Heywood, J. (2012, June), The Response of Higher and Technological Education to Changing Patterns of Employment  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22091

\bibitem{asee_peer_22091}
  Heywood, J. (2012, June), \emph{The Response of Higher and Technological Education to Changing Patterns of Employment}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--22091

John Heywood.  "The Response of Higher and Technological Education to Changing Patterns of Employment".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/22091 Internet.  07 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_22091}
  John Heywood.
  "The Response of Higher and Technological Education to Changing Patterns of Employment".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/22091 Internet.  07 Apr, 2025

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AB  - Engineering at the Cross Roads. Implications for Educational PolicyMakersEducational policy making is seldom discussed at meetings of engineering educators exceptin so far as they relate to implementation, as for example the response to ABET 2000 in theUnited States or the Bologna agreement in Europe. Worse evaluation of such policies is oftenhaphazard and changes in the curriculum are often predicated by technological change. Someare large such as the development of computer science and technology courses, the need forbio-engineering relevant courses etc. Some are small and the process of curriculum change isa continuous flow of small changes. Policy makers in most countries try to look ahead, as forexample “The Engineer of 2020” but such reports are based on current outlook and currentpredictions. Present polices for higher education are predicated on the belief that a highlyqualified engineering and scientific manpower is required and that specified numbers ofengineers and scientists are required to maintain economic wealth. This had contributed to thegrowth of specialisms: but, in recent years it has become evident that the axioms on whicheducational programmes of this nature are constructed no longer hold. First, jobs are nolonger for life and it is held that people have to be much more flexible. Second, there is thepossibility that the axiom that new technologies necessarily create new jobs is breakingdown. These are broad issues that have not been tackled by those responsible for highereducation policy and by implication engineering education policy makers. The purpose ofthis paper is to consider the implications of technologically structured social change for thehigher education curriculum and, in particular, engineering literacy.
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