Education, Employability and Skills Committee (EES)

Aims

• To provide a resource bank and a network of support on which our members, partners and affiliates can draw
• To conduct horizon scanning and collect, analyse and disseminate information (and carry out studies and pieces of research) within the scope of the Group’s remit in ways that:
  • Support and develop our members
  • Promote the cause of engineering in higher education amongst our wider network of professional bodies, the Press, politicians, Government and funding bodies
  • Influence policies to improve the development and delivery of HE engineering programmes
• To support initiatives which promote innovation in the development and delivery of HE engineering programmes

Ways of working

• The Committee generally meets 3 times per year, on a perpetual calendar usually around late October, mid January and late June, to steer and receive updates on the activities of smaller task groups and review and agree the periodic report for the EPC Committee to the Board.
• Most meetings are held virtually.
• Its meetings will be documented and made available via a dedicated webpage on the EPC website.
• This Committee will set out a programme of pro-active activities for the year, including a draft dissemination programme but will also need to be available to react to matters arising in the policy arena.
• The Committee will provide a termly report to the EPC Committee on matters that have arisen in the policy arena and an update on progress with the agreed pro-active programme of activity.
• The task groups will meet more frequently, either physically or virtually, and will focus on delivery of reports and analyses that can be used to underpin the dissemination programme.

By request, some members may be corresponding members, not normally attending meetings but in receipt of minutes and papers, and involved in (email) discussions and consultations.

Currently, the EES Committee has two working groups reporting through it to the EPC Board.

These are:

• The Engineering Ethics Advisory Group, chaired by Prof Raffaella Ocone 
• The New Approaches to Engineering HE Steering Group, chaired by Prof John Mitchell

There have been other working groups in recent years as follows, but these have now completed their work:

• Degree Apprenticeships Working Group
• Placements and Accreditation Working Group: This was established as a result of a recommendation of one of the Perkins Review Task Groups and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Universe of Engineering Report.
• Higher Education in the Workplace Working Group: Again, arising as a result of a recommendation of the Perkins Review, this group is developing and communicating best practice on new ways of delivery HE in the workplace (e.g. degree apprenticeships).

14th June 2022 – click here.

7th February 2022 – click here.

For dates, meeting details, papers and minutes of all previous EES Committee meetings, click here.