Data blog: Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
The annual UCAS release last week prompted headlines celebrating a surge in 18-year-olds applying for UK engineering degrees. Indeed, the core numbers for the 2025 January Equal Consideration application deadline...
Navigating complexity: Strategic foresight for Engineering education
A guest blog from Dr Gert Jan Scheurwater, Director of Strategy and Foresight at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands [caption id="attachment_133461" align="alignleft" width="250"] Dr Gert Jan Scheuerwater, TU Delft[/caption] For...
EPC responds to inquiry into International students in English universities
The Education Committee has launched an inquiry to examine the changes in numbers of international students in recent years, the impact of international students on university funding and availability of places...
Education Committee inquiry into International students in English universities
The EPC response to this consultation is available here. The Education Committee has launched an inquiry into international students in English universities. The inquiry will examine the changes in numbers...
Brexit impact on UK’s engineering education sector
We are pleased to announce the publication of the EPC’s joint study with UCL’s Centre for Engineering Education on the experiences and perceptions of European (EU) engineering students and academic...
What’s going on with UK Research Funding?
The government has a stated goal of achieving 2.4% of the UK’s GDP to be spent annually on research and development (R&D) by 2027. This would be an increase of...
What is Engineering? Subject coding: HECoS, JACS and engineering, an unofficial guide
If you follow the HE data environment, or even just the policy headlines, you’ll probably have noticed that a new subject coding system - the Higher Education Classification of Subjects...
Professional recognition post-Brexit
Is my professional title still valid in the EU? Will my combination of academic qualifications and professional experience still count post Brexit? What does the information on recognition of professional...
Media release: University engineers across the UK commit expertise and equipment to join coronavirus struggle
Media Release Tales are emerging of the many ways that universities across the UK have stepped up to beat coronavirus and Engineering departments in particular have been at the forefront,...
How will the probable collapse in international student numbers as a result of coronavirus affect UK Engineering departments? We’ve crunched the numbers.
We’ve all seen the higher education and national media coverage on the uncertainty around this year’s university admissions following the cancellation of exams and the extended UK-wide lockdown. The worldwide...
Brexit impact on UK’s engineering education sector: Exploring EU students and staff experiences
The Engineering Professors’ Council and the UCL Centre for Engineering Education are running a research project, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, that seeks to address and understand the...
Brexit
Higher education engineering is a major internationally recognised and competitive UK asset. Engineering relies on non-UK collaboration more than most academic disciplines in terms of both research projects and attracting...
COMEH Annual Conference
The International Conference on Manufacturing Research will be held 11-13 September at University of Skövde, Sweden. This is the first time the conference has been held outside the UK. The...
DATA BLOG: UCAS Engineering applications down but applications from women up
UCAS’ latest application data released today gives us a first glimpse into this Autumn’s enrolments into HE (15 January deadline). Applications to Engineering (totalling 144½ thousand) are down by 1.7%...
SEFI/CESAER European Convention for Engineering Deans, Directors and Departments Heads - A University Dialogue
The 9th edition of the SEFI/CESAER European Convention for Engineering Deans, Directors and Departments Heads - A University Dialogue will be hosted and organised by the Technical University of Munich (TUM)...