Our December issue of Engage is now available, pulling together all the headline news from the previous couple of months, including:
?? The publication of the competence tables for The UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence and Commitment contextualised for Higher-Risk Buildings (UK-SPEC HRB). These detail how competence and commitment requirements apply to HRB registration and provide a shared framework for a range of engineering disciplines to deliver safe buildings throughout the building life cycle. A very important milestone that supports the recommendations from Dame Judith Hackitt’s Building A Safer Future report following the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017.
?? The launch of our new 'Guidance Note on supporting neurodivergent applicants for registration' which has been written by an Engineering Council working group composed of practising engineers with lived experience of neurodivergent traits and conditions, and Licensee staff working on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and related topics.
?? Details on the UK Professional Qualifications Act 2022 (PQ Act) which came into force on 1 December 2023. The PQ Act, as announced by the Government’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT), revokes the UK version of the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/2059).?As engineering is regarded as a Chartered Profession that is not regulated in law, from 1 December, the Engineering Council and Licensees will be free to maintain pathways for recognition for professionals from the EU/EEA without any additional requirements in law.
?? Former Labour and Conservative ministers Lord Knight and Lord Willetts, with support from our colleagues at EngineeringUK, have launched a five-point plan for growing and sustaining engineering and technology apprenticeships for young people. Recognising the critical importance of engineering and technology for the UK and the sector’s growing workforce needs, the new report is the culmination of a comprehensive inquiry that aims to find solutions to reverse the decline in apprenticeship starts that have been seen in the sector over recent years.
?? News that EngC registrants were among the recipients of several recent PEI awards including Professor Tom Crick MBE PhD FHEA FBCS CEng CSci FAcSS, one of three recipients of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Lovelace Medal and Daniel Wei Liang Vong BEng (Hons) BSc IEng MIET, Director at BAWA Cane and Professor Wai Yie Leong CEng FIET, Pro-Vice Chancellor at INTI International University, who were among the world’s top 11 engineers and technologists recognised at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Awards, which were held on 20 October in London.
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