Instead, "we still have a factory-based model and mindset for the way we work - the more hours we put in the better, which creates a hamster wheel frenzy, " says Ian Price, author of Activity Illusion.

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The Report gives a new perspective on the importance of engineering to development and is intended as a platform for better understanding of engineering, an extraordinarily diverse and pervasive activity that has been central to human progress since the invention of the wheel.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Engineer shortage a threat to development, underlines UNESCO��s first global report on engineering