Engineering Professor’s Council

International Working Group

Report to EPC Committee 12th December 2007 – CEN-S

• The agreed final minutes of the QAA Closed meeting will be available at the Committee meeting for discussion.
• A brief business meeting was held after the ECuk International Seminar on 21st November 2007
• Progress on issues discussed
• Dr Lloyd Anderson of the British Council could not attend
• CEN-S gave a brief report on the Closed QAA meeting
• It was agreed to hold a one day event by invitation on the 16th or 18th June in collaboration with ECuk, RAEng etc.
• Members attended ECuk International Seminar, an enormous range of activities covered including:
• Qualifications equivalence: European/EURACE and Global
• NARIC, International Engineering Alliance, FEANI
• Mutual recognition implementation, Mobility Directive, EngCard etc.
• Bologna: Shaping the Agenda 28th November2007-12-05
• FJM and CENS attended
• Potentially a very important meeting that did not meet its objectives
• A large amount of information presented to senior University managers, which we already knew
• Break outs groups were of varying quality
• Very powerful panel including Bill Rammell, who came late and had to go early
• Not much “Shaping of the agenda” apparent!
• Most important point to me was the importance of “the student experience”