The EPC has responded to the OfS consultation on the approach to public grant funding. We have urged that additional funding is needed to support Engineering courses and departments, based on the following factors:
- Engineering is critical to the success of the UK economy.
- Engineering HE could not be more strategically important.
- Engineering requires more specialist, and thus expensive, teaching and learning facilities and equipment
- This essential resource is easy to lose, but once scaled down, scaling back up in Engineering is not possible without extensive investment.
- The average course funding deficit for each STEM student is double that across classroom-based subjects.
- There is concern that necessary teaching and learning innovations are isolated due to the lack of discipline-specific educational development funds.
- Engineering relies hugely on cross-subsidy from international students.
The full response can be found here.
