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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.