Articles

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.

IPPR call for evidence on “The Future of Higher Education in England”

Online engineering courses?

The American Society for Engineering Education reports that Columbia University is to offer engineering courses through Coursera.

OfQual consultation on A level reform

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 “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications”...

House of Lords Report: Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects: published 24 July 2012

“The 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...

House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee: Engineering Skills Enquiry

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.  

Response to HEFCE funding consultation

UCAS admissions process review

House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee: HE in STEM subjects

HE White Paper consultation - EPC response

BIS Regulatory Framework consultation

REF consultation

Paul Jump in Times Higher Education

Paul Jump has written an article in the 18th August 2011 issue of  Times Higher Education entitled ‘Engineering a solution to turbulence’.

Helen Atkinson in the Public Service Review

An article entitled “Something’s not adding up” 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 ‘From Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU research and innovation funding’. Over 2.000...

Tony Unsworth’s letter to The Times

Read former President Tony Unsworth’s letter to The Times on the contribution of engineering degrees to widening career choices.