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The week of March 11^th-15^th will see an unprecedented number of engineers going into schools to give inspirational talks to students about the work they do and how they chose their careers. To get involved, sign up to the Inspiring the Future programme.

This week is an important week for engineering with many high-profile events happening. First, the inaugural winner of the global Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) will be announced. The QEPrize celebrates an engineer responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in engineering of benefit to humanity and will provide a great opportunity to raise the profile of engineering in the UK. We hope that the prize will inspire and engage the next generation of young people to take up careers in engineering.

A unique alliance of organisations: EngineeringUK, the British Science Association, Speakers for Schools and its sister programme Inspiring the Future along with the Royal Academy of Engineering are developing a programme of activities in March, to coincide with other STEM events: such as The Big Bang fair, the first Global Grand Challenges Summit and National Science and Engineering Week.

As part of that programme, and to mark the award of the first QEPrize, engineers from across the county are invited to visit state schools in order to share their passion for engineering with young people. The winner of the £1 million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering will be selected by an eminent panel of international judges who are leading engineers and scientists. They will visit the UK in March and have been invited to join the programme of engineering activities, including visiting schools to engage and inspire young people in engineering.

Over half of all secondary schools in England have applied for a speaker through the Speakers for Schools programme and many are keen to hear these prominent engineers and scientists talk to their students. A similar number of schools have signed up for the sister programme Inspiring the Future, which aims to recruit 100,000 people at all stages of their careers – from apprentices to CEOs – to go into local schools to talk about their work and career route. The leaders of engineering firms employing large numbers of engineers will be asked to encourage their employees to take part in Inspiring the Future.

Guests of Honour: Maddalaine Ansell, Head of International Knowledge & Innovation Unit, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Professor Colin Riordan, Chair, UK Higher Education International Unit (UKHEIU) and Vice-Chancellor, Cardiff University
This seminar will bring together key policymakers with senior stakeholders from across the HE sector to discuss the emerging challenges and opportunities presented by the increasing internationalisation of Higher Education, as well as the next steps for government policy in this area.
Central to discussion will be the competitiveness and attractiveness of UK universities in the globalised higher education market, particularly given recent non-EU student visa reform and growing competition for domestic students from European and American universities. Sessions will also cover the next steps for building UK students’ involvement in the Erasmus programme and student exchange in general, as well as the increasing trend for UK universities to open campuses overseas.
Venue: central London TBA
A discount is available for EPC members. Please contact us for details.
To book places, please use the Westminster Higher Education Forum online booking form. Once submitted, this will be taken as a confirmed booking and will be subject to Westminster Higher Education Forum’s terms and conditions.

As the Government concludes its National Curriculum Review, this timely seminar focuses on content of the proposed new Programme of Study (PoS) for Maths, due to be introduced into schools from September 2014, spanning Key Stages 1-4, as well as the practical implementation challenges for schools.

It will bring together key policymakers with school and college leaders, teaching unions, universities, publishers, awarding bodies, employers and wider stakeholders.
Areas for discussion include:

The content of the new Programme of Study (PoS) for Key Stages 1-4 – including the balance between pure mathematics and functional numeracy, and whether the PoS supports cross-curricular learning with the proposed curriculum PoS’ for Science and ICT;
How content of the proposed PoS compares with the curricula of other nations with leading outcomes in numeracy and Maths more widely;
The teaching of Maths – including the balance between prescription and teacher freedom, whether the new training bursaries will affect the recruitment and retention of mathematics graduates as teachers and the possibilities presented by technology to create innovative teaching approaches; and
How the curriculum fits with the proposed extension of compulsory Maths to age 18 and whether Maths GCSE, or their possible replacement qualifications, should be split to cover practical, core numeracy skills and, separately, more advanced and applied mathematics.

Speakers

We are delighted to be able to include in this seminar keynote addresses from: Jane Jones HMI, National Adviser for Maths, Ofsted; Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford and speaker confirmed from the Department for Education.

Further confirmed speakers include: Lynn Churchman, Trustee, National Numeracy and Chair, National Association of Mathematics Advisers; Rob Eastaway, Director, Maths Inspiration and Author, Maths for Mums and Dads; Professor Jeremy Hodgen, Professor of Mathematics Education, King’s College London; Dr Sue Pope, Mathematics Education Tutor, University of Manchester and Chair, Association of Teachers of Mathematics General Council; Charlie Stripp, Chief Executive, Mathematics in Education and Industry and Keith Todd, Headteacher, Greenway Academy, Horsham.

Additional senior participants are being approached.

Booking arrangements

A discount is available for EPC members. Please contact us for details.
To book places, please use the Westminster Higher Education Forum online booking form. Once submitted, this will be taken as a confirmed booking and will be subject to Westminster Higher Education Forum’s terms and conditions.

Venue: Central London TBA

On the 7/8 June 2012, the National HE STEM Programme, in conjunction with the Royal Society of Chemistry and sigma, held a two-day workshop aimed at supporting those wishing to engage in pedagogic research within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in UK higher education. The event was attended by around 35 participants from across the higher education sector who engaged with a range of plenary, discussion and interactive sessions , and who were supported by the workshop facilitators to develop an individual action plan to help them undertake pedagogic research in the future. A series of video case studies of participants are available where they share their reasons for attending, plans for the future, and describe how this workshop has helped inform their future research activities and approaches.
Following the success of this initial event the STEM Education Centre at the University of Birmingham and the Royal Society of Chemistry, with generous financial support provided by the Higher Education Academy are organising a follow-on event scheduled to take place at Weetwood Hall Conference Centre (Leeds) on the 17/18 December 2012.

The Recruitment and Admissions Forum took place at the Royal Academy of Engineering on 7th November 2012. The theme was “Uncertain times in university recruitment and admissions: protecting the future supply of graduate engineers”.

As the Government concludes its National Curriculum review, this Westminster Higher Education Forum seminar focuses on the content of the new curriculum for Design and Technology (D&T) for each Key Stage, due to be introduced into schools from September 2014 – as well as the implementation challenges for schools. It will bring together key policymakers with school and college leaders, teaching unions, universities, employers and other stakeholders. Delegates will assess the opportunities and challenges presented by D&T’s designation as a ‘foundation’ subject, with a much less prescriptive Programme of Study, as well as the level of teaching time required to deliver the new Programme and whether it meets the needs of employers, colleges and universities.

See http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/event.php?eid=548 for more details or to book. EPC members receive 15% discount. Please contact us for the code.

See http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/event.php?eid=548 for more details or to book. EPC members receive a 15% discount. Please contact us for the code.

Bringing together key stakeholders – including academics and university leaders, the publishing industry, science-based businesses, research councils and other research-funding organisations – with policymakers, this Westminster Higher Education Forum seminar will enable delegates to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by a move to ‘gold’ open access policies for publicly-funded research, whereby authors pay a fee for publication. The wider impact of reforms to academic publishing will also be considered, including how the public’s engagement with research can be improved, through, for example, the provision of walk-in access to journals in public libraries UK-wide. Delegates will also analyse whether or not domestic reforms could spur a move towards worldwide open access and the resulting effect this could have on the UK’s competitive position in research and development.

See http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/event.php?eid=515 for more details or to book. EPC members receive a 15% discount. Please contact us for the code.

The week of March 11th-15th will see an unprecedented number of engineers going into schools to give inspirational talks to students about the work they do and how they chose their careers. To get involved, sign up to the Inspiring the Future programme.

The week of March 11^th-15^th will see an unprecedented number of engineers going into schools to give inspirational talks to students about the work they do and how they chose their careers. To get involved, sign up to the Inspiring the Future programme.