Engineering placements: During placement - Advice for universities and employers
The Engineering Placements Toolkit is designed to support higher education institutions and employers to enhance the experience and the value of students’ placements. Aligned with the Your Placement Journey toolkit, designed...
Could your students inspire the engineers of the future?
Teaching physics is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind as a career for an engineering graduate. However, it is a rewarding, valuable and important occupation and engineers...
EPC Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit
[toolkit_landing_page_search]In September 2015 the first university-business co-developed Degree Apprenticeship programmes were launched - having been designed and eligible for funding under the government’s new model for apprenticeship training. [caption id="attachment_114600"...
Are there specific requirements an HEI needs to be aware of when planning the delivery of degree apprenticeships?
Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit Degree Apprentices must be employed for a minimum of 30 hours per week and must have the right to live and work in the UK. A Degree...
Designing a degree apprenticeship programme
Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit It is important to recognise that a successful degree apprenticeship programme has to be founded on a strong and real partnership between an employer (or group of...
Degree apprenticeships: Why should we get involved?
Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit There have been recent reports that graduate recruitment will flatten off and apprenticeship recruitment will increase by 23 per cent. Reports from the Skills Funding Agency (SFA)...
What is a higher or degree apprenticeship?
Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit Higher apprenticeships refer to all apprenticeships which include the achievement of academic and vocational qualifications and learning from level 4 up to bachelor’s and master’s degrees at...
Placements Toolkits
[toolkit_landing_page_search]Our two Placements Toolkits (previously Contextual Learning Toolkits) address the recommendations of the Perkins Review of Engineering Skills and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Universe of Engineering Report about engineering...
Your placement journey: Before placement - Advice for students
Your Placement Journey Toolkit is designed to support you to get the best from your placement experience. It will help you to think about your placement, looking at your expectations,...
HE White Paper: Success as a Knowledge Economy published
The much-anticipated Wakeham and Shadbolt Reviews were published this week (16th May) alongside the Higher Education White Paper giving the sector much to chew over. To read the HE White...
The Engenius Guide to film making - Emma Carter
EPC funded Engaging in Engineering project.
Our position on the TEF
Thanks to all those who took the time to let us have their thoughts on the proposals for the Teaching Excellence Framework - and particularly to those who took part...
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Inquiry into quality assessment in Higher Education
The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee launched an inquiry into quality assessment in Higher Education (HE). The inquiry looked into proposed changes to quality assessment in universities and the...
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) - have your say
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) As we write, we’re still waiting for the much-trailed Green Paper from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which, alongside other issues which we’re...
World Congress on Engineering Education
This Congress is organized by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations – Committee of Education in Engineering (WFEO-CEIE) in collaboration with the Federation of Lebanese Engineers (FLE), the Federation of...