Free RAeS Education and Skills Seminar - 'Where are we now? Pre-election update on skills landscape'
The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Education and Skills annual Spring seminar will take place on Monday 23 March at our London HQ, No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ. Themed, “Where are we...
REF funding implications starting to be announced...
With the Grant letter now issued, we're awaiting the announcements about how the quality-related research funding will be divvie'd up between institutions based on the latest REF results. The Scottish...
Westminster Higher Education Forum - addressing the STEM skills gap
I was pleased to be invited to represent Engineering Professors’ Council members at the Westminster Higher Education Forum last week, on the subject of "Addressing the STEM Skills Gap". I...
Royal Academy of Engineering: Dowling Review of Business University Collaboration
A review examining how government can support the devlelopment of more effective collaborations between business and university researchers in he UK.
HEFCE: The future of quality assessment in Higher Education
The higher education funding bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland invited views on the future of quality assessment in higher education. This first stage sought to attain views on...
Tuition fee bursaries available for MScs - still time to apply
A reminder that tuition fee bursaries for aerospace engineering MScs are still available for study starting in academic year 2015-16, after which this scheme will close. Each worth up to...
New RAeS Spring fair - Career FLIGHTPATH LIVE
Visitor registration is now open for the Royal Aeronautical Society’s new Spring recruitment fair, Career FLIGHTPATH LIVE 2015 taking place at our HQ on Friday 6 March 2015. Careers FLIGHTPATH...
Student IP – Creating an IP savvy workforce Paintworks, Bristol
This Intellectual Property Office (IPO) event will be held on 5th March 2015 at Paintworks, Bristol. The event will be a celebration of entrepreneurial spirit and provides an opportunity to...
13th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2015)
Follow link for the call for papers. For more information, please follow the link http://www.icmr.org.uk/
Fees for PhD programmes...a question...
Fees for doctoral students (ie home / EU PhDs) seem to be about £4k pa for the few universities I have looked at. Yet, fees for home / EU undergrad...
EPC sectoral group Association of Civil Engineering Departments (ACED) Conference 2015
Download programme Accommodation We have reserved accommodation for delegates at a special rate in the Orchard Hotel, which is on campus adjacent to the conference centre. Please see the “more...
Council of Professors and Heads of Computing Conference 2015
For details of the conference, follow the link https://cphc.ac.uk/conferences-and-agms/
Royal Society-CaSE Science Ministers' Debate 2015
Engineering Professors' Council incoming President Professor Stephanie Haywood and Executive Director Susan Kay attended CaSE's Science Ministers' debate at the Royal Society, on 14th January. Some lively questioning - including one...
OfQual: The assessment of practical work in GCSE science
This consultation sets out proposals for how practical work in new GCSE science qualifications due to be taught from 2016 should be assessed. This is a consultation about the assessment...