A presentation from the STEM Annual Conference 2012.
A case record is given of over 50 professional engineers undertaking a fully work-based engineering MSc under the Engineering Council's "Engineering Gateways" scheme whilst working full time. The scheme provides flexible learning off-campus for engineering practitioners in collaboration with their employers. Academic learning and assessment are built around the projects they are undertaking at their workplace. The MSc assignments are also structured to demonstrate competence requirements for Chartered Engineer registration CEng. Engineers seeking CEng need to demonstrate masters level learning to their Professional Engineering Institution.
This paper presents an evaluation of factors influencing the successful progress of participants/students over the first 4 years of the "Gateways" scheme at Kingston University London the lead university for the scheme.
