Last month, I suggested that some facts and statistics might help to tune the mind to the seriousness of the retirement problem faced industry – and not just Big Oil.

So here it is, the result of education, education, education – a system that leaves students wishing to take up science subjects at university now needing an extra year’s education for, among other things, “remedial maths”.

Contrary to much that has been written about the differences between generations regarding their attitudes toward work and their engagement in their jobs, these variations are actually relatively small, according to research just completed by Sirota Survey Intelligence