space IGT, said in his introduction to the report that the space sector had revolutionised capabilities in areas such as international communications, global navigation and national security, and provided a way to monitor the earth’s climate. He commented, ‘We should seize the opportunity to take a successful UK space sector and transform it into a foundation of our future economy.’

• Find out more about the UK Space Agency and the Space Innovation and Growth Team
• Find out more about graduate areas of work in engineering
  

Posted by Alison_TARGETjobs on 15 July 2010

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