19 Jul 2016

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – Accelerated courses and switching university or degree

This call for evidence ran from May 2016 to July 2016. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills aimed to gauge demand from students for more switching between universities and...

12 Jul 2016

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – Teaching Excellence Framework. Technical consultation for year 2

This consultation ran from May to July 2016. This consultation sought to attain views on the detailed proposals for the operation of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in year 2,...

18 Nov 2016 - 19 Nov 2016

Engineering Inspiration: WES Student Conference 2016

The WES Annual student conference is open to female engineering students, mainly UG but also some PG. It is ideal for networking with fellow students, potential employers and young professional female engineers....

6 Jul 2016

EPC Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit

[toolkit_landing_page_search]In September 2015 the first university-business co-developed Degree Apprenticeship programmes were launched - having been designed and eligible for funding under the government’s new model for apprenticeship training. [caption id="attachment_114600"...

6 Jul 2016

Are there specific requirements an HEI needs to be aware of when planning the delivery of degree apprenticeships?

Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit Degree Apprentices must be employed for a minimum of 30 hours per week and must have the right to live and work in the UK.  A Degree...

6 Jul 2016

Designing a degree apprenticeship programme

Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit It is important to recognise that a successful degree apprenticeship programme has to be founded on a strong and real partnership between an employer (or group of...

6 Jul 2016

Degree apprenticeships: Why should we get involved?

Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit There have been recent reports that graduate recruitment will flatten off and apprenticeship recruitment will increase by 23 per cent. Reports from the Skills Funding Agency (SFA)...

6 Jul 2016

What is a higher or degree apprenticeship?

Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit Higher apprenticeships refer to all apprenticeships which include the achievement of academic and vocational qualifications and learning from level 4 up to bachelor’s and master’s degrees at...

5 Jul 2016

Placements Toolkits

[toolkit_landing_page_search]Our two Placements Toolkits (previously Contextual Learning Toolkits) address the recommendations of the Perkins Review of Engineering Skills and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Universe of Engineering Report about engineering...

21 Oct 2016

The John Barnes Student Conference

As in recent years, the AAU will be running the John Barnes Conference for students who have just completed an Individual Project on their degree; however, this year we are...

28 Jun 2016

Professor Helen Atkinson among ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering’

An inaugural list of the top 50 Women in Engineering, featuring former EPC President and University of Leicester Head of Engineering Professor Helen Atkinson, was published in the Daily Telegraph...

25 Jun 2016

Engineering placements: Before placement - Advice for universities and employers

The Engineering Placements Toolkit is designed to support higher education institutions and employers to enhance the experience and the value of students’ placements. Aligned with the Your Placement Journey Toolkit,...

15 Jun 2016

“Children as Engineers – Paired Peer Mentors in Primary Schools”

EPC’s Engaging in Engineering Public Engagement Grant Award 2014 At its 2014 Congress, the Engineering Professors' Council launched a public engagement funding call: Engaging in Engineering.  One of the two winning projects...

3 Jun 2016

Challenges of introducing and designing new engineering programmes...

Grant Campbell and Daniel Belton at the University of Huddersfield have just published this useful paper about introducing a new programme in a high cost subject at a time of...

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