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Report on Government spending on science...
While we all welcome the additional funding announced for science and engineering when other Government departments are seeing cuts, CaSE have published an interim analysis of Government spending on science since...
David Willetts' speech to HEFCE Conference
David Willetts: Higher Education Funding Council for England 2013 HEFCE 18 April 2013 Speech Originally given at Imperial College London. You donât need me to tell you that this year...
New report published: The Dual Funding Structure for Research in the UK: Research Council and Funding Council Allocation Methods and the Pathways to Impact of UK Academics
Commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION AND SKILLS (BIS) and carried out by THE CENTRE FOR BUSINESS RESEARCH (CBR) AND THE UK INNOVATION RESEARCH CENTRE (UK~IRC), this report analyses...
Why we MUST change the new Design and Technology programme of study...
The Government's proposed draft Design and Technology programme of study would be a huge backward step for a subject that develops vital skills that young people need for the future....
David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, announces ÂŁ47 million worth of funding for engineering projects
Announced at the Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS), organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering and its American and Chinese counterparts, in London on 12/13 March, Â five Frontier Engineering projects...
BIS Report on Progression of Apprentices to Higher Education February 2013
BIS Research paper number 107 In New Challenges, New Chances (BIS, Dec 2011) the Government clearly laid out its intention to provide a âladder of opportunityâ through apprenticeships to âclear...
Engineering Council guidance for KIS statements
The Engineering Council, with the support of the EPC, has been undertaking work to help universities make the most of the advantages afforded by promoting the accredited status of their...
HEFCE support for very high cost subjects
Since 2007 HEFCE has provided funding to help secure the provision of four very high-cost STEM subjects: chemistry, physics, chemical engineering and mineral, metallurgy and materials engineering.  In the new funding method from...
Immigration policy
More on the immigration policy debate The OBHE's January newsletter highlights its new report: The Global Race for STEM skills.   It reminds us that the sector often appears to lobby for change...
"Cameron visit (to India) did not tackle key higher education issues"
From University World News: Issue 260 published 20 February, 2013 The visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to India this week has left Indian students disappointed that he did...
Election of SEFI President
We are delighted to announce that EPC Committee member, Professor Kamel Hawwash (University of Birmingham) has been elected Vice President and President Elect of the European Society of Engineering Education (SEFI). SEFI...
REF 2014
UK higher education institutions (HEIs) plan to submit the work of a slightly increased number of their staff for assessment in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), compared with the...
HEFCE Grant Letter 2013/14
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Minister for Universities and Science have has now confirmed funding allocations and the Governmentâs priorities for higher education...
IMechE scholarships and studentships
Institution of Mechanical Engineers Each year, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) supports the educational and development needs of students and graduates with scholarships and awards totalling £400,000. This includes...
Engineering UK: the state of engineering 2013
Engineering UK Engineering UK's annual flagship report Engineering UK: the state of engineering 2013 was launched on 3rd December. It projects that engineering companies will have 2.74 million job openings from 2010...
End of term reports
End of term reports... UCAS has published its end of cycle report for 2012, the year which its Chief Executive Mary Curnock Cook called "one of the most complex and challenging years...
Ideas for student projects
Check out Bespoken from the Blackwood Foundation for details of how to get involved in its Design Challenge. Brunel, Coventry and Loughborough Universities are already involved and it's a good source of...
HESA to make REF-eligible staff statistics available...
Times Higher Education 9 January, 2013 The proportion of staff submitted by each unit of assessment to the 2014 research excellence framework will become clear for the first time after...
Chancellor's Autumn Statement
While we welcome the additional funding announced for science and engineering in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, CaSE have published an interim analysis of Government spending on science since the 2010 Spending...
Improving the employment chances of our graduates
With Engineering UK's forecast that we need to nearly double the number of engineering graduates to meet demand from employers in the near term (more of which below), do take...
Fred Maillardet - Times Higher Education
EPC former President and committee member Professor Fred Maillardet responds to reports of the "abolition" of examinations in HE - not so for engineering. Made to Measure. Times Higher Education 3rd...
Welcome boost for science and engineering... but some concerns
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a ÂŁ600M injection into the UK's scientific research infrastructure in his Autumn Statement. The money is directed at eight strands of research outlined by the...
Funding opportunities
For HEIs/academic staff 30 November, 2012 Higher educationâs contribution to economic growth: Invitation to submit expressions of interest for funding through the Catalyst Fund. Deadline 24 January 2013. See http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2012/cl312012/....
Dik Morling in The Sunday Times
An EPC 2012/13 early enrolments poll and quote from Professor Dik Morling, Chair of EPC's Admissions Working Group was included in an article in The Sunday Times of 18 November,...
"Spanner in the industrial works as engineering degrees lose traction" - Times Higher Education
EPC 2012/13 early enrolments poll indicating faltering demand from overseas students and the financial implications for engineering departments was reported by Jack Grove in the article "Spanner in the industrial...
Impact acceleration accounts
15 November, 2012 Business Secretary Vince Cable today announced a ÂŁ60m investment in UK universities to help our most pioneering scientists and engineers create successful businesses from their research, improve...
House of Lords Science and Technology Committee: Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects Report mentioned in The Telegraph
In December 2011, The House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Willis of Knaresborough, opened an inquiry into higher education in STEM subjects (science, technology,...
A level reform
The Engineering Professors' Council response was one of the almost 1,000 submissions to this consultation which ran for 3 months over the summer of this year. The outcome was announced...
The Future of Postgraduate Education
Westminster Higher Education Forum 17 October 2012: The Future for Postgraduate Education There is clearly widespread concern about the lack of progress on funding for postgraduate education.  On 17th October,...
Osborne support for new vocational qualifications
Published: 12:10am, 2nd November 2012 Updated: 11:07am, 2nd November 2012 New vocational qualifications in engineering will help Britain thrive in the global economy, Chancellor George Osborne has said. The Royal...
House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee - oral evidence on engineering skills
On 24th October 2012, the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee heard oral evidence on the inquiry into engineering skills. "We compete in a high labour cost economy;...
Improving social mobility...
The Milburn Report: University Challenge: How Higher Education Can Advance Social Mobility was published earlier this month. In it, the importance of foundation degrees in supporting those from disadvantaged social...
...but a somewhat different situation in university recruitment of engineering professors in the US compared with the UK...
Purdue University plans to hire more than 100 new engineering professors and boost engineering enrolment by 10 percent over the next five years to help move the school to the...
Messages about maths education and the contribution of engineering to the economy are the same over the pond...
One of the aerospace industry's most respected leaders said Wednesday that government and industry badly need to take steps to reform the U.S. education system to dramatically boost teaching of...
US study shows that people who majored in engineering had the highest earnings of any bachelorâs degree field
The field of bachelorâs degree makes a considerable difference in a college graduateâs annual earnings, according to 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Built in Britain: has Britain finally rediscovered its great tradition of epic engineering?
Victorian Britain was famous for its magnificent feats of engineering, but over a century later our once groundbreaking systems are aged and creaking. In this two part series, Evan Davis...
Royal Academy of Engineering publishes report...
...on the importance of engineering skills to the economy. Read it here: Jobs and growth: the importance of engineering skills to the UK.
Online engineering courses?
The American Society for Engineering Education reports that Columbia University is to offer engineering courses through Coursera.
Mathematics for Engineering: Entry to Engineering Advisory Panel
Entry to Engineering Advisory Panel Mathematics is a subject of enormous importance to the education of engineers in all disciplines. This importance is illustrated by the fact the Engineering Professors'...
Output standards
In response to concerns expressed by Government, employers and the Engineering Council over the lack of a common format for the articulation of the output standards of engineering graduates, the...
Open access issues...
Two complementary reports were published in June addressing the issue of Open Access from different perspectives. Firstly the Finch Report âAccessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publicationsâ...
House of Lords Report: Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects: published 24 July 2012
âThe Government in their Plan for Growth attach great importance to education and hi-tech industry in order to create jobs and prosperity. The jobs of the future will increasingly require...
Preparing for the Comprehensive Spending Review
Event: CaSE Roundtable Discussion: Spending Review 2013 Date: 25th May, 2012 Speakers: Dr Graeme Reid, Head of Research Funding, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills  Professor Alan Hughes, Director...
HE STEM Programme: Designing the Future - Engineering Education Colloquia series (End of project case study)
A key objective of The Designing the Future project was to improve Engineering capability in the UK. The project sought to achieve this by presenting a concise and practical agenda...
Holly Else - "Learning to live with the reforms"
Holly Else has recently interviewed our President Professor Helen Atkinson, and her resulting published article entitled "Learning to live with the reforms" can be found here. Â
Paul Jump in Times Higher Education
Paul Jump has written an article in the 18th August 2011 issue of  Times Higher Education entitled âEngineering a solution to turbulenceâ.
Helen Atkinson in the Public Service Review
An article entitled âSomethingâs not adding upâ was written by EPC President, Professor Helen Atkinson and recently published in the Public Service Review: UK Science & Technology 03.
Helen Atkinson in Ingenia magazine
EPC President, Professor Helen Atkinson, has had an article - "The Wolf Review On Vocational Education" - published in the June 2011 edition of Ingenia magazine.
Consultation on: Green Paper - Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU research and innovation funding
This public consultation was launched on the basis of a Green Paper entitled âFrom Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU research and innovation fundingâ. Over 2.000...
Tony Unsworthâs letter to The Times
Read former President Tony Unsworthâs letter to The Times on the contribution of engineering degrees to widening career choices.