Green skills for Green Jobs Summit
The summit will bring together key stakeholders from government, business and academia to establish how the UK is preparing to take the lead in the global green skills race. Whilst...
HEA STEM: New to Teaching (NTT) residential workshop
This two-day residential workshop is intended for teaching staff who are newly-appointed within the last three years to an academic post in materials and engineering subjects at UK HEIs. The...
HEA STEM: Transitions, employability and professional identity: case study in architecture
The seminar will showcase and reflect on learning activities with level 4 architecture students to introduce them both to higher education and the construction of a professional identity. It will...
International Conference on Manufacturing Research 2012
The International Conference on Manufacturing Research 2012 will take place on the 11-13 September 2012 at Aston University. There will be a strong emphasis on industrial relevance and senior executives...
Output standards
In response to concerns expressed by Government, employers and the Engineering Council over the lack of a common format for the articulation of the output standards of engineering graduates, the...
Open access issues...
Two complementary reports were published in June addressing the issue of Open Access from different perspectives. Firstly the Finch Report “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications”...
House of Lords Report: Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects: published 24 July 2012
“The Government in their Plan for Growth attach great importance to education and hi-tech industry in order to create jobs and prosperity. The jobs of the future will increasingly require...
Our objectives
The Engineering Professors’ Council is a body comprising and representing engineering in the UK’s universities We seek to: Increase the visibility of engineering in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), their...
Preparing for the Comprehensive Spending Review
Event: CaSE Roundtable Discussion: Spending Review 2013 Date: 25th May, 2012 Speakers: Dr Graeme Reid, Head of Research Funding, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Professor Alan Hughes, Director...
HE STEM Programme: Designing the Future - Engineering Education Colloquia series (End of project case study)
A key objective of The Designing the Future project was to improve Engineering capability in the UK. The project sought to achieve this by presenting a concise and practical agenda...
Holly Else - "Learning to live with the reforms"
Holly Else has recently interviewed our President Professor Helen Atkinson, and her resulting published article entitled "Learning to live with the reforms" can be found here.
