Impact acceleration accounts
15 November, 2012 Business Secretary Vince Cable today announced a £60m investment in UK universities to help our most pioneering scientists and engineers create successful businesses from their research, improve...
House of Lords Science and Technology committee: Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects Report
In December 2011, The House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Willis of Knaresborough, opened an inquiry into higher education in STEM subjects (science, technology,...
A level reform
The Engineering Professors' Council response was one of the almost 1,000 submissions to this consultation which ran for 3 months over the summer of this year. The summary report of...
The Future of Postgraduate Education
Westminster Higher Education Forum 17 October 2012: The Future for Postgraduate Education There is clearly widespread concern about the lack of progress on funding for postgraduate education. On 17th October,...
Recruitment and Admissions Forum 2012
The Recruitment and Admissions Forum took place at the Royal Academy of Engineering on 7th November 2012. The theme was "Uncertain times in university recruitment and admissions: protecting the future...
Event downloads
9 November, 2016 Institution of Mechanical Engineers Recruitment and Admissions Forum Download presentations 11 November, 2015 Institution of Mechanical Engineers Recruitment and Admissions Forum Download presentations 10 November, 2014 Institution...
Osborne support for new vocational qualifications
Published: 12:10am, 2nd November 2012 Updated: 11:07am, 2nd November 2012 New vocational qualifications in engineering will help Britain thrive in the global economy, Chancellor George Osborne has said. The Royal...
House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee - oral evidence on engineering skills
On 24th October 2012, the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee heard oral evidence on the inquiry into engineering skills. "We compete in a high labour cost economy;...
We need more engineers...
"We desperately need more engineers..." said James Dyson in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme in September. "The main problem is that we're not graduating enough engineers..." Listen...
Improving social mobility...
The Milburn Report: University Challenge: How Higher Education Can Advance Social Mobility was published earlier this month. In it, the importance of foundation degrees in supporting those from disadvantaged social...
Congress 2007
The 2007 Congress was held at the University of Leeds between the 27th and 28th March. The themes were Admissions, Industry & Engineering Education Collaboration and Sustainability & Engineering Practices.The...
Useful policy papers and other publications
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...but a somewhat different situation in university recruitment of engineering professors in the US compared with the UK...
Purdue University plans to hire more than 100 new engineering professors and boost engineering enrolment by 10 percent over the next five years to help move the school to the...
Messages about maths education and the contribution of engineering to the economy are the same over the pond...
One of the aerospace industry's most respected leaders said Wednesday that government and industry badly need to take steps to reform the U.S. education system to dramatically boost teaching of...