HEA STEM Event (Engineering and Materials): Workshop for postgraduate students who teach
The day will include sessions on: Assessment and Feedback, OER (Open Educational Resources), Teaching for Diversity, Facilitating Small Group Teaching, & Professional Development and the HEA.
HEA Event: Building Confident Engineers
Successful engineering graduates require confidence in order to solve new problems, work with colleagues and excel in their careers. It has also been identified that confident engineering graduates are more...
AiME
A forum for academic in mechanical engineering Academics in Mechanical EngineeringĀ (AiME) is a Sectoral Group of the Engineering Professors' Council (EPC). We aim to act as a forum for the...
Gove launches technology focused Tech-bacc as vocational equivalent to A levels
Michael Gove has announced the technical baccalaureate qualification āproviding an alternative to the A level study route for post-16 educationā. It will be introduced for courses beginning in September 2014,...
Engineering Professors' Council Annual Congress 2013
The Engineering Professors' Council Annual Congress 2013 took place at the University of Portsmouth on 16/17 April 2013 with the theme: Engineering in Higher Education: Investing for Impact.
Report on Government spending on science...
While we all welcome the additional funding announced for science and engineering when other Government departments are seeing cuts, CaSE have published anĀ interim analysis of Government spending on science since...
David Willetts' speech to HEFCE Conference
David Willetts: Higher Education Funding Council for England 2013 HEFCE 18 April 2013 Speech Originally given at Imperial College London. You donāt need me to tell you that this year...
HE Academy event: Changing the Learning Landscape - Social Media in Engineering & Mathematics
Academic staff who teach or directly manage degree programmes in the Engineering & Mathematics disciplines are invited to book onto the Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) workshop āSocial Media in...
New report published: The Dual Funding Structure for Research in the UK: Research Council and Funding Council Allocation Methods and the Pathways to Impact of UK Academics
Commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION AND SKILLS (BIS) and carried out by THE CENTRE FOR BUSINESS RESEARCH (CBR) AND THE UK INNOVATION RESEARCH CENTRE (UK~IRC), this report analyses...
EPC Annual General Meeting
The 19th Annual General Meeting of the Engineering Professorsā Council will be held in the Portland Building, University of Portsmouth, PO1 3AH on Tuesday 16 April, 2013 at 16:00 during...
Why we MUST change the new Design and Technology programme of study...
The Government's proposed draft Design and Technology programme of study would be a huge backward step for a subject that develops vital skills that young people need for the future....
Recruitment and Admissions Committee (RAC)
One of the EPCās standing committees reporting to the EPC Board, theĀ Recruitment & Admissions Committee leads the EPCās work on policy and practice relating to who becomes an engineering student...