During 2013, the Engineering Council is undertaking the periodic five year review of several key documents including The Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP). We consulted initially on this AHEP review earlier this year and received a high level of responses.
- Removing the distinction between General and Specific Learning Outcomes, to give a single set of learning outcomes for each degree.
- Some strengthening of topics identified in the reviews, such as risk management and ethics, which has resulted in small changes (e.g. one or two words in each case)
- Strengthening of the references to intellectual property and statistics, which were suggested in the consultation responses
- Increased use of the terms in the interpretation rubric, to clarify levels of learning: ‘understanding’, ‘knowledge’, ‘know-how’, ‘skills’, ‘awareness’, ‘complex’.
- the introductory sections which have been revised, aiming to clarify and reduce duplication with other sections and documents;
- the preamble describing each type of degree;
- the learning outcomes for each degree type, in particular to provide each degree type with a holistic set of learning outcomes which are not referenced to another degree type and which clarify the progression between levels. Please note that the learning outcomes are presented in tabular format purely for the purposes of this consultation. Feedback suggests this format makes it easier to review progression, the BEng-MEng changes etc. However, the final AHEP document will be set out, as it is now, but with the holistic set of standards for each title, and the sequence of material will be changed. In case it helps, this is presented as both a ‘tracked’ and a ‘clean’ version.
“Accreditation of HE Programmes (AHEP) review – Consultation about proposed revisions”
and you are invited to make your comments via this short online survey, which should take no more than 15 minutes once you have read the documents. Link to the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QYR9D6B.
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