28 Jul 2016

About the Placements Toolkits

Our two Placements Toolkits (previously Contextual Learning Toolkits) are the result of the research conducted to address the recommendations of the Perkins Review of Engineering Skills and the Royal Academy...

27 Jul 2016

Placements Toolkits: Your placement journey - Toolkit for students

This toolkit is designed to support you to get the best from your placement experience. It will help you to think about your placement, looking at your expectations, recognising your...

27 Jul 2016

Placements Toolkits: Engineering placements – Toolkit 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,...

25 Jul 2016

Your placement journey: Placement experiences

Your Placement Journey Toolkit is designed to support you to get the best from your placement experience. It will help you to think about your placement, looking at your expectations,...

25 Jul 2016

Your placement journey: After placement - Advice for students

Your Placement Journey Toolkit is designed to support you to get the best from your placement experience. It will help you to think about your placement, looking at your expectations,...

25 Jul 2016

Engineering placements: After 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,...

25 Jul 2016

Engineering placements: During 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, designed...

21 Jul 2016

Case study: The advantages of offering degree apprenticeships - Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, University of Sheffield

Degree Apprenticeships Toolkit Case study: Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield has been an early entrant to this new form of higher learning. Its Advanced...

19 Jul 2016

Could your students inspire the engineers of the future?

Teaching physics is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind as a career for an engineering graduate. However, it is a rewarding, valuable and important occupation and engineers...

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...

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