Engineering Council Annual Review 2025 - Flipbook - Page 11
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Diversity
& inclusion
Achievements
in 2025
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) remained
central to our work in 2025, reflecting our
commitment to a profession that is fair, accessible
and representative of the society it serves. We
published our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
statement on 23 June, coinciding with International
Women in Engineering Day, reaffirming our ambition
to support a more diverse, equitable and inclusive
registrant community.
As part of preparations to revise the UK Standard
for Engineering Competence and Commitment
(UK-SPEC) and the Standards for recognised
engineering education programmes, we undertook
a review of several key topics related to our strategic
themes, which included how EDI is reflected within
our Standards. This was conducted through a series
of thematic workshops with stakeholders, notably
a session focused on ethics, inclusion and human
factors, ensuring that future Standards are informed
by a broad range of perspectives and lived experience.
We published new Guidance on Recognised
Programmes and Reasonable Adjustments,
responding to emerging developments and queries,
including those arising from neurodiversity research.
The guidance was developed through consultation
with task-and-finish groups and recommended
for use by the Education and Skills Advisory Panel
before being formally approved by the Registration
Standards Committee. Since publication, it has
already supported consistent and proportionate
responses to individual queries.
Our EDI Working Group continued to meet,
developing a stakeholder and initiative map to
identify where there are gaps that are appropriate for
the Engineering Council to fill. This enabled the group
to agree a roadmap, including work that will inform
our Standards and guidance development, and has
helped to shape our new Strategy 2030. Our Board
of Trustees also participated in a workshop aimed at
understanding their role in driving and championing
our EDI ambitions.
We also participated in the third round of the Royal
Academy of Engineering and Science Council-led EDI
Progression Framework, involving an organisationwide review of our operations through an EDI lens.
This confirmed that actions in our EDI roadmap are the
right ones to progress our strategic work, while also
identifying some quick-win actions.
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