Aviation Centres of Excellence: Developing Tomorrow's workforce for a global community
The aviation industry is under transformation. New technologies are making flying faster, safer, less noisy and more sustainable. These innovations, however, require new skills. How can we equip the workers...
New Approaches in Practice
As part of the EPC's New Approaches to Engineering Higher Education initiative, run jointly with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), we will be holding a conference on 18...
Research grants and contracts income
Research grants and contracts income tells us about the sources of research funding. In 2017–18, 23.4% of UK research funding came from international sources. EU funding, which makes up more...
AAU Odyssey
To be held at the University of Hertfordshire. Follow links for more details and map.
Degree classification
An established regular in university league tables, good honours degrees have, more recently, been in the spotlight as the media and sector grapple with the notion of “grade inflation” and the...
New! DATA BLOG: Grade inflation?
Earlier this month, the OfS published a new release of degree classification data, concluding that the growing proportion of the first and upper second class degrees awarded cannot be fully...
UK and Ireland 7th Engineering Education Research Network Annual Symposium
The UK & Ireland EERN are pleased to announce their 7th Annual Symposium will be hosted by WMG & the School of Engineering, University of Warwick in December this year....
RA Committee meeting
The next Recruitment and Admissions Committee meeting will be in the Hopper Room at the IET, Savoy Place, London
Blending arts and sciences: gimmick or necessity?
The two culture of arts and sciences are like oil and water, but, asks Prof Mehmet Karamanoglu, could they be mixed? Indeed, perhaps it's essential that we get them to...
Augar arrives
EPC Chief Executive, Johnny Rich reports on the long-awaited Review of Post-18 Education Funding in England and the possible implications for engineering in HE. At over 200 pages and featuring...
Guest blog: Compensation and condonement - incoming rules for accredited degrees
By Catherine Elliott, Engineering Council The Engineering Council has updated its policy on compensation and condonement[1], which has resulted in new rules being put in place. The key consideration in...
Engineering Professors' Council Annual Congress 2019
The Engineering Professors' Council Annual Congress 2019 took place from 13th May to 15th May at UCL Engineering Education. This year's congress theme was Engineering Change: surviving and shaping the...
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Future frameworks for international collaboration on research and innovation: call for evidence
This consultation ran from April to May 2019. In March 2019, Professor Sir Adrian Smith was commissioned by BEIS to provide independent advice on the design of future UK funding...
