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Survey of HEIs on changes impacting engineering education 2026

General
1.Please identify your Department to ensure that we are not counting any duplicate responses
2.How many programmes does your Faculty/Department/School offer that are currently accredited by one or more Professional Engineering Institutions (PEIs) on behalf of the Engineering Council?
3.Does your Faculty/Department/School offer any unaccredited engineering degree pathways for students?
4.Has there been an increase in the number of students who are unable to progress or graduate from your Department's accredited degrees due to disruptors?
Compensation and Condonement
5.Have the Engineering Council rules on compensation and condonement resulted in your HEI not seeking accreditation for any programmes?
6.Have the Engineering Council rules on compensation and condonement resulted in your HEI adding additional non -accredited programme variants?
7.Has your Department obtained new or revised derogations from your standard university degree regulations in order to meet the Engineering Council's revised compensation and condonement policy?
Artificial Intelligence
8.Does your Department or HEI have any regulations or guidance in relation to the use of AI by students?
9.Does your Department or HEI have any regulations or guidance in relation to the use of AI by teaching staff?
10.What if any changes have been made to engineering curriculum in your Department in response to growth in AI?
11.What if any changes have been made to assessment of engineering students in your Department in response to growth in AI?
12.Are you teaching your students about the use of AI?
13.Are your teaching methods changing to make use of AI?
Barriers to and opportunities for maintaining/growing engineering provision
14.Is your Department making or likely to make changes in the short to medium term due to financial pressures?
15.Is your Department experiencing an increase in student numbers? Does this put a strain on resources?
16.What impact is this having on quality of teaching resources, etc?
17.Is your Department merging, reducing, replacing or adding programmes (perhaps differentiating by types, eg BEng, MEng, MSc?)
18.Is your Department delaying updating your labs due to lack of resources?
19.How, if at all do you think any changes are impacting on the quality of the student learning experience - and are the impacts positive or negative?
20.Do you have any further comments or questions you would like to raise?
21.If you are willing to be contacted further or would like to take part in any Engineering Council consultations, please confirm your name and email address.