4 Apr 2025

Government response to EPC over Level 7 apprenticeships

The EPC has received a response from the Rt Hon Baroness Jacqui Smith, Minister for Skills, in reply to a letter concerning postgraduate engineering apprenticeships. Last month, EPC Chief Executive...

4 Apr 2025

Latest news from the world of engineering

4th April 2025: £13.9 billion confirmed for government research funding   The Department of Science Innovation & Technology has announced its funding allocations for 2025/26 to the UK's research and...

3 Apr 2025

UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is launching an inquiry into Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry. The Government acknowledges that the UK “can...

27 May 2025

Designing proficiency-oriented assessment inventories for undergraduate mathematics teaching

A one-day in-person HE mathematics education workshop at Queen Mary University of London

1 Apr 2025

Policy Post: Spring 2025

Every term, the EPC Chief Executive, Johnny Rich, provides an update to EPC reps in each university and to the Heads & Deans Community about the big stories from the...

1 Apr 2025

Spotlight on ethics: Facial recognition for access and monitoring

This case involves an engineer hired to manage the development and installation of a facial recognition project.

27 Mar 2025

Spotlight on ethics: Recycled materials and the circular economy

What is circularity, and how does it relate to climate goals or environmental practice? 

26 Mar 2025

EPC responds to the Science, Innovation & Technology Committee Under the Microscope call

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee – a cross-party group of MPs who look at government policies on science, technology and innovation, and make recommendations for how these could be...

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