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The National Engineering Programme
 In line with the Government’s
ten year plan for science and engineering, The Royal
Academy of Engineering is managing and overseeing
the National Engineering Programme (NEP). Funded by
the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
and others, the Programme aims to change the face of
engineering higher education.
The National Engineering
Programme recognises the connection between
engineering and society. By promoting the
development of attractive engineering courses in
local universities and filling those courses with
students with aptitude, it intends to change the
face of UK higher education in engineering, widening
participation and strengthening engineering as a
strategic subject.
The Programme is a
partnership. The Academy is joined by science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
enrichment specialists such as SETNET, the
Smallpeice Trust and Young Engineers, Higher
Education Institutions such as London South Bank
University and the Cambridge-MIT Institute and other
STEM enrichment schemes. Together, they will seek to
make engineering degree courses gender inclusive,
relevant to the needs of society, and hence more
attractive to a wider community of students.
The London Engineering
Project, the London phase of The National
Engineering Programme, launched in September 2006 to
widen participation in engineering in the capital
and there are four target groups: women, students
from families with no experience of higher
education, black and minority ethnic students and
adult learners.
After creating a successful
working model with the London pilot project, the
programme will then extend to six other cities in
England.
The prospectus ‘Strengthening
Engineering Education’ is available to download
here.
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