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A ROADMAP FOR MINERALS PROCESSING EDUCATION
Some individual comments included:
The largest barrier is getting past the important / not urgent mindset.
Time shortage due to other activities (bureaucracy)
We are a very small company
Conference attendance is currently on hold for budget reasons
We have very low staffing levels and nobody allocated to look after
graduate training in professional areas, although there are plenty of
training courses on safety and management
Declining internal support for EIT (engineer in training) programs &
training
How Much does it Matter?
It is always important to find out how much employers actually care about
specific mineral processing competencies, so respondents were asked about
the impact on their business of inadequate minerals engineering skills.
Thankfully, good mineral processing skills and competency development
is clearly important to most of the survey respondents (Figure 12).
Figure 9: Responses to question about the importance of good
skills – with Academics removed from the data set
What would be the impact on your business of inadequate
minerals engineering skills?
No measurable impact Significant negative impact Extremely serious negative impact
Mineral Engineering Knowledge and 39
Skills for Today’s Industry
