BIS announces "investment in postgraduate study"
£75 million investment in removing barriers to postgraduate study Students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be supported in postgraduate study with up to £125 million of extra funding, Universities and Science...
Universities UK International Conference: report from EPC Chair of EES working group
Our "roving reporter" Professor Clive Neal-Sturgess reports from the International Conference held at UUK last week. Well, the headline was that Europe is "back on the agenda" with the UK so heavily...
Education, Employability and Skills Committee (EES)
One of the EPC's standing committees reporting to the EPC Board, the Education, Employability & Skills Committee leads the EPC's work on all higher educational matters surrounding the content, outcomes...
Westminster Higher Education Forum - Implementing Open Access
Guest of Honour: Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford and Chair, UK Open Access Implementation Group Delegates at this timely seminar will assess the challenges and opportunities presented by...
The future for UK manufacturing - challenges ahead for policy following the Foresight Project
Westminster Business Forum Keynote Seminar The future for UK manufacturing - challenges ahead for policy following the Foresight Project with Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government...
International Conference on Manufacturing Research 2013
The 11th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2013) The International Conference on Manufacturing Research is a major event for academics and industrialists engaged in manufacturing research. Held annually in the UK...
2013 Manufacturing Professors Forum and Dinner
We now have a strong programme for our 10th annual meeting around the theme ‘The Future of Manufacturing’. Speakers will include the manufacturing heads from BIS, EPSRC and TSB, industrialists from...
Summary: estimating the ability of UK university engineering departments to double their capacity to respond to the demand for trained engineers
Take a look at the analysis of the results poll here.
Funded young researchers refused entry to UK, professional body warns
Jack Grove, Times Higher Education, reports on EPC's concerns about the impact of the visa regulations on research capacity "Funded young researchers refused entry to UK, professional body warns" (30...
Engineering Professors' Council Annual Congress 2006
The Engineering Professors' Council Annual Congress 2006 was held at the University of Staffordshire between the 3rd and 5th April.