Office for Students consults on new TEF framework
Background The Office for Students (OfS) has launched a consultation on the future of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), with a deadline for responses of 11 December 2025. The EPC EES Committee proposes a full membership consultation. Further details are below and responses are invited from EPC members by Monday...
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Access & Admissions Forum 2025
This year’s EAN Access and Admissions Forum brings together leaders, policymakers, and higher education specialists to examine one of the sector’s most urgent challenges, the financial sustainability of engineering education. With demand for skilled engineers growing and universities under increasing financial strain, this event explores how institutions can balance mission...
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Why the annual EAN Access and Admissions Forum isn't just for admissions tutors
This year’s EAN Access and Admissions Forum brings together leaders, policymakers, and higher education specialists to tackle one of the sector’s most pressing questions: how to secure the financial sustainability of engineering education. With demand for skilled engineers soaring and universities feeling the squeeze, this event will explore how institutions...
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Bid to host EPC Congress in 2027
Each year, Congress is hosted by a different institution, which, for those three days, becomes the epicentre of the UK's academic engineering world. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your university. Proposals are invited from higher education Engineering departments to host the Engineering Academic Network's Annual Congress in 2027. The...
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Register your interest – DEI Community of Special Interest
Our DEI Community of Special Interest is looking for passionate individuals and organisations to join this collaborative professional network. We’d love to hear from you!
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Reimagining policy and standards with EWB change labs
At the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC), we know that the frameworks shaping our profession—professional registration, regulation, and standards—play a profound role in how engineers practice, research, and innovate. Yet many of these systems were designed for a different time. In the face of climate crisis and societal breakdown, they can...
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Introducing the Inclusive Employability Toolkit
We’re excited to announce our brand-new Inclusive Employability Toolkit, a resource designed to help engineering educators integrate EDI principles and practices in engineering, computing, design and technology.
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Welcome to the EPC’s new Sustainability Toolkit
The EPC has introduced a major new initiative to ensure the engineers of tomorrow can rise to the challenges of the climate emergency: The Sustainability Toolkit, produced with support from the Royal Academy of Engineering and Siemens. EPC President, Prof John Mitchell invites you to explore.
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Engineering Ethics Toolkit
Welcome to the EPC’s Engineering Ethics toolkit. Here you will find our resource designed to help engineering educators integrate ethics content into teaching.
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Enterprise Collaboration toolkit
Welcome to the EPC’s Enterprise Collaboration toolkit – formerly known as the Crucible Project. Here you will find EPC’s landmark project supporting university and industry collaboration in engineering by showcasing and sharing the keys to success.
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5th November 2025: Engineers 2030 The National Engineering Policy Centre has published the final report from Engineers 2030, a two-year initiative to map the actions...
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From Transparency to Empathy: Rethinking Inclusive Assessment in Engineering Education
Guest blog by Dr Muhammad Sayed, Assistant Professor at NMITE A few weeks back, I joined a group of engineering educators in a sunny corner...
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Office for Students consults on new TEF framework
Background The Office for Students (OfS) has launched a consultation on the future of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), with a deadline for responses of...
ConsultationsNew events
Rep Support Session 13th November 2025
This online session will support EPC representatives in member universities in their work, both as representatives of their colleagues and as engineering academics on the...
EPC Event
Rep Support Session 17th November 2025
This online session will support EPC representatives in member universities in their work, both as representatives of their colleagues and as engineering academics on the...
EPC Event
RIKT Committee Meeting 17th November 2025
There will be a meeting of the RIKT committee taking place Monday 17th November at 10am.
EPC Event